Structured Training Program

A structured training program has a clearly detailed schedule, time frame, outline of activities, and assignment of responsibilities. It has well defined goals and consequences. Having a structured training program will lead to more successful outcomes and employee development than one that is ad-hoc, informal and unstructured and/or one that is not designed by education/training professionals. Workforce Education acts as your training professional.

A structured training program is usually of a longer term duration in order to address long term business outcomes.​
Some of the benefits of a structured training plan or program include:

• Goals

  With a structured training program there are stated goals and developed outcomes, with strategies on how to achieve them. Without structure, there is little awareness of how to achieve the training goals and what strategies are needed to accomplish them. Subsequently, your training comes across as less important to your employees. In a structured program, the expected training outcomes and strategies are clear to all concerned in the training. This is vital for program success, as they provide direction for specific steps taken and methods used by trainers to develop the skills of employees.

• Consistency
  A structured training program increases your ability to provide a consistent, well considered and high-quality training experience for all employees. A clearly outlined training framework ensures that managers can consistently implement across each level of the organisation and for all employees. Every employee starts with a similar opportunity to learn the key facets of their job role thereby giving all employees an equally good start. Staff will appreciate that they all receive a similar training experience that increases team responsiveness.
• Outcomes
  To stay on top, successful companies constantly upgrade their standards of performance, and therefore the skills of their employee. For growth measured training outcomes are necessary in order to make improvements and adjustments over time. Measurement also allows for a review and redesign or tweak where needed if a particular training component doesn’t produce the desired results. Unstructured training gives you no way to measure whether the time and money spent on training has produced tangible gains.
• Certainty
  With structure comes certainty. Certainty about the quality and impact of the training provided; how many days or hours you allocate to training; budgeting for training is more effective and the training of new staff a known timeframe to reach a critical level of job familiarity.