Train-the-Trainer: 6 CAP Principles
Australia: (CAP) Career Acceleration Program
In Melbourne, Australia in 1970, Michael Hewitt-Gleeson designed the generic Career Acceleration Program (CAP).
This was a train-the-trainer technology, for converting knowledge into skill. In training CAP instructors, six principles were emphasised. To become successful trainers they had to master these Six CAP Principles:
1. Learning By Teaching:
Learning by teaching means that if you have to explain something to someone else, then you must have already learned to explain it to yourself. So people are encouraged to teach their skills to each other, to their families, to friends, and so on.
2. Knowledge into Skill:
Developing a thorough understanding and conviction of the difference between merely having knowledge on a matter and owning a skill of performance in it. The virtue of virtuosity. Understanding the strategy of practice and repetition.
3. Measurement:
Unless one was deliberately willing to trade off the necessary time and energy needed to acquire a new skill - that is, logging the hours of practice and repetition - the trainee could never expect to go beyond the knowing stage and reach a level of operating skill. This means focusing on the process and measuring it in hours of practice (HOP) and key performance indicators (KPI).
4. Commitment to Action:
The skills must be useful in daily life. To assist the transfer of skills acquired in training to real life situations, trainees designed specific “action commitments” on special planners including times, dates, places, etc.
5. Effective Follow-up:
The monitoring of feedback and measuring results were an important part of CAP. Checking to see if what happened was what the trainee really wanted. This became a continuous part of the process.
6. Reinforcement:
Noticing increments of progress in acquiring new skills and then recognising them in an appropriate way by feeding back information–cybernetically–for positive reinforcement (CPR) were fundamental principles of CAP.
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Military Training Strategies
SOT uses two primary Scheyville Australian military leadership training strategies:
1. digital training and
2. daily training.
From 1967 through 1974 in Australia and South Viet Nam, Dr. Hewitt-Gleeson studied, as part of his military training and service, world-class Australian Army officer training in leadership, survival, confidence training, instructional techniques and military arts. He conducted further experiments while serving as an officer/chief instructor in the Royal Australian Air Force as a Reserve Officer.
As a result of this experience he designed CAP which was well received by trainees, trainers and educators for producing measureable results. Since then, continuous, focused development of the training technology in the marketing, business, and public training applications has brought its evolution to its current stage of development.
September 10th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
I will say learning by teaching is the best tool to trained people if only they are ready to learn a skilled
Learning by teaching, in my experience, is key to self reinforcement of a skill. It provides the trainer clear insight into the operation of the principles of the knowledge to skill process itself, specifically when the trainer must create several different approaches to communicate this process to others in order that each person receives and understands the message.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
“Teaching” is more active than simply studying. The Teacher takes responsibility & this typically results in motivation & energy. Teaching increases awareness of our shortcomings & lack of skill or knowledge.
This will help us focus on areas for improvement.
Teaching always results in interaction & feedback.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Learning by teaching is the foundation of Training and instructing. As both Trainer and Instructor I do it everyday. At every class I ask my students to teach someone else. If they are able to do this, then they know the basics of what they are teaching and demonstrating. Also by being with another student as Teacher they are learning often without realizing it. Perfect Preparation Prevents Poor Performance. Practice, Practice, Practice and Practice again.
August 25th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
An understanding of principle 2 will help me to become a better leader by showing me that to simply know a thing does not give the ability to do that thing. It takes time, practice, and repetition to take knowledge into skill.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
learning by teaching i have found in my experience to be the most powerfull way of learning, as not only do you have to know the subject but also have to be very fluent in the topic to be able to pass on the knowledge and answer questions which are on different lines from the way one person normally thinks.
August 25th, 2008 at 3:38 am
No. 1 really stood out to me! How can you debate a point to win the other over to your way of thinking if you don’t ‘know it internally’ yourself!
But I also realize the need to return to the written daily planner for tasks, activities, etc.
Thank you!
August 25th, 2008 at 2:48 am
Learning by teaching, in my experience, is key to self reinforcement of a skill. It provides the trainer clear insight into the operation of the principles of the knowledge to skill process itself, specifically when the trainer must create several different approaches to communicate this process to others in order that each person receives and understands the message.
August 24th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Catching people doing the ‘right thing’ as opposed to catching them doing the ‘wrong thing’ is a powerfulleadership and teaching tool
August 22nd, 2008 at 4:05 pm
With every overall objective there needs to be a strategy, actions and an outcome. The 6 CAP principles makes this achieveable and consistant.
August 20th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Effective follow up is essential. It makes staff feel valued and it provides you, the trainer, with important feedback so that you can tinker with your program. An absolute necessity. To not do it is to have your head in the sand!
August 20th, 2008 at 2:35 am
6 CAP principles make great sense in building a personality.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:46 am
I hear and I forget
I see and I believe
I do and I understand
Confucius
All 6 stages are necessary for a successful implementation of putting learning into action.
I would count step 1 teaching as crucial for the thorough understanding of knowledge.
By repetition and feedback, a person can progress to skilled or even genius level in a particular endevour.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
So very true, i think they are all like loops of a long chain of success, you cannot reach your goal of success without even one loop left behind. We should follow sequence too. Love.
July 7th, 2008 at 10:52 am
If you want to really know something, then teach it. The 6 CAP Principles will help one to become a much better trainer.
