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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

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