Training Employees and Volunteers

Training and developing employees or volunteers requires a consistent plan that takes learning styles into account. Good curricula includes a baseline to measure current knowledge of specific content, a list of learning objectives and multiple teaching methods.

Teaching methods may include shading boxes with borders, and colorful graphs, charts, maps or flow charts. Substituting pictures for verbiage speeds comprehension and may reduce volume. Kinetics (movement) and interactive learning (problem solving) helps learners integrate theory and practice. Each training module should measure the degree of student learning.  Lastly, engage participants in improving training content, methods, delivery and learning outcomes.