Knowledge is only knowledge until it is used then it becomes a skill. And this skill needs to be measured using hours of practice and key performance indicators.A skill needs to be used on a daily basis,and feedback given to assess progress.
July 1st, 2008 at 10:34 am
This thinking reenforces my belief that to truly be a leader you must first have the commitment to internalise the knowledge (by following steps 1-6), and a belief in the product, service, technique or training you are trying to pass on to those who will carry out the day to day tasks required to reach the desired outcome. If there are no clear guidelines an KPI’s to guage success or failure (the leaders Job), there isn’t likley to be a measurable outcome and suborninates need positive feedback to continue to follow.
June 27th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Powerful stuff. Most training sessions hyped you up but leave you hanging and this have become like a yo yo effect.. a vicious cycle, whereas these 6 principles when applied appropriately will ensure success.
June 27th, 2008 at 6:00 am
when u read, u know nothing. when u write, u start learning, when u TEACH, Learning goes 2 Brain.
Attitude helps in Learning but quite Useless unless U develop APTITUDE!
Aptitude will help 2 acquire Specialized SKILL and then only Action will start to produce something, then only d question of AUDIT.
ATTITUDE+APTITUDE>WORK>RESULT>AUDIT
REPEAT D PROCESS
Carry on….
June 27th, 2008 at 5:48 am
All of them are important; numbers 1and 2 I identify very much with; number 3 , I find sometimes a bit confusing to implement , and 6and 6 are necessary to “get to the other end of the pipeline”, that is, KNOWLEDGE INTI SKILL
April 18th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
What is digital training?
March 6th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Learning by teaching is a principal I like because I like to learn new things and gain benefits from feedback from others, trainees. Such a neat idea.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I believe that continuous programming is what one needs to do to give oneself a stream of plans to life succeed or fail. Keep doing it and you are through life.
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
The above principles are good basic tools for success.I use 1-3 in my daily life.Iwould like to
develope the skill to THINK and im looking forward to receive my first lesson of sot.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:30 pm
I agree with the principles. They follow a logical process. Each successive principle seems to validate or reinforce the previous principle.
December 18th, 2007 at 7:31 am
All of these principles are vital to develop knowledge and expertise. Based on my experience, most people are familiar and can handle 1-4 but most lack 5 & 6. These are the skills that are difficult to practice because they really ask us to be honest with ourselves and with others.
December 16th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Practical, relevent and comprehensive……
December 15th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
I would choose No 6. Reinforcement.
As far as working online is concerned, much of what I learn and apply lacks external feedback. I can do my own test and measurements, but there is no third party feedback. Some thing I look forward to with this course.
December 15th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
After earlier sessions with the good doctor Michael, where I was lucky enough to work with him in a small session, I have most strongly utilised the knowledge into skill principle. I was spending a lot of time working with people, presenting great knowledge content. They liked it, acknowledged it and went away with a great degree of positiveness, only to go back to what they had always done. This was not because of poor attitude, only that I had not taken the time to show them how to implement it and to work with them when it took longer to inculcate (sometimes it was just letting them know it was okay to go backwards before they went forwards). Similarly, I now try when being taught to ensure that I understand why something needs to be done, what it is and how to do it, and seek commitment from my teacher to work with me as I incorporate the learning.
December 12th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
I think that all of these principles are extremely valuable. I would, however, feel the greatest affinity to principles 1 and 2, because I have come to the same conclusion on my own a long time ago and since then I see that those principles are both extremely fruitful and difficult to implement.
No 2 is, in my opinion, more important. I used to call it “making a product”, which usually is more difficult than what it looks. It requires both additional trimming and packaging. For instance, it is not enough to “know” something. Anyone who tries to put in words what he knows, for instance write a paper, immediately discovers that he needs a whole lot more: some experimental results, processing these results, drawing valid conclusions, commenting on the results (all this blends in with principle 1), citing references, formatting the paper, etc. Otherwise it would hardly come into question for acceptance. Anyone who wants to make a wooden box must have a lot of skills in woodworking - the more the better. But being able to make a box does not yet make the box saleable. It must have a pleasing shape, finish and packaging. In this manner one could procede ad infinitum.
December 12th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Michael I have used your CAP whilst working with Salespeople to great effect…I will try to adapt them to my golf game..
December 12th, 2007 at 2:30 am
I feel all the six CAPs are of equal value and complementary to each other.
December 10th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Leaning by Teaching is very true, by teaching to someone else, things get sorted out in the logical way and you as the trainer remember and understand more.
December 8th, 2007 at 8:37 am
I would like to focus on knowledge into skill: most people are taught how to do something before understanding or knowing what they are doing. The focus in education is “just in case” teaching/learning not “just in time” when the students are ready/open and willing to learn
December 6th, 2007 at 5:38 am
These are excellent training tips. I will use them in preparation for an upcoming promotional oral exam for fire suppression Battalion Chief. Which requires rapid thinking ability.
November 15th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Good steps to follow - it would be nice to have in laid out as a nuemonic.
November 4th, 2007 at 6:25 am
I’m hoping for the best.
March 31st, 2007 at 3:50 pm
The master first knows, understands, percieves, then simply points out the place from where he got all that to the desciples. That is the true master.
March 28th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
please enlighen me on how to improve my thinking habit
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March 20th, 2007 at 1:57 am
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