Showing posts with label productivity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label productivity. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Staff training: Reps, reps and more reps

One of the final staff training tips we mentioned in our post from last month involves ensuring that someone learning a role actually has a chance to perform that function.  
Here, the theory is quite simple and obvious: if you do something 100 times, you should expect to be better at it on the 100th try than you were on the first.  Unfortunately, the simple theory and ostensibly simple practice becomes difficult to execute because various roadblocks keep popping up.  
Here are some of the most common reasons we hear when we find out that a person doesn’t get the repetitions that he or she need to improve: