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is no predictor of interest for the subsequent trainee
performance.
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10.4.2 Variable implementation
The trainer performance of the script must be relatively
standardized across trainers, facilities, times, and trainees.
The word “standardized” is critical here: standardization
implies standards, or criteria for the performance. The
training intervention becomes (unacceptably) variable when
the performance deviates from those standards. On the one
hand, the criteria will be set by management; on the other
hand, the trainer's preparation must include an assessment
of the relevant scripted tasks, as judged by a supervisor or as
indicated on some business-process metric. In the case of
team-led training events, it will include both individual level
and group level (training team) elements. In the absence of
such standards and criteria, as Beth Gamse
et al
. have pointed
out, “if no impact were to be found, it would be impossible
to know if it was because of a failure of implementation, a
failure of [the training design], or both.”
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10.4.3 Shifting training audience
There are obstacles to implementation on the trainee side as
well. Employees are transferred or reassigned and are no
longer part of the training audience. Curriculums and
individual training plans (ITPs) change and the training is no
longer relevant to the employee's work assignments. This
attrition and change has an obvious effect on implementation
of training modules and the assessment of sustainability of
training. Beth Gamse
et al
. have commented that it is not so
much “that such changes create a bias between groups;”
