Effectively Teaching Employees: The Basics of Adult Learning
36mGeneral2024-03-05
Authors

Madecraft
Full-Service Learning Content Company

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
0. Introduction
- 01 - Get the fundamentals
1. Teaching Adults Today
- 02 - The importance of teaching
- 03 - An overview of adult learning theory
- 04 - What modern teaching looks like
2. Start with the Why
- 05 - More than knowledge
- 06 - Close performance gaps
- 07 - Create a narrative
3. Focus On the Learner
- 08 - Recognize context
- 09 - Use the past
- 10 - Market your teaching
4. Change Behavior
- 11 - Start small
- 12 - Repetition, repetition, repetition
5. Tools You Can Use
- 13 - Live teaching
- 14 - On-demand teaching
- 15 - Teaching outside the box
- 16 - Evaluating teaching technologies
Conclusion
- 17 - Go teach
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