Training professionals today find it highly challenging to develop and deliver high calibre content that can match the demand of their audience. Dynamic skill sets, customised delivery methods to reach out to a globally and culturally diverse training group, the requirements for “bite Sized” learning modules etc are just a few. Training and talent professionals not only have to ensure that trainees are in the right mind set to attend training, amidst conflicting responsibilities, but also need to keep learners thoroughly engaged throughout the learning experience. As the scope widens for learning technologies and methodologies available, training professionals are taking a multipronged approach to ramp up training effectiveness. This is where the right training intervention falls into place.
Though intervention has been conceptually associated with counselling which is essentially a one – to –one process, trends indicate that a lot of training professionals are using intervention to …show more content…
However the one that fits the bill is John Heron’s Six Categories of Intervention. Heron classifies intervention into two broad categories – Authoritative and Facilitative. While an "authoritative," intervention indicates that the person "helping" , is guiding what the other should do by furnishing information , the "facilitative," style indicates that the person "helping” is supporting the other to assess himself to make decisions. Though there have been debates on which is a better style, training would be synonymous with facilitation.
Facilitative Intervention is further classified into three more subtypes, which could be used either individually or in combination for any given training program. But the extent of engagement that these interventions could provide would depend on how the trainer is able to “mix and match” the intervention style to the training needs of a particular individual or group.
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Though intervention has been conceptually associated with counselling which is essentially a one – to –one process, trends indicate that a lot of training professionals are using intervention to …show more content…
However the one that fits the bill is John Heron’s Six Categories of Intervention. Heron classifies intervention into two broad categories – Authoritative and Facilitative. While an "authoritative," intervention indicates that the person "helping" , is guiding what the other should do by furnishing information , the "facilitative," style indicates that the person "helping” is supporting the other to assess himself to make decisions. Though there have been debates on which is a better style, training would be synonymous with facilitation.
Facilitative Intervention is further classified into three more subtypes, which could be used either individually or in combination for any given training program. But the extent of engagement that these interventions could provide would depend on how the trainer is able to “mix and match” the intervention style to the training needs of a particular individual or group.
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