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Occupation Health and Safety Training Name: Course: Instructor’s Name: Date: QUESTION 1: When designing and delivering training to adults, what are six key principles to keep in mind? According to Knowles, Holton, & Swanson, (2014) people can be described as adults when they portray aspects of self-concept of responsibility for their own lives and can direct themselves independently. The following six key principles have been developed to enable designing and delivery of training needs to adults (Knowles, Holton, & Swanson, 2014). Self-concept is among the key principles that enable adults to seek self-direction and choose what they want to learn and how they want to acquire the education (Phillips & Phillips, 2016). Adult resists being imposed on ideas or directives other than what internally motivates them. Setting up individual goals will also enable the adults to carry out self-testing and acknowledge goal completion at the end of the task (Knowles, Holton & Swanson, 2014). Adults have over time gathered foundational knowledge from life experiences that would augment the current learning. The trainer needs to find the interests and experiences of adults being taught which enable designing of current training to utilize those aspects. The information gained over time from different environments over time enable adults solves problems that reflect earlier occurrences (Knowles, Holton, & Swanson, 2014). Phillips & Phillips, (2016) argue that adults are goal-oriented and they seek to learn towards fulfilling existing life challenges, which will enable better life. Adults are also compelled to learn new situations that are
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