LTEC 4040 – Unit 1

Key Points and Implications
Name: Jennie Larry Johnson
Date: January 24, 2016
Key Points Reading:
The Six Principles of Breakthrough Learning (Introduction and Chapter 1) and High
Impact Learning (Foreword, Preface and Chapter 1)
The Six Principles of Breakthrough Learning
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Key Point
“Management has a fiduciary and ethical responsibility to ensure that those investments
(training) produce a return: results that improve performance and competitiveness.”1

Implications
The implications are that managers should be held accountable for ensuring that employees have been provided with training sufficient to prepare them operate at maximum performance. They should also be held accountable for the systems are in place to support the transfer of knowledge/skills learned to the workforce. Manager should then be held accountable for monitoring and documenting improvements as an indicator of the effectiveness of the training. This information could then be used to determine if the training was cost effective based on the returns.

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The Sixe Principles of
Breakthrough Learning

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D1-Define will be useful to me because it points out that fact that companies should ensure that trainees understand why they are being trained and that they are provided with clear objectives regarding the company’s expectations as to how and when the skills/knowledge learned is transferred to the workforce. An example would be setting specific tasks assigned to accomplish stated units of performance integrated throughout the training curriculum.
D2-Design will be useful to me because it points out that companies should ensure should ensure that training is planned to provide the “complete” experience. This means training programs should close the gap between what is to be learned, what is taught, how the