The Six Boxes - Application Workshops

The Six Boxes^TM Performance Design/Training Support Workshop

Training in isolation is seldom, if ever a cost-effective solution to any performance development or performance improvement need. Trainers know this, as do most insightful or experienced business managers. Nonetheless, requests or proposals for training alone often clog the in-boxes of Training Professionals in organizations.

The Six Boxes provides a framework for proactively designing performance systems and training support programs that produce better and more durable results than training alone. By forcing us to ask all the right questions about what’s needed and what’s getting in the way of performance, The Six Boxes can guide us through a design process that takes all the right things into account.

The Six Boxes Performance Design/Training Support Workshop shows participants how to:

Begin the design process by describing the desired performance as a combination of the accomplishments (job outputs or deliverables) needed for business results and the behavior needed to produce those accomplishments.
Identify the factors needed to support desired behavior, and those that should be eliminated or changed to eliminate obstacles to success.
Generate options within each “box” and select the most cost-effective combinations of options for optimizing the target performance.
Use Six Boxes performance design to ensure effective implementation of training programs and application of what is learned in the workplace.
Adapt or develop information-gathering, analysis, and design summary tools for use in the performance analysis and design phases of this process.

Using the Workshop to begin a Performance Design Project: If you select The Six Boxes Performance Design / Training Support Workshop with a particular project in mind, consider adding a second-day Jump Start Work Session following the Application Workshop. We will use the afternoon of the Application Workshop plus the Jump Start Work Session to help you plan, develop tools and protocols, and begin the performance design process for one or more of your projects.