Training: Maximizing Your ROI! (2017) In the emergency management world, applying lessons can mean the difference between life and death for people with disabilities and others with access and functional needs. It’s about impact and outcomes. The goal is not just lessons observed, documented, or heard about, but lessons repeatedly applied, so we can eventually claim them as lessons learned.
Recent disaster response efforts have highlighted and reinforced the need to modernize our current training models. Time and budgets for training are very limited. We must ensure that the initial investment in developing training does not become trapped in outdated learning and evaluation methods. The content offers 6 “How’s” for modernizing training.
- Refresh content and materials frequently
- Train teams
- Elevate importance of exercises
- Use spaced reinforced interval learning
- Put equal emphasis on just-in-time training
- Use evaluation methods that measure delivery effectiveness, performance, impact and outcomes
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