EOC Week 8: The Power Behind the Throne

On-job training: An individualized (one-on-one) training approach in which a knowledgeable and skilled trainer teaches a less-experienced staff member how to perform tasks required for a position.(page 216, HR book) 

When having a sufficient job with well trained employees, is asset to your company. However, having the opposite of a well trained employee will bring your asset of the company down, because that employee will be looked at to represent your company, all our employees are like that. So, if you have one bad employee then your company can go sour. Which is why On-job training is so important, it can help the new employees understand exactly what is required of them, and give the older more experience employees a chance to train and reteach themselves what they already know, to help them move up within the company. 

"There are several advantages to on-job training: 
It incorporates basic adult learning principles, It provides maximum realism, It provides immediate feedback, It can be used to train new and experienced staff, It is frequently delivered by peers who regularly perform the task, It is well accepted by trainees" (page 218, HR book) 

When training a new employee you need to think about the idea of presentation, when the 'trainer' is showing the 'trainee' around, you need to make sure its a good one, because you don't want to get the wrong impression to the 'trainee' about the job. Going around, and having other employees, mentioning to the 'trainee' that they are going to end up hating this job, is not good. And letting them know all the gossip, the mangers are all men, and being treated differently because you are a woman is sexism, not right. Within any kind of business, I feel that a man and a woman should be treated the same, no matter the circumstances. 

"In today's increasingly diverse workforce, staff members with widely different backgrounds and experiences bring a broad range of perspectives to a decision-making process. Creative trainers can use this diversity to improve training. Training exercises can allow trainees to brainstorm how a training point could be applied in a work situation, alternative solutions to case study or role-play exercise issues, or about the development and/or conduct of out-of-session projects." 

(page 246, HR book)

If you think about the work place today you will realize that now and days, there is a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds, that can help in-hence the creativity of the company giving them an advantage to their competitors, so sitting around asking not only the management but also the work place for a little brainstorming, to help gain more of an asset to the business, to help get the juices flowing in a creative way and to have your employees love working there because they know that you care.