Training Within Industry (TWI) is the single most powerful system of training ever devised. With so many “flash-in-the-pan” and “flavor-of-the-month” training gimmicks out there, I thought it would be helpful to understand just where TWI came from. Here’s a brief history: To understand TWI, you need to go back…way back… to the dawn of the 20th Century, and the work of Frederick Winslow Taylor. 1911 – Taylor and “Scientific Management” Frederick Winslow Taylor was a … [Read more...] about A Brief History of TWI
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DACUM… The Best Way to Figure Out What The Heck People Do
Surprisingly, many organizations would like to develop internal training programs, but they aren’t entirely sure what it is that people in their organization do. I don’t mean the broad strokes of a duty that are enshrined in job descriptions; it’s the little things, the individual tasks, part-tasks and underlying/foundational skills and knowledge that make up a job. So how do you figure all this out? The best way, as practiced around the world and recognized by UNESCO-UNEVOC (the UN … [Read more...] about DACUM… The Best Way to Figure Out What The Heck People Do