Learning Activity 3~create an employee training plan

According to Northouse(2018), it is important for transformational leaders to  “exhibit greater individual consideration and promote intellectual stimulation for followers”(p.183).  Also, for servant leaders, follower’s career development is the first priority. Servant leaders help employees grow and succeed with providing the followers mentoring and support.(Northouse, 2018)

Here is an imaginary employee training plan if  I need to train a physician to use a new operation technique.

1. I will share the vision, in another words, I will clear the main purpose of the operation. What we can do with this operation and why we have to do it. Sometimes an operation procedure is one small piece of whole treatment, so it is important to clear ” what this operation is for”.
2. Ask the doctor to read some articles and textbook related to the new procedure
3. Ask the doctor to search YouTube or past operation recordings to watch the same procedure.
4. Let the doctor join the operation as an assistant to watch how I perform the procedure until she get used to the operation and remember all the procedure in the brain.
5. Allocate a new patient who needs the operation.
6. With the real case, do some simulation with drawing.
7. Let the new doctor perform the operation technique.
8. Use the recording to reflect the doctor’s performance.
9. Give the feedback.
10. After he learn, let him teach somebody

For the physician training, most important thing is simulation before apply to real patients. Nowadays YouTube is quite good to give resources to learn. Another important thing is feedback from leaders. For that, SNS, using modern technology to create platform which we can share the information have become the great tool. Doctors do not always work together. Sharing information is quite important also if we post the case, we can get feedback and advise as well. I put teaching somebody is the last step because if you are not clear you can’t teach people.

For my employee development plan, the important step is simulation and giving feedback. Recently we could use the technology to easily achieve it.

References

Northouse, P. G. (2016). Leadership: Theory and practice, Seventh Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.