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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


Habit patterns

Trainers, instructors, operators and trainees try to get it right the first time 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; Susan always follow cars too closely when driving; and Geoff is mentally still following the previous aircraft’s pre-flight checklist even though he's converted to another aircraft.

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.

Operators and trainees appear to pay attention during instruction and practice their new, correct, skills and knowledge over and over, but 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 home 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 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, instructors, supervisors, operators and trainees.

Workplace training

   Workplace safety

   Manual handling

Flight instruction

   Flight instruction (email us)

   Type conversion (email us)

   Glass cockpit conversion (email us)

Driving

   Behaviour change

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Changing Work Habits: More Gain, Less Pain. Australian Safety News, October 2000, pages 58-59. National Safety Council of Australiasafety training program

  • will greatly improve compliance
  • will quickly correct bad or dangerous work habits
  • will speed up transition and conversion training
  • will greatly improve transfer of learning and eliminate negative transfer
  • increases employee flexibility and adaptability to change
  • is being used by both large and small corporations, government departments and small businesses
  • uses a learning method proven in workplace trials at ALCOA and other workplaces
  • is backed by published research, case studies and workplace trials
  • is readily adopted by trainers, instructors and coaches as part of their professional toolkit.

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safety training—Old Way New Way® workplace training skills course

Old Way New Way® Workplace Training Skills is an advanced workplace training skills course designed for experienced trainers, managers, supervisors, organisational psychologists, change agents, and employees in all kinds of occupations.

Old Way New Way® workplace training can enrich your training experience and improve your training effectiveness.

Old Way New Way® 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. Australian Safety News, October 2000, pp. 58-59. National Safety Council of Australia Ltd.).

The modern, Flash based, highly interactive course will provide you with explanations, demonstrations, and step-by-step instructions so you can quickly start using Old Way New Way® to accelerate workplace learning.

You will learn the fascinating theoretical background of Old Way New Way®; discover how it has been used to quickly correct 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 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.

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 habits die hard
  • a practical assignment that teaches you the steps in Old Way New Way® training
  • practical assignments 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 with video transcript 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 performance of team or crew members, and whole teams
  • the Trainer's Checklist, a generic Old Way New Way® protocol template that you can modify to suit many different kinds of technique and work routine corrections, and other work performance problems
  • stepwise comparison of Old Way New Way® and conventional training, so you can quickly understand where they overlap, and see the important differences
  • numerous case studies of how Old Way New Way® can improve workplace performance in hazardous materials handling, safety training, workplace health, customer relations, aircraft conversion 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
  • a list of published research that underpins this methodology
  • implementation support options, including e-consultation and on-site consultation.

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For background information on the Old Way New Way® Workplace Training method, please visit our home page.

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