A number of incentives can help increase the likelihood that learners will participate in training. In addition to building training into plans for professional development and providing credit or recognition for completion, efforts such as ensuring clarity in expectations and making training easy to attend and engaging can positively impact learner participation.
Strategies and Methods
- Implement strategies to motivate learners to attend training
- Provide explicit and realistic expectations for training
- Subject matter
- Objectives
- Methods
- Provide continuing education or academic credits applicable to learners
- Make training part of overall professional development for learners
- Target training toward meeting external benchmarks or organizational objectives
- Link training topics to public health or other professional competencies or standards
- Recognize training completion
- Certificates
- Diplomas
- Ceremonies
- Offer opportunities for networking with other learners
- Social media prior to or following training
- Interaction during training sessions
- Offer opportunities for collaborative learning with other learners
- Offer opportunities for applied learning
- Promote training as fun
- Make training accessible (easy to identify, affordable) and convenient (close in proximity, distance learning, asynchronous learning, reasonable timing and amount of time involved)
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