Comments on: Complex learning, step by step

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:01:06 +0000

Rey:

That’s a good question. “Onboarding” has such a broad range that you may have to answer it within the context of your particular organization.

Offhand, one component of onboarding is “how do I find out who’s where and which group does what?” Offhand I’d say that’s fairly straightforward, even if the answer shifts over time. A larger question is, “What do we make, for whom, and why?” There you might be able to apply the whole-task approach, at various levels of details, to help a new individual understand the company in terms of the needs of some of its current customers.

There’s also the non-manufacturing part of the manufacturing organization. What I have in mind here is the kind of thing we had at GE: somebody’s building the turbines or the plastics or whatever, somebody’s out marketing them, somebody’s working to understand the needs of clients and communicate those to developers.

By: Rey Lozano

Rey Lozano — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:59:36 +0000

I admitt I haven’t read the book only the articles on 4C/ID and that I look forward to going through this whole site. What I have read so far, however, intuitively appears to be something that I can model a manufacturing training program after. I am however having difficulty relaying much of the jargon and verbage to the manufacturing environment. Being in the developmental stages of the training program intuitively I understand that our training environment will be simulator-based and that much of the training will have to be compartmentalized and what attracted me intitially was the part-task component on this model. Dave, can this model serve as the basis for designing an “on-boarding” program for new employees that integrates them fully into the company culture while training them in complex entry-level production jobs?

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By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:33:27 +0000

“Recognize what they believe, understand how it was influenced by their culture.”

I can’t help recalling a couple of lines from the Unitarian Jihad:

Just because you believe it’s true doesn’t make it true.
Just because your motives are pure doesn’t mean you are not doing harm.