Effective Training Methodology to assess Individuals' Work Initiatives

Training is a planned process to modify attitude, knowledge, skill and behavior through learning, to acquire effective performance in an activity or range of activities. The importance of training is felt when there is a gap between the present performance and the desired performance. The success of any training program depends on the degree of acceptance and internalization of the training concepts by the individuals. To achieve that, an effective training methodology that understands the motivations and work initiatives of the individual should to be devised in order to effect a change from the core within. This paper aims to analyze the importance of understanding the work initiatives of the individual and then introduce the training methods. The significance of using the Needs Assessment Model by I.L. Goldstein in understanding the needs and motivations of the individual is explained in length. This is followed by explaining how the individuals differ in their learning style. Learning style refers to an individual's habitual and preferred way of perceiving, organizing and retaining knowledge. It explains individual differences for stimuli recognition and processing. This will help in devising training methodologies suited to the individual motivations and learning style.