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Keeping Just-in-Time from Being Way-Too-Late or Way-Too-Little.
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Hughes, Michael – Performance Improvement, 2003
Describes a systematic approach for the design of training that supports large software implementation projects. Addresses the diverse combination of users, with different needs and time requirements, and outlines how a systematic design approach can be applied to the design and delivery of complex training solutions related to performance…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Performance Technology, Systems Approach, Training Methods
Playing a New Game as a Training Professional: It's Your Move.
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Charchian, Ruth; Cohen, Stephen L. – Performance Improvement, 2000
Examines the differences between traditional training and performance improvement. Highlights include the role change for human resources professionals from managing employee training to shaping strategic plans for the organization; incorporating a systems approach; engaging a task force; and enlisting top management support. (LRW)
Descriptors: Administration, Performance Technology, Strategic Planning, Systems Approach
Integrating Knowledge Management Systems, Electronic Performance Support Systems, and Learning Technologies
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Ma, Yuxin; Harmon, Stephen W. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2006
The field of training and development has been increasingly affected by knowledge management, performance support, and learning technologies, yet the impact of these disciplines has typically been disjointed and uncoordinated. Projects in each of the disciplines are often implemented systematically, but not systemically. To take full advantage of…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Performance Technology, Models, Systems Approach
The Long and Winding Path (from Instructional Design to Performance Technology).
Carr, Clay; Totzke, Larry – Performance and Instruction, 1995
Introduces a series of six installments on making the transition from a training/instructional design approach to human performance technology (HPT). The first installment topics include defining human performance technology; obstacles to effective HPT; and the necessary role characteristics for trainers performing HPT. (AEF)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Change Strategies, Definitions, Human Factors Engineering
A Top Level Analysis of Training Management Functions.
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Ackerson, Jack – Journal of Interactive Instruction Development, 1995
Discusses how to conduct a top-level analysis of training management functions to identify problems within a training system resulting from rapid growth, the acquisition of new departments, or mergers. The data gathering process and analyses are explained, training management functions and activities are described, and root causes and solutions…
Descriptors: Administration, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Industrial Training
Sense and Nonsense in HPT
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Brethower, Dale – Performance Improvement, 2004
Sense and nonsense is abound in human performance technology (HPT). There is no single cause of the abundance of nonsense. However, there is a reason that nonsense is more abundant than sense. The reason is that any principle has a specific domain of applicability. Within that domain it is sense. Outside that domain it is nonsense. Some…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Instruction, Intervention, Performance Factors
Training Practices.
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1996
This document contains four papers presented at a symposium moderated by Valeria Stokes at the 1996 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development. "Management Development Simulations: Effective or Not?" (Jill R. Hough) reviews the differences between simulations and educational games and presents a simulation classification…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Data Collection, Educational Games, Educational Quality