Transfer of Learning

UNIVERSITY AMERICAN COLLEGE SKOPJE

Course: Stuff training and development

Essay title: Transfer of training and evaluation

In this essay i will try to provide my personal critical opinion and working experience on the issue – transfer of training and evaluation.

„Transfer of training is effectively and continuing applying the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that were learned in a learning environment to the job environment“.1 When we are speaking about transfer of training we must define the factors that affect efficiently transfer of knowledge. HR managers should put attention on these three fields if they want to organize effective training:

1. Training participants attributes (training of training by pre-qualifying nominees during the process of registration);

2. Working environment (If the company wants to see benefits from training, they must think clearly what happens before employee goes to training and what happens after he/she back from training. Are they implementing their knowledge into their performance, if company provide certain conditions for implementation. All these factors are very important if one company wants to achieve certain goal.

3. Training program design ( The organization must ensure that the training programs objectives are directly focused on companies goals).

Starting from the fact that every company organize training in order to get new knowledge and experience and achieve some goals, ofcorce one part is financial, companies also must work hard on improving the transfer of training. Firstly, before starting of training, companies must put attention on their own procedures, update them and use them during training. An other important thing is that company must decide which level of employees need to be trained.

Many companies also organize training with professional experts and consultants. I must add that these coaches must be trained haw to teach effectively. Before starting training one organization must set some...