The workplace is progressively becoming a place where organizations can foster, enhance, and encourage the potential and capabilities of employees. One way in which organizations foster these talents is by implementing training and development programs with the goal of preparing employees to better meet the challenges of today’s competitive workplace. However, unless training programs are … [Read more...]
HRD Is Essential to an Organization’s Overall Corporate Strategy
Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) refers to the future aspirations and plans of the organization with regard to human capital. SHRM includes efforts on behalf of the management that employ a course of action for the recruitment and professional development of human capital and the alignment of worker interests with strategic organizational objectives. Expectations from Human Capital It … [Read more...]
The Instructional Design Process
Instructional Development or Instructional Design (ID) is training design. ID is associated with the systematic approach of analyzing human performance problems, identifying the underlying causes of those problems or gaps in performance, choosing solutions that address performance gaps, and implementing interventions such as training, performance support tools, organizational restructure, and … [Read more...]
The Seven Phases of Instructional Design
Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. Instructional Development or Instructional Design (ID) is training design. ID is associated with the systematic approach of analyzing human performance problems, identifying the underlying causes of those problems or gaps in performance, choosing solutions that address performance gaps, and implementing interventions such as training, performance support tools, … [Read more...]
Organizations Are Focusing Their Attention in the Direction of HRD
Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. Human Resource Development (HRD) Professionals are responsible for encouraging employees to participate in performance management and customer satisfaction. This is accomplished by creating and implementing a system that identifies competencies, established goals, and projects the expected outcome. Establishing a problem-solving procedure and setting standards for … [Read more...]
Developing an Effective Plan for an Audience Analysis
Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. An audience analysis is needed to identify the characteristics that affect trainee learning. The analysis includes information about learners' educational background, previous training/learning experiences, relevant work experiences, and motivation for training/learning. This information helps instructional designers customize training for the intended … [Read more...]
Conducting an Instructional Analysis
The Analysis Phase of the ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate) instructional design model is the basis for all other phases of instructional design. This phase can be broken down into Performance Analysis, Instructional Analysis, Audience Analysis, and Delineate Objectives. This article discusses conducting an instructional analysis. Following a performance analysis where … [Read more...]
The ADDIE Instructional Design Process
Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. Instructional design refers to the process of instructional program development from beginning to end. There are many instructional design models for use by different levels of instructional designers and for different instructional purposes. The instructional design process can be condensed into five phases, commonly known as ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, … [Read more...]
Learning Theory Is The Basis from Which Instructional Design Theory Is Drawn
Adult learning theory primarily focuses on how adults learn. It is founded on the assumptions that adult learners concentrate more on the processes rather than contents. This is because adults bring in real life experiences to the learning environment. Malcolm Shepherd Knowles (1913-1997) had a significant influence on the field of adult education. He was determined to discuss the fact that adults … [Read more...]
Ten Tips for Delivering Engaging Training Sessions to Adults
When delivering training sessions to adults take into consideration that adults often have many other concerns that they could be thinking about during this time. If they are not effectively engaged in your training session, they could “shut down” and direct their focus to those other concerns. Below are ten tips on maintaining effectively engaged adult learners: #1 – Start the Training … [Read more...]