Defining Relevance

Probably the biggest complaint any EHS manager for any organization has regarding a distributive training solution whether it be videos or e-learning is that it is too generic. That the content delivered is:

1) is not complete in that it does not address their specific competency requirements;
2) is too comprehensive in that only a small portion of the content is relevant to their issues; or
3) is too generic in that situational examples, illustrated media, and the such references industries other than their own creating confusion;

In other words it's not relevant. The importance of relevance, I think, even goes beyond what complaints listed above. In fact, relevance may be the most important criteria of any training activity.

First, I think with any EHS training, e-learning or even conventional for that matter, rarely are the learners particularly excited about the prospect of sitting through a course on, lets say, Personal Protective Equipment. They have work to do; they feel the training is unnecessary; they've been "doing this job for #-years, and never needed it before;" "Forget OSHA!" You get the idea. I call it the "buzz-off" factor. I might even say that in every course I've taught in an EHS subject over the last 15 years, at least 20% of the attendees (often many more) didn't want to be there, vehemently.



A fundament benefit of SafetySkills is that fact that Active Learning Elements are specifically designed to be deployed either "in-concert" in a series within a given topic; or "a la carte" in a construct of independant, autonoumous Active Learning Elements in infinate combinations and permutations to create a custom "course."
Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 by Howard Greene filed under

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