You’ve identified that you need to improve some facet of your working and now you’re making a positive action to do so. “Let me open the ‘How To Create Proposals’ troubleshooter and see what’s what… It can’t be that hard, right?” By taking the first step, you’re embarking on your learning journey. After spotting where you might be lagging behind in your development, you can do what you need to remedy it. And Sharon’s worklife, too, since you wouldn’t have to pester her for help every time you needed a new proposal created! Identifying where you can make improvements is the starting point of learning on the job. My job would be easier if I knew how to create proposal documents myself, rather than having to wait until Sharon is in to do it for me.” What you’ve done here is recognise that you’re lacking skills somewhere that, if you had them, would make your worklife easier. But what does on-the-job training actually look like? Here’s our nifty guide to help you spot when you’re learning on the job! 1. Most adults say that the workplace is the best place for them to learn because it’s familiar and they are comfortable in their surroundings. And you can probably guess what ‘observation of others’ looks like, too. We all know what formal training involves – generally we’re taught by a teacher who sticks like glue to a strict syllabus, then we’re tested to within an inch of our lives to make sure we learnt what we were supposed to. Did you know, 70% of our knowledge comes from ‘on-the-job’ learning? Yup! Only a slimline 10% occurs through formal training programmes and the rest – 20%, as if you needed me to help you work that out! – occurs through observation of others.
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