|
Education and Skills Training; The Engine for Economic Development
|
|
|
Are you interested in what citizens and communities can do to cause successful educational reform? Recommendation: Learn How-to Design an Exemplary Education System. See a Successful and Replicable Model using Joe Harless's model for improving education at the web site of the Central Educational Center, a national Model High School in Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia (just southwest of Atlanta on I-85 at: http://www.gacec.com/index.cfm?section=about. If you are truly interested in what citizens and communities can do to successfully cause educational reform, then I strongly suggest you visit the Central Educational Center web site and then read, "The Eden Conspiracy"; Educating for Accomplished Citizenship by Joe Harless, ISBN 0-9665010-4. It is available on amazon.com. The above mentioned Central Educational Center Model is based on this excellent book that explains how-to cause dramatic improvement in our children's schooling. This book provides a common sense approach for local educational reform by one of the nation's leading experts in human development. Joe explains how to motivate students, how-to improve the curriculum and how-to bring about higher levels of learning for almost all students. Working together we can increase exemplary performance and better manage human resources throughout the world by supporting a better exchange between business and academia, so that the academics are putting their substantial intellectual powers and resources to work better preparing students for exemplary workforce performance. Discover educational approaches that produce comprehensive and seminal changes in the way learning delivers business value. What Bill and Melinda Gates Want You to Know In their first interview together, Bill and Melinda Gates say they're terrified an entire generation is failing in school. Stand up to change America's school crisis. Stand Up - Oprah.com. I also recommend you read "Education' Myths" author, Jay Greene. This book was featured on 20/20 on Jan. 13, 2006 — In his special report on public education, "Stupid in America," John Stossel speaks with Jay Greene regarding; What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools and Why It Isn't So." Greene takes on the conventional wisdom that pouring more money into public schools leads to improved education. Citing national statistics on education expenditures, Greene argues that inadequate spending is not the problem behind poorly performing schools and students. Greene also rebuts some popular assumptions about the roles race and socioeconomic status play in student performance. What should be the ultimate purpose and goals of education? What are the desired student accomplishments as a result of the educational process? What student behaviors are relevant to produce the accomplishments? What is the gap between current accomplishments and the desired accomplishments? What are the causes of the gaps? What interventions are indicated? What specific content should be taught? It is important that these issues be addressed not only before embarking on educational reform, but also in the sequence listed above, because the findings of each analytical step become the input the next. Are you charged with improving workforce performance and reducing training costs? Are you also responsible for producing effective Corporate Skills Training & Development Curriculum? Recommendation: Implement an Accomplishment-Based Curriculum Development System.
Build a state-of-the-art training and development organization with the award-winning the Accomplishment-Based Curriculum Development System (ABCD). Now your training organization can design and develop training they can guarantee will work. Increase training's value and credibility in your organization. Tie training and development directly to organizational goals and improvements in productivity------a true performance-based approach to curriculum planning and training design. Joe Harless, a member of the prestigious Human Resources Hall of Fame, designed and developed these workshops that will revolutionize your business. Often referred to as the "trainer's trainer" Joe Harless has received the coveted Member For Life award from the National Society for Performance Improvement (now, The International Society for Performance Improvement). In short, he has a unique genius for solving performance problems. Establish a one-to-one link between the training and development you provide and the measurements of trainee’s job performance. Produce, as a subject-matter expert, high quality training immediately upon completion of human performance improvement training. Master essential development skills. Learn the secrets of successful curriculum development. Guarantee your training to provide job-relevant skills. Reduce training costs. Document the value of your training. Make performance measurable and observable and give a base-line from which to measure how performance has improved after training. You can quickly show how performance has improved and demonstrate the value of what you do. The Peak Performance System is perfect for e-learning media because the methodology enables you to select the best, most effective delivery media for any type of training. The Peak Performance System is extremely well suited to training delivered through technology because it enables you to break training into smaller segments which trainees can take as needed. Tailor training to your audience's needs and design training you can guarantee will work for any medium. There is no better way to acquire these skills than by attending these workshops. Become qualified to present these workshops personally to your organization. The Following In-House Workshops are Presented at Your Facility Available as a total system installed within your organization including:
Also learn about the Job Aids Workshop. This workshop has been taught for than twenty years with over 10,000 very satisfied graduates; people who are getting more performance for their workforce. Thanks to a wealth of procedures, job-aids, and worksheets, any non-trainers assigned to your training department will rapidly become competent in the process of human performance analysis, design and development. People will be able to hit the ground running. Having a standard model of analysis, design and development that is fully job-aided allows organizations to quickly get subject-matter experts producing high quality courses. The courses and job-aids produced using this process have a powerful impact on performance of the workforce. The courses typically are shorter, more targeted and focused, and tied more effectively to business goals. You will dramatically reduce the cycle time from initial request to course availability. The human performance improvement process training will give you: Comprehensive job aids to assist in all phases of tasks of the human performance improvement process. Tools to prepare trainers with varying levels of experience to operate consistently, even when they are at different locations within your company. Set standards and criteria for each step of the process, allowing you to give focused coaching to your trainers and see consistent results. Opportunity, between workshops, to practice your new skills, use the tools provided with the system, and quickly demonstrates the effectiveness of this approach to your superiors and clients. Personal coaching and consultation between workshops is available to help you effectively apply the human performance improvement to your hands-on-projects. Graduates of the workshops will be able to: Align expectations and establish support for each phase of a project; analysis, design, and development. Tie project results to organizational goals. Perform front-end analysis which identifies the intervention's) which best supports worker performance, such as additional training, job assistance, performance management interventions, performance feedback, etc. Phase 1 is a prerequisite for Phase 2, and Phase 2 is a prerequisite for Phase 3. There are several options for implementing human performance improvement within your organization. "It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding" W. Edwards Deming For any questions, comments, concerns, work requests, or to schedule in-house workshops please send email to: doug@dougmead.com, |
|
|
|