Are your current curricula and training courses directly applicable to the target job(s)? Can
learners easily remember and apply the content from training courses to produce correct on-the-job outcomes?
Cognitive Technologies' instructional design experts design curricula and courses that improve the
performance of individuals and the business results of the organization. Performance-based training
has a narrowly defined purpose: reducing the gap between novice or standard performers and expert or
key performers. Performance-based training is designed to enable people to bridge the gap between
their initial knowledge, skills, and attitudes, and those needed to perform well on the job.
Cognitive Technologies uses the Performance DNA methodology to conduct the front-end analysis
and the PERFORM methodology to guide design and development activities. Activities we conduct as a part
of this service area include:
- Analyze key performers to capture the critical work processes and tasks
- Determine which work processes/tasks are amenable to training
- Analyze the difficulty and complexity of problematic work processes and tasks to determine how best to combine them into a performance-based curriculum
- Make decisions concerning the most appropriate interventions (training, job aids, combination), the courses that must comprise the curriculum, and how to sequence courses.
- Build the curriculum plan
- Conduct research, content analysis, and in-depth task analysis to define and design content, practice exercises, modules, the sequence of activities within a course, as well as to determine the job aids that should be provided.
If you are experiencing problems with the transfer of training and the ability of your learners to
produce required job outcomes after training, call the Cognitive Technologies' instructional design experts.