31: Five Effective Ways to Train the People You Lead

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Business, Management, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2012

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Whether you have access to many training resources or none at all, there is a lot you can do as a leader to train others. In this episode, we’ll examine 5 effective ways you can train the people you lead.

1. Hold a Class

This is a great tool when lots of people need to learn something at the same time
Ask yourself, “What do I want people walking out of this room doing differently?”
Focus on the objectives instead of the logistics

2. On-the-Job Training

This is helpful when the learning lends itself to this, there are less resources or time available, or if there is a very small number of people involved
A lot of organizations talk about on-the-job training, but few really do it
Be clear on what you want the person to learn during an established time period and design for that

3. Role-Playing

This is helpful when teaching something that requires a lot of human interaction and thinking on your feet.
Your steps: demonstrate – practice – coaching/feedback
Try to use a “real-play” if at all possible

4. Online learning

Helpful when you need to repeat and scale
You can do this yourself if you don’t have the resources of a large organization or outsource it

5. Social Learning

Connectivism: Most knowledge exists in the world rather than in the head of any single individual
I’m part of a year-long mastermind group
Suggesting relationships, bringing in websites, videos, and podcasts to share with those you lead

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0:00.0	You're listening to coaching for leaders. This is episode number 31,
0:04.0	airing on April 2, 2012.
0:07.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. maximizing human potential. Welcome to coaching for leaders.
0:18.0	This is the show for leaders who want to engage and develop others without relying on authority or sanctions.
0:26.0	Whether you're a seasoned leader or leading people for the first time,
0:30.0	improving your coaching skills will drive your success and most importantly the success of others.
0:37.0	This week's topic is five effective ways to train the people you lead.
0:46.5	Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of coaching for leaders. My name is Dave Stahoviac and I'm coming to you from our studio out here in Orange County, California.
0:53.5	I hope that this episode finds you doing well,
0:56.8	and if you're joining us for the first time, welcome.
0:59.3	This is the show for folks who care about engaging
1:01.8	and developing others,
1:03.0	and doing so in such a way where people want to be led by you,
1:07.0	not just feel like they have to be led by you.
1:10.0	And you'll remember last week we kicked off a series on training and how to train the people we lead and we took a look at some of the mistakes that leaders make when doing training and sending people to
1:25.0	training and so if you didn't have a chance to check that out make sure to
1:29.0	check out episode number 30 you can find that at coaching for leaders.com and check out that episode as well.
1:36.6	But today we're going to actually move forward and take a look at what are some effective ways
1:41.6	that you can train the people that you lead?
1:45.0	And I was reading this week in the book Employee Training and Development from Raymond
1:50.1	No.
1:51.1	And he defines training as training refers to a planned effort by a company to
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