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23 Types of Training

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Training is the transfer of knowledge and development of abilities that have practical applications. This can be contrasted with education that need not be practical as it may be foundational and exploratory in nature. Training is commonly used to prepare individuals for a profession, role, task, practice, tradition, craft or sport. The following are common types of training.

Soft Skills

Developing behavioral and interpersonal skills in areas such as communication, time management and personal resilience.

Professional Training

Developing knowledge and skills related to a profession such as project management training.

Technical Training

Specific skills related to the design, development and operation of a technology.

Leadership Training

A prominent type of soft skills training that prepares individuals to get people moving in the same direction towards a common purpose. Leadership is a tacit ability that includes skills such as public speaking, influencing and motivation.

Management Training

Preparing individuals to direct people and control resources. For example, learning to develop estimates, schedules and budgets.

User Training

Training the users of a technology. For example, training a finance team to use a new accounting system.

Process Training

Instructions for executing or managing a process. For example, training employees to run a production line.

Certifications

Training that certifies that an individual is competent in a profession, practice, process, task or situation.

Internal Training

Internal training conducted in-house by an organization. Typically covers proprietary knowledge that is unique to an organization in areas such as culture, principles, processes, policy, systems and applications.

Team Building

Exercises designed to build social bonds between team members and develop a productive team culture.

Improvisation

Sessions that require participants to spontaneously build upon the inputs of others in a positive way. Intended to break static, unimaginative and negative habits.

On The Job Training

Learning by observing and doing work. Essential to gaining tacit, situated and dispersed knowledge.

Internships

On the job training for non-employees such as students who are seeking work experience.

Apprenticeship

Extensive programs of classroom, on the job training and mentorship that allow participants to master a profession over a period of 2-10 years.

Charrette

A charrette is an intensive period of collaborative design such as an architecture conference that has participants design a passive house.

Sprint

A sprint is an intensive period of collaborative development such as a conference that develops software.

Industry Training

Industry training such as a conference that provides lectures on trends, change and challenges in an industry.

Retraining

The process of refreshing skills that a professional has previously learned and/or learning new processes, systems and practices in a domain. For example, legal professionals who receive regular training sessions to update them to recent changes and interpretations of the law.

Orientation

Welcoming individuals to an organization, team or program and giving them the information and social connections they need to get started.

Safety Training

Training in health and safety such as methods for preventing human error.

Compliance Training

Instructions for complying to a regulation, rule or standard. For example, certification training for a quality standard.

Simulations

Training that simulates environments and situations to develop abilities. For example, training for astronauts that requires participants to complete tasks in an environment that simulates the stresses and conditions of space, blast off or landing.

Business Games

Games that are structured to create scenarios for strategy, problem solving and decision making that are relevant or analogous to business situations. For example, war games that simulate an information security incident.
Overview: Training
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The transfer of knowledge and development of abilities that have practical applications.
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