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Education Philosophy

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Education Philosophy

 

There are two levels of ambition and education objectives in most of onTrack education offers:

Basic level or briefing:
The objective here is to give an understanding about the method or tool content, potential, prerequisites and usability. After a basic training, the student recognizes situations where it might be useful to apply the tool. He/she is not supposed to perform the activities on his/her own but to know where to find the facilitation resources.
The education is typically about two hours to two days and is very suitable for a larger group of people to create a common language and set of references.

Facilitator level:
A facilitator shall be able to take the lead in a small or big cost reduction project. In order to be able to do that the theoretical education must be complemented with live case training. The facilitator must dare to apply his knowledge onto the task and situation. That confidence comes out of prior experience of mastering similar situations.

The facilitator education typically follows four phases:

Basic education or briefing (see above)

Method training. The method is applied on a training case without any real participants. All functions and people that would be present in a live case are simulated. The purpose at this stage is to train the method procedures, not how to handle people.

Project training and experience. In this phase the student participates in real life case facilitated by onTrack. As he/she is now familiar with the method, the focus is on how the project is handled, what questions and answers came up, how did people act and react etc.

Solo flight. Now it is time for the student to put everything together and facilitate a project on his/her own. onTrack will be ready to support but it is clearly the students responsibility. It is very important to force the student to make it on his/her own. The experience from successfully carrying out an own project will boost the ability to function as a facilitator.