I discovered that there are two main problems that must be addressed in this scenario. Problem #1 is that the training is not interesting and is not effective. Problem #2 is that the audience (employees) are bored and expressing a lack of motivation to complete the trainings. To develop a helpful and effective solution to solve the problems, I decided to research different techniques and methods that will be helpful and effective to both the trainees and its organization. So of course, the first thing that comes to mind when solving the problems would be to update the trainings and send the employees on their way, but the solution goes deeper than that. We don't just want to update the information, but we also want to make the trainings more interactive, exciting, and most of all effective.

According to an article located on administrate.com, employees don't look forward to company training, but they have discovered that gamification, interactive activities, group work, and visuals are all equal components for a successful and engaging training. The goal of this project is to revise the training to be more interesting by incorporating more activities, gamifications games, group work, and visuals. After implementing all the techniques previously listed the training should display a more interactive and technology based demonstration. To provide more detail I will go through each section that will be implemented, and discuss how it will look and how will be effective in this project.

 

Since the goal of this project is to create a more interactive training I thought that incorporating the use of gamifications will be very useful. Gamifications are application of typical elements of game playing (e.g. point scoring, competition with others, rules of play) to other areas of activity. According to the article it explains that this method works well if there is a reward based system in place for the staff. In this project, I will create and use a gamification gaming method that gains the interest of the employees. I will use the necessary content, break it down into section and translate the information into a game that employees will participate in. The key is to have fun while learning new information.

Successful learning is a combination of three elements:

• 70% from real-life and on-the-job experiences, tasks, and problem solving

• 20% from feedback and from observing and working with peers and role models

• 10% from formal training

As we note from this, gamification can provide an effective approach to enhancing learning. This is because these inherent features:

• It evokes friendly competition.

• It provides the learners with a sense of achievement.

• It provides an engaging learner experience leading to anticipated behavior change.

• It encourages learners to progress through the content, motivate action, and eventually influence behavior.

The gamification will consist of a variety of problem solving, problem solving, peer feedback and scenarios. Adding gamification to the new training will create a better learning experience and environment, as well as provide instant feedback.

 

The second method that will incorporated in the training is Group Work- Gives the trainees a chance to work amongst the group and gain different perspectives for a better understanding. Listening to an individual go on and on lecturing can be rather boring so working in groups helps the training become more engaging. This will simply display team building skills as well as get the employees to interact with one another and engage with others as well. Examples of group work in the new training are, working through scenarios, partner discussions and verbal problem solving with peers.

​Our third method for the new training program would be to incorporate Visual Aids which helps learners with understanding information through images and tools related to the topic. Visual aids involve your audience and require a change from one activity to another: from hearing to seeing. When you use visual aids, their use tends to encourage gestures and movement on your part. This extra movement reinforces the control that you, the speaker, need over the presentation. The use of visual aids, then, are mutually beneficial to the audience and you.
Visual aids add impact and interest to a presentation. They enable you to appeal to more than one sense at the same time, increasing the audience's understanding and retention level. With pictures, the concepts, or ideas you present are no longer simply words but words plus images. Other forms of visual aids are movie clips, DIY video, pictures, handouts etc. We want to monitor the time of the different videos that are incorporated, so that the audience won’t get bored easily.

Our last method to incorporate into our new training is Interactive Activities- According to the article previously mentioned incorporating interactive activities forces individuals to work together. It also helps with engaging the interest of the trainees. Examples of interactive activity would be role play and acting out different problems and solutions to ensure that the information is communicated and learned correctly. Ice breakers would also be a great interactive activity to implement to get everyone familiar and comfortable with one another. Below I will provide a link that will provide more options for interactive activities in a training.

https://www.slideshare.net/coloradostatelibrary/101-interactive-training-techniques

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Effective training is performed through effective skills and interesting programs. Julia Bluestone stated in her article entitled, "Effective in-service training and delivery'‘, that using multiple methods to convey information is very helpful with retaining the information and using it in an effective way. Using different methods and techniques will help increase the interest of the learners, it will be more effective, updated, and more engaging. The new training program will have a variety of different methods. Having different learning methods will help the training more engaged and not so boring. This will ensure that all employees will be effective and retain information as well.