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Habit patterns

Workplace trainers try to get it right the first time with their operators and trainees but invariably end up spending time trying to correct errors, misconceptions, non-compliance, technique faults and bad habits that somehow develop.

Because these errors were not corrected early, and were inadvertently repeated over and over, i.e., practiced, many error patterns are actually learned, habitual and automatic and therefore much harder to eradicate.

For example, Mike always has to be reminded to wear his safety goggles and John always follow cars too closely when driving his truck.

We all know that old habits die hard and many habit patterns are resistant to conventional change methods.

These limitations of traditional teaching, coaching and training programs are apparent in all settings including sport, workplace training, education, therapy and personal development.

Re-training or re-education, the typical solution to these problems, improves things only slowly, if at all.

Although operators may appear to pay attention during instruction and practice their new, correct, skills and knowledge over and over, the next day when placed under performance pressure or when unsupervised and left to their own devices, they seem to have forgotten what they’ve learned and the same habit pattern errors, e.g., old entrenched attitudes, beliefs, misunderstandings, work practices and routines, faulty procedures, poor techniques and unsafe behaviours, resurface.

A prolonged adjustment period and poor transfer of learning are the typical outcomes of education, training and coaching efforts worldwide.

All this wastes talent and resources and makes change and transition programs so much less cost-effective. There has to be a better way.

Fortunately, a cognitive science discovery called Old Way New Way^® Learning offers:

• A new perspective on the transfer of training problem.

• A cost-effective and user-friendly method for rapid skill and technique correction and habit eradication.

• A fast and practical method of transition and conversion training.

This page tells the story of habit forces; how and why habits develop; the crucial role habits play in our lives; why old habits die hard; and what you can do to change that for manual handling using the Old Way New Way^® change tool.

Training options

Training in Old Way New Way^® Learning is available in an online course, either with or without email support, or in a training workshop for small groups.

Online course

Online courses are designed by professional educators and follow modern instructional design principles. The Flash based courses can be downloaded and are self-paced, interactive and self contained. Step by step instructions, examples and case studies teach you all about Old Way New Way^® Learning and how to apply it to a wide range of human performance problems in your field of interest. Most courses include at least one video segment that shows Old Way New Way being used; some courses contain four video segments. Online courses that come with with email support cost more but are tailor made and provide step by step solutions for your own selection of specific performance problems.

Workshop

The one-day training workshop provides face-to-face instruction and follow up support for small groups of practitioners, e.g., workplace trainers, supervisors, operators, nurse educators, physiotherapists, behaviour change specialists, and so on.

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manual handling training tool—rapid and permanent correction of bad work habits

improves manual handling compliance
achieves 80% to 100% correction of a bad manual handling work habit after one 15 minute training session, with no falling back to old ways
speeds up transition and conversion training
greatly improves transfer of learning and eliminates negative transfer in manual handling
eliminates long and repetitive classroom training sessions - you only need one session lasting one hour
eliminates costly participant booklets or other expensive consumables/training materials
corrects a bad work habit you've spotted, on the spot and with minimal interruption to work flow
corrects a group of operators or a whole work team who share the same bad work habit, either on the spot during work or in a brief one-hour classroom training session
reduces the need for ongoing supervision of manual handling work practices and eliminates nagging because operators remember what they were taught
increases employee flexibility and adaptability to change.

manual handling program features

uses a learning method proven in workplace trials at ALCOA and published in Safety News, the OHS journal of the National Safety Council of Australia
is backed by Australian National Training Authority funded research published in the Journal of Vocational Education and Training
is readily adopted by manual handling trainers, instructors, workplace coaches and supervisors as part of their professional toolkit
is being used in-house by both large and small corporations, government departments and small businesses
is a generic manual handling training tool suitable for all workplace trainers, supervisors, instructors, coaches, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, training consultants.

manual handling—rapid correction of bad work habits

Manual Handling Rapid Correction of Bad Work Habits is an advanced workplace training skills course designed for experienced trainers, managers, supervisors, organisational psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, change agents, and employees in all kinds of occupations.

Old Way New Way^® manual handling training can enrich your training experience and improve your training effectiveness.

Old Way New Way^® manual handling training is well grounded in psychological learning theory and is verified by published experimental research in refereed professional journals. Furthermore, the record of its success in practical situations involving workplace behaviour change and improved safety compliance stands unchallenged (e.g., Weaver, G., Baxter, P., & Lyndon, H. Changing Work Habits: More Gain, Less Pain. Safety News, October 2000, pp. 58-59. National Safety Council of Australia Ltd.).

The course will provide you with explanations, demonstrations, and step-by-step instructions so you can quickly start using Old Way New Way to accelerate manual handling learning.

You will learn the fascinating theoretical background of Old Way New Way; discover how it has been used to quickly correct manual handling and other skill development problems, work procedure problems, poor work habits, skill transitions, and other performance problems at work; see a step-by-step demonstration of its use to change the manual handling (lifting) of an operator; learn to prepare your own skill correction and behaviour change protocols that you can use in many different workplace training and performance situations; and learn how to use Old Way New Way to speed up adaptation to things new, and make employees more flexible and adaptable to change.

Rapid correction of bad work habits short course content

course introduction, learning objectives, and rationale for the course structure
background reading for the practical assignments, with a self-administered test of understanding of the main concepts, accompanied by model answers
demonstration of the brain mechanism that slows down change and improvement and makes old manual handling work habits die hard
a practical assignment that teaches you the generic steps in Old Way New Way manual handling training
a practical assignment that guides you, step by step, to use Old Way New Way, first to change your own behaviour and skilled work performance, and then to change an operator's manual handling technique, and a ten-minute video demonstration that shows you how the latter was actually done
other practical assignments that show you how to use Old Way New Way to change the manual handling performance of team or crew members, and whole teams
a generic Old Way New Way^® protocol template that you can modify to suit many different kinds of manual handling technique and work habit correction, and other work performance problems
stepwise comparison of Old Way New Way^® and conventional manual handling training, so you can quickly understand where they overlap, and see the important differences
case studies of how Old Way New Way^® can improve workplace performance in hazardous materials handling, safety training, workplace health, customer relations, pilot training, transition training, workplace literacy, work habits, and other workplace performance problems
examples of how Old Way New Way^® has been used in physical therapy
examples of its use to correct misconceptions and misunderstandings that may be the root cause of workplace performance problems
how to use Old Way New Way^® for skill transition training, and platform migration
list of published research that underpins this methodology
implementation support options, including e-consultation, an online course, and on-site consultation.

Rapid correction of bad work habits course formats

Choose from these manual handling training program formats.

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Training tools for instructors | workplace trainers | operators | trainees Rapidly correct persistent errors in performance | understanding | operating procedures | work routines | techniques | habit patterns