Ch. 7

Concept & Brief Description: Instructional Design; A process of systematically developing training to meet specific needs.
Emotional Hook: Are employees ready for training? I never would have thought that before. I have assumed that if they don't know it then they are ready to be trained on it. If you can judge the employee's cognitive ability you will be able to better gauge what they are capable of learning and accomplishing.
Key Points: Organization's need good training programs, there are several steps that help an employer accomplish this. Organization, person, and task analysis are a few of those steps. There are several different types of training methods, you should constantly measure how effective your trainings are being through work evaluations.
Question: What companies don't have training and why?