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WHY OUR SYSTEM?

The Ketchum Group offers a complete SOJT system which is based upon and licensed from Paradigm Training Systems, internationally acclaimed as the best, most effective structured SOJT program presently available.

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We train people how to train others. The training system instructs the trainers in developing SOJT through planning, teaching, and testing, which results in error-free learning. This training is based on learning how to identify job tasks, conduct task analysis, and teaches the most effective explaining, demonstrating and coaching techniques. An evaluation system verifies your employees learn the skills and apply the knowledge.

Training The Master Trainer

TKG delivers 4 days of on-site personalized training designed for 6-12 participants using the TKG Structured OJT Trainer Course.  Master Trainers are taught both instructional and development skills as they are led through practice exercises with “transparent” content to learn the SOJT process. Your trainers will also learn how to perform task analyses and how to convert them electronically to performance checklists, training handouts, and lesson plans, using our proprietary “Show-Tell System” software.

Your Master Trainers will use the Instructor Selection Test to help identify those employees most likely to succeed as OJT Trainers, then use the SOJT Trainer System to prepare your OJT Trainers to implement SOJT and to continue developing your own trainers for years to come.

This enables you to establish and maintain your own SOJT program—with all of the training materials--enabling your Master Trainers to teach the content and skills needed by your OJT Trainers to then train future employees year after year.

You learn how to set up and manage your SOJT program:

  • Enables you to select employees with the best potential to be OJT trainers
  • Provides materials for an on-going customized SOJT trainer course
  • Prepares Master Trainers to deliver your in-house SOJT courses
  • Focuses on error-free learning, procedure compliance, and expert performance
  • Supports your quality control system with documentation and metrics

Unlike many training systems structured OJT is equally suitable for almost all types of applications: manufacturers, service industry, retail, education, government, etc.

Unique Features of Our System

Quality Program

  • The SOJT system will support your ISO 9000, Requirement 4.18 needs.
  • The system specifically supports the guidelines in ANSI/ASQC Z1.11.
  • The error-free learning outcomes support total quality management requirements.
  • Task analyses, job aids, and performance tests are at one more level of detail than your work instructions, to which they can be directly tied.
  • All necessary templates and checklists are provided to enable you to set up your customized SOJT program.

Instructor Quality

  • You use the Instructor Selection Test ® to determine which employees have the potential to be the best coaches, trainers and mentors.
  • The content-free approach to teaching instructional skills ensures the instructors use the whole teaching process to cause error-free learning.
  • By practicing Real-Content Coaching with the skills they will teach on the job, your instructors start right off with success.
  • Your instructor certification program, based on level 3 on-the-job performance, will verify that your OJT Trainers are fully qualified and capable. Kirkpatrick’s 4 Levels of Evaluation Model

Time Flexibility

  • The workshop begins with one full eight-hour day.
  • The on-the-job practice of three skills can be learned in one day or over two weeks.
  • The second and third class days can be delivered in two 8-hour days or in four half-day sessions.
  • The full workshop can be delivered in four 6-hour days.
  • Or, you can configure it in a more flexible way to exactly meet your needs. You will have the Participant Manual in digital form so you can re-sequence the lessons or leave out units.

Content Flexibility

  • Because you will have the Participant Manual in digital form, you can make a new manual which includes only those activities you need for your program. For example, you might omit those performance checklists that don’t pertain to a particular job or group of OJT Trainers.
  • You can totally focus on instructional skills, with CFM, CFC and Real-Content Coaching practiced in two days and four teaching experiences.
  • Or, you can focus on task analysis, performance checklist, and/or job aids. Exercises can be extended for those who will be specifically responsible for developing them on the job.
  • Or, you can use it for mentor training for use in training managers or supervisors.
  • You can train everyone in your organization—from engineers to production line workers, medical staff, customer service reps, information workers, and part-time employees.

Long life

  • Workshop materials are provided in an industrial-quality plastic box or a rolling soft-sided suitcase.
  • Materials are heavy plastic and last indefinitely, and spare sets of practice exercise materials are provided..
  • Participant manuals and instructor guides are on a memory stick.
  • Re-usable folders and training materials are laminated.

Easy Set Up

  • Photocopy masters of consumable pages are designed to be printed easily and quickly in sets.
  • Replacing the pages in folders and participant manuals used in training exercises can be done in minutes.

Cost Benefits

  • You’ll have an in-house OJT training program that will eliminate the need for outside contractors.
  • Productivity and quality are likely to be higher because employees are able to work faster and better. This leads to better use of time and materials, resulting in considerable cost savings.
  • Employees won't be learning from peers and won't be using inefficient, incorrect, or unsafe methods, so you won't continue to lose money.
  • High quality products, information and services will reduce complaints from customers and raise the prestige of your organization.
  • When employees become accustomed to learning and experience immediate success, they are more quickly trained on new and additional tasks, which raises flexibility at all levels.
  • You’ll have less turnover and absenteeism, as lack of timely, proper training is a frequent reason given for leaving a company.
  • You’ll use a ROI system to show the benefits of structured OJT to the company.

Advantages for Your OJT Trainers

Trainers learn the full range of instructional skills, including how to:

  • Prioritize what skills should be learned and who should learn them to meet the needs of the organization.
  • Determine the specific training needs of individuals.
  • Break down job tasks into component steps and knowledge.
  • Write performance objectives to describe learning outcomes.
  • Develop and use performance checklists to verify achievement of objectives.
  • Write lesson outlines for one-to-one training sessions.
  • Motivate trainees to learn new skills and perform at their best.
  • Use instructional strategies appropriate to the content, trainees, and objectives.
  • Use explaining, demonstrating, coaching skills and facilitating that ensure error-free learning.
  • Develop job aids for use in training and on the job.
  • Assess their own effectiveness as instructors and improve their performance.

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