Effectively Teaching Employees: The Basics of Adult Learning
Effectively Teaching Employees: The Basics of Adult Learning
What you’ll learn
Skills you’ll gain
Teaching employees can take many forms. You may be an HR business partner onboarding new employees or a manager trying to improve the performance of a struggling team member or even a new project manager trying to get the company to learn a new process. Whatever your situation, knowing how to teach employees is fundamental to your success. In this course, Matt Gjertsen, former head of Training and Development at SpaceX, will walk you through many of the aspects that make teaching employees different from what you may have experienced in the past. You will learn the importance of connecting with an employee’s motivations using the knowledge they already have and building an engaging learning experience. Matt will also walk you through the tools available to put this information into practice. Stop making long bulleted PowerPoints that everyone hates, and teach in a way that will drive success for you, your employees, and your business!
Syllabus
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Importance of teaching Not all organizations realize how important it is to develop their employees. 2m
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Overview of adult learning theory Teaching employees can be more difficult than you think. 2m
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What modern teaching looks like In the fight to teach employees, there are a lot of strategies at your disposal. 3m
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More than knowledge As the world gets ever louder, keeping people's attention is becoming harder and harder. 2m
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Closing performance gaps In the world of business, it all comes down to performance. 2m
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Create a narrative For thousands of years, human beings have used stories to pass down knowledge. 3m
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Recognize context Nothing, especially learning, happens in a vacuum. 2m
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Use the past Every employee has their own set of experiences to take into account when designing learning. 2m
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Marketing your teaching Being able to make choices for yourself is an incredibly important part of being an adult, so of course, autonomy is a big part of teaching employees. 1m
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Start small Changing behavior is one of the hardest things a person can do. 1m
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Repetition, repetition, repetition Whether it is riding a bike or hitting a baseball, most people are familiar with the concept of muscle memory. 1m
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Live teaching Few events in corporate life have lower expectations than in-person, mandatory training. 2m
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On-demand teaching When it comes to scaling teaching solutions, on-demand content is one of the most powerful tools available. 2m
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Teaching outside the box Many of our most impactful learning experience happen outside of formal teaching situations. 1m
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Evaluating teaching technologies The landscape of learning technologies is vast and ever expanding with new opportunities. 1m
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Go teach Put your new skills to use as soon as possible! 1m
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
Awarded upon successful completion of the course.
Instructor
Matt Gjertsen
Matt Gjertsen is a learning leader who is passionate about enabling small businesses to build a better future. He focuses on first principles and iterative design, a practice he first learned as an Instructor Pilot in the U.S. Air Force to make content built with the learner in mind. After four years as head of Training & Development at SpaceX, he founded Better Every Day Studios in 2018 which creates custom learning content and facilitates impactful employee training designed to change behavior and improve performance.
Matt Gjertsen
Entrepreneur, Advisor, and Learning Leader
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How GoSkills helped Chris
I got the promotion largely because of the skills I could develop, thanks to the GoSkills courses I took. I set aside at least 30 minutes daily to invest in myself and my professional growth. Seeing how much this has helped me become a more efficient employee is a big motivation.
