Competency Based Training Is Critical To Productivty
What is the difference between traditional training and competency based training? Competency based training and the traditional approach to training differ in four distinct areas:
1. What the participant learns
2. How participants learn
3. When participants proceed from task to task
4. whether or not the participants learn each task
Perhaps the most fundamental difference; however, is that competency based training is a very systematic approach to training while the more traditional approach is not. What the participants need to know is based upon precisely stated work outcomes that have been verified as being essential for adequate performance of the job for which the participant is being trained.



