Design and Delivery
Alceon has invested in the development of training methodologies and tools that overcome the many challenges of our diverse training audiences. This enables us to give much more, in a much shorter time, than conventional delivery techniques. There are three pillars supporting successful training.
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Training Design
The first pillar of success is good design. If training is required, then the quality of design is fundamental to effectiveness and cost. Knowledge transfer alone will never deliver what a client requires, so Alceon uses a systems approach, ADDIE model, to focus on the delivery of individual and collective skills that can be applied and used. This often requires building foundations in the core staff skills of assimilate, organise, analyse, communicate, and decide before systems can be effective. Alceon training design uses multiple learning scalars, layering learning objectives for all aspects of delivery to reinforce the necessary foundation and support a diverse training audience. We conduct training design for delivery by others, as well as by our own teams.
Training Delivery
The second pillar of success is forged by the quality of the delivery. It is an area in which we excel; and we achieve it through investment in understanding our training audiences and investment in training our own people. Alceon trainers are highly experienced and include commanders of, and chief instructors from staff colleges. None the less, we all undergo training to focus us on the delivery requirements of a particular course; covering the different roles of mentor, facilitator, coach and trainer as needed. We also send our teams out fully equipped and self sufficient, with detailed facilitator guides containing direction and top tips for each lesson, lecture, syndicate activity or exercise. This guarantees a consistent quality of delivery at all times.
Our training audiences are frequently diverse, often multi-national, and one size will not fit all. Rather than just acknowledging that, we do something about it. We provide tactile and visual training aides and we adjust our delivery, so that the rate of learning is not determined by language skills or educational background.
For example: the conceptual diagrams, so loved by management consultants, convey no meaning whatsoever in some cultures, where learning is based on a narrative tradition. So their sole use as an explanation of process is doomed to failure. Similarly, formal analysis is an alien concept to someone whose education has been completely linear and didactic, yet those people can become great problem solvers. Alceon has invested significant time and effort in finding effective training solutions that produce common understanding across such diverse groups. We use adult education principles combined with carefully developed, tactile, interactive techniques to develop transferable and enduring skills. Alceon courses are highly active and students learn by doing.
Our investment in the training of our own teams, and a continuous lessons process that constantly refines what we do, has also made us peerless in the training of trainers for other organisations.
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