Training Transfer

INTERVIEW: SUNITA RANI DISCUSSES HER TRANSFER DESIGN PROGRAM EXPERIENCE Sunita is a Professor at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration and oversees designing and delivering programs related to Organisational Behaviour and helps others in the Academy to design better programs too. WHAT IS THE TRANSFER DESIGN PROGRAM? The Transfer Design Program is for HRD professionals, L&D consultants, training designers…

Before we discuss the fairytale of the self-directed learner, let’s begin with a story of our own. Margret is a personnel developer at a retail company. She’s just finished a six-month project, uploading 30 videos to the company’s learning platform on ‘best practice tips for sales’. The e-learning consultant has filled it with quizzes and interactive elements. It’s launched during a sales…

A key question facilitators need to ask themselves if they want to make sure transfer happens is, “During training are the trainees already making action plans that involve not just their goals but specific concrete activities?” Ideally, trainees will leave a training program saying, “I know what I am going to do step by step after training”. In our last…

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action” – Herbert Spencer. Did you know that only 20% of what is learnt in training programs is actually applied back on the job? We know this is an issue that many L&D professionals face when designing programs for their trainees. We at The Learning Gym (TLG) believe we can do…