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Seven Principles

to Deliver

Training Effectively

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Seven Principles to Deliver Seven Principles to Deliver Training EffectivelyTraining Effectively

1.The Principle of The Learning Specialist

2.The Principle of The Learner

3.The Principle of The Language

4.The Principle of The Lesson

5.The Principle of The Teaching Process

6.The Principle of The Learning Process

7.The Principle of Review and Application

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Principle 1 : Principle 1 : The Learning The Learning

SpecialistSpecialist

A learning specialist must

know the program,

lesson, subject, skill, or

truth to be taught.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 1Rules to Apply for Principle 1

• Prepare each lesson by fresh study and

review.

• Illustrate new ideas, concepts, truths, and

facts in terms of the every day experiences of

the learners.

• Discover the "natural order" of material or

information to be presented.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 1Rules to Apply for Principle 1

• Whenever possible relate the material to the

lives of the learners

• Set aside a definite time for study for each

session or lesson, in advance of the

instruction.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 1Rules to Apply for Principle 1

• Learning specialists should not limit themselves

to the training aids at hand

• It is important to remember that complete

mastery of just a few ideas is better than an

ineffective smattering of many

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Principle 2 : Principle 2 : The LearnerThe Learner

A learner must attend

with interest to the

program, lesson, or

subject.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 2Rules to Apply for Principle 2

• Never begin a training session until the

attention (active) of the learners has been

secured.

• Pause whenever attention is interrupted or

lost; wait until it is completely regained

before you begin again.

• Never completely exhaust the attention of

the learners.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 2Rules to Apply for Principle 2

• Appeal whenever possible to the personal

interests of the learners.

• Use a variety of instructional methods to

arouse the attention of the learners.

• Identify sources of distraction and reduce

them to a minimum.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 2Rules to Apply for Principle 2

• Make the presentation as attractive as

possible, using illustrations, graphics, and

training aids.

• Use third-party stories, dialogue, and

analogies whenever possible to illustrate the

point.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 2Rules to Apply for Principle 2

• Prepare before the session several thought-

provoking questions.

• Maintain appropriate eye contact with the

learners and use appropriate voice inflection

and body language

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Principle 3 : Principle 3 : The LanguageThe Language

The language used as a

medium between the learning

specialist and the learner must

be common to both

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Rules to Apply for Principle 3Rules to Apply for Principle 3

• Use the simplest and fewest words that will

express the desired meaning.

• Study carefully and constantly the language

of the learners.

• Test the learners' understanding of the words

frequently to make certain that they are not

being incorrectly used.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 3Rules to Apply for Principle 3

• Use short sentences of the simplest

construction.

• Use illustrations to help the learners

understand the meaning of words and

symbols.

• If the learners fail to understand, repeat the

idea or thought in other language, or use an

analogy or example.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 3Rules to Apply for Principle 3

• If the learners fail to understand, repeat the

idea or thought in other language, or use an

analogy or example.

• Identify the terms, symbols, and language

that the learners are familiar with prior to the

session and adjust the program accordingly.

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Principle 4: Principle 4: The LessonThe Lesson

The information or skill to be

mastered must be explicable in

terms of information already

known by the learner — the

unknown must be explained by

means of the known.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 4Rules to Apply for Principle 4

• Discover what the learners know of the

subject, topic, and material; this is the starting

point.

• Utilize the learners' knowledge and

experience.

• Relate every lesson—as much as possible—

to former lessons as well as to the

experiences of the learners.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 4Rules to Apply for Principle 4

• Arrange the presentation so that each step of

the lesson leads easily and naturally to the

next.

• Use illustrations that the learners can identify

with.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 4Rules to Apply for Principle 4

• Encourage the learners to make use of their

own knowledge.

• As much as possible, choose the problems

that you assign to the learners from their own

activities and interests.

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Principle 5 : Principle 5 : The Teaching The Teaching

ProcessProcess

The teaching process must be

arousing, using the learner's

mind to grasp the desired

thought or to master the

desired skill.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 5Rules to Apply for Principle 5

• Excite the learners' interest in the subject,

lesson, and/or material through statement of

inquiry or thought-provoking questions.

• Consider it a principal responsibility to

awaken the minds of the learners and to not

rest until each learner demonstrates his or

her mental activity and involvement.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 5Rules to Apply for Principle 5

• Place yourself frequently in the position of

the learners and join in their search for

additional information and knowledge.

• Allow learners time to sort out the material

and gain understanding.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 5Rules to Apply for Principle 5

• Repress the desire to tell all you know or

think about the subject, lesson, or topic.

• Be dedicated to beginning each session in a

manner that stirs interests and activity

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Principle 6 : Principle 6 : The Learning The Learning

ProcessProcess

The learning process must turn

one's own understanding of a

new idea or truth into an overt

habit that demonstrates the

new awareness.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 6Rules to Apply for Principle 6

• Help the learners form a clear idea of the

work to be done.

• Ask the learners to express in words or in

writing the meaning of the session or lesson

as they understand it.

• Answer the questions of the learners in a

non-threatening manner.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 6Rules to Apply for Principle 6

• Strive to make the learners self-directed and

independent investigators.

• Seek constantly to develop in learners a

profound regard for truth as something

noble and enduring

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Principle 7 : Principle 7 : Review and Review and ApplicationApplication

The evidence of individual

development must be reflected

through a reviewing, rethinking,

reproduction, and applying of the

material, information, truth, or skill

that has been communicated.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 7Rules to Apply for Principle 7

• Realize that reviews are a part of the

instructional process.

• Establish a set time for review.

• Get into the habit of providing a review at the

completion of each lesson as well as after

each section or at the close of a topic or

subject.

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Rules to Apply for Principle 7Rules to Apply for Principle 7

• Seek comprehensive and complete

groupings of material.

• Identify as many applications as possible.

• Demand that learners rethink material and

information into a personal understanding

and orientation

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Source of Reference:

Jerry Gillet and Seteven Eggland, Principles Principles

of Human Resource Developmentof Human Resource Development, Perseus

Books Group.