Step 4 - Prioritize Courses for Development Efforts

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REMEMBER: The facilitator's role is to stimulate the team to make

any adjustments that may be needed. Question and challenge their

statements when it seems necessary, but always allow the team to

make any technical decisions.

Step 4 - Prioritize Courses for Development Efforts.

4.8.4

4.8.4.1

Set-Up for Step 4. Once again, leave all of the signs and pages from

Step 3 intact on the wall. Re-draw the initial training structure on a

flipchart page (and the continuing training structure on a separate

flipchart page) to reflect the changes and additions generated during

Step 3. Hang the revised training structures back up on the wall before

beginning the next step.

Conducting Step 4. Begin Step 4 by reminding trainees from the

4.8.4.2

"Overview" lesson that this step involves identifying which topics have

the most immediate need for the development of training materials.

If there is already an existing training program for the job for which the

team is designing a training program structure, then some of the topics

of the validated task list might already have adequate training. Other

topics which need to have training developed will be identified during this

step. Management will want to play a large part in this decision. Make

sure that any management personnel are present during this step to

provide their input.

Using consensus decision-making, ask the participants, "Which five

topics do you feel are most necessary to have training developed?"

Place 1X2 Post-its on each topic page identified. Then have the

participants rank those five topics in order of priority by asking, "Which

topic needs training developed for it the most?" Write a large number "1"

on the 1X2 Post-it you attached to the topic page. Ask, "Which topic

would you say should be next in priority?" Write a large number "2" on

the 1X2 Post-it you attached to it.

Continue prioritizing topics 3 through 5 until a level of priority has been

assigned to all five topics (see illustration on the next page).

Step 5 - Determine Course Content.

4.8.5

4.8.5.1

Set-Up for Step 5. Isolate the prioritized topics and their task statements

on a separate wall. Set up a flipchart with a pad of paper at the front of

the room where all participants can see it.

NOTE: All signs and pages from previous steps should be left up in

order to retain a global picture of the program.