Effectively Teaching Employees: The Basics of Adult Learning

Effectively Teaching Employees: The Basics of Adult Learning

36mGeneral2024-03-05

Authors

Madecraft

Madecraft

Full-Service Learning Content Company

Matt Gjertsen

Matt Gjertsen

Course details

Teaching employees can take on many forms. You may be an HR business partner onboarding new employees, or a manager trying to improve the performance of a struggling team member, or even a project manager trying to get a company to adopt a new process. Whatever your situation, knowing how to teach employees is fundamental to your long-term success. In this course, Matt Gjertsen, the former head of training and development at SpaceX, provides an overview of the many aspects that make teaching employees in today’s workplace different from what you may have experienced in the past. Learn the importance of connecting with an employee’s motivations using the knowledge they already have and building an engaging learning experience that meets your employees where they are. Discover the tools available to put this information into practice and start teaching in a way that can drive success for you, your employees, and your business.

Skills covered

Instructional DesignLearning and DevelopmentTraining and EducationHuman ResourcesLimited Series

Concepts

Introduction

  • Get the fundamentals

Teaching Adults Today

  • The importance of teaching
  • An overview of adult learning theory
  • What modern teaching looks like

Start with the Why

  • More than knowledge
  • Close performance gaps
  • Create a narrative

Focus On the Learner

  • Recognize context
  • Use the past
  • Market your teaching

Change Behavior

  • Start small
  • Repetition, repetition, repetition

Tools You Can Use

  • Live teaching
  • On-demand teaching
  • Teaching outside the box
  • Evaluating teaching technologies

Conclusion

  • Go teach
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