The Difference between Education and Training
Many people do not understand the difference between education and training. Education is to provide information and communicate to their students. Training is on practice and skills development. Generation of young workers is now through education, but not necessarily well trained.
The problem, if not raise them before the training, it can cause problems. Think about how you learned to drive. You need knowledge about the law and then the real training to get behind the wheel. Education is not done effectively, can lead to undesirable results at the time of training.
There are several ways to ensure consistency of education and training. The first is the manual way. This way is rather difficult to be accepted by students because too boring. We need documentation, but make it more entertaining. Fill in some images and text slightly, so it is more interesting than watching cartoons. People are more likely to remember what they see than what they read.
The second is with video. Better than reading for most employees, but they provide only a small fraction of the desired maximum duration of approximately 3-5 minutes and some change in visual imagery.
The third is online. Some communities are using e-learning. This way is convenient, because like reading a book on the PC we can keep the text for more comfortable viewing. The question of review can be incorporated as a checkpoint for the student to the next section. It is great way to change video and print, but not for training.
Test. We all hate tests. To ensure consistency in the tests, keep it simple and visual images as much as possible and receipts. It is also used multiple choice, ordering, or the wrong format to ensure consistency in classification. Actually doing all the existing tests is to evaluate teachers in the same way.
All forms above are the only educational, but most managers think this way is training. We do not have permission to drive after reading a book, watch the video, and pass the test. We must demonstrate our expertise to the authorities before we got permission to drive. Education is something that must come first before training.
For that, we need to conduct a validation of the skills necessary to do the job. Knowing the job and doing are two very different things.
Validation of skills is capable to give us a picture of a classification for students. For example, in food production. Having a new employee to demonstrate skills, a manager state two things, namely how well the coach and how much employees can perform the functions of the job. We all think that we have the same understanding of the word “welcome host” or “suggestive selling”, but when the field, many of us fined something that is less precise. If not because of the ability of coaches, they just do what they see from other restaurants which is it is often not too good. Evaluation of skills validation can be done every 90 to 180 days to maintain the standard.
A person is to train people. Just because we have, a good employee does not mean they are a good coach. The right way will help the teaching, but must be followed by showing the training, coaching, and validates the skills of new employees. To illustrate this point for your team, ask your trainer to train you to tie shoes or clothes. You pretend not to know. Actually, it is a simple task, we can all do in our sleep, but it is very difficult to train someone for how to do it.