Structured OJT Trainer System

Internationally acclaimed as the best, most effective, and most economical OJT program presently available, our system will enable you to establish and maintain your own OJT program such that your OJT trainers can generate error-free work performance.

Your trainers are taught both instructional and development skills as they are led through practice exercises with “transparent” content to learn the OJT process. They then proceed to teach the content and skills needed by your employees.

Your trainers will also learn how to perform task analyses and how to convert them electronically to performance checklists, training handouts, and lesson plans, using our proprietary “Show-Tell System” software.

Our system:

• Teaches how to set up and manage your OJT program
• Provides materials for an on-going customized OJT trainer course
• Prepares Trainer-Trainers to deliver your in-house OJT trainer courses
• Enables you to select employees with the best potential to be OJT trainers
• Focuses on error-free learning, procedure compliance, and expert performance
• Supports your quality control system with documentation and metrics

How the system works:

1. It begins with our delivery of the Train-the-Trainer Course, during which selected training staff members learn to be OJT Trainer-Trainers.

2. Using the Instructor Selection Test ®, your newly certified Trainer-Trainers identify subject-matter experts with potential to be excellent OJT trainers.

3. Your Trainer-Trainers then teach the OJT Trainer Course to your selected experts, who become OJT trainers.

4. The new OJT trainers begin to train your employees and can continue to do so indefinitely.

5. Your Trainer-Trainers continue to deliver the OJT Trainer Course indefinitely, producing qualified OJT trainers whenever you need them.

6. Your Trainer-Trainers set up and manage your OJT system with metrics and documentation that support ISO 9000 and quality control programs.

Why is structured OJT so much better than informal OJT?

• New employees will learn their jobs somehow. If the only way the have to learn is from their peers, they are more apt to learn the wrong techniques, produce more waste, and make safety errors, lose customers, and in many other ways, cost your company money.
• Studies show that employees who are trained with structured OJT require only 20% as long to achieve mastery as those in informal OJT. The 80% difference is time your employees can spend being productive.
• Studies also show that structured OJT is only half as expensive as informal OJT in terms of supervisor’s time, and reduced output and quality.
• Informal OJT is unplanned, un-evaluated, un-documented, and un-supportive of quality and ISO programs.
• Structured OJT is planned, prioritized, and scheduled. Trainers are trained; trainees learn quickly and correctly, and are evaluated; And, the results are documented, so quality and ISO programs are supported.
• Structured OJT can support your classroom training and internet training by providing follow-up on-the-job practice to ensure real competence.
• Finally, structured OJT is faster, better, and cheaper than informal OJT — but it’s not free. It costs time, money and effort. (But, as the saying goes, if you think training is expensive, try not training…)

Why on-site delivery?

• Customization – During the Train-the-Trainer Course, the Paradigm instructor will customize the OJT Trainer Course for your needs and those of your organization.
• Training Focus – The three-day Train-the-Trainer Course prepares your staff to deliver the OJT Trainer Course to train your OJT trainers.
• Management Focus – On the fifth day of the Train-the-Trainer Course, your staff is prepared to set up and manage your OJT program.
• Quality Focus – The Train-the-Trainer Course includes customization of metrics and documentation in support of your quality assurance and ISO certification programs.
• Cost – It is less costly to have the training come to you than to send your staff to another city for open-enrollment courses.
• Extra Training – The Train-the-Trainer course is for twelve participants — those who become your Trainer-Trainers, plus some interested managers, and some who will become the first OJT trainers.
• Morale – After completing the course, participants feel like they belong to a team and are eager to continue working together to produce excellent OJT trainers and qualified employees.