Get ahead of the skills curve - TWI JI Training Timetable
No more getting caught out by skills shortages in your department. The TWI JI Training Timetable keeps skills in check.
In their daily work, busy supervisors often struggle to keep track of future changes or gaps that create need for training. It requires careful planning to be on top of things to ensure jobs skills development and cross-training keep up with rapid changes so future disruptions in production or service can be avoided. The only way stay ahead of the curve, is by monitoring upcoming changes carefully and planning training well ahead. In TWI JI we say: training should always be done by plan, not by accident.
TWI Job Instruction develops the skills supervisors need for this by using the TWI JI Training Timetable. This powerful tool drives leadership routines that enable supervisors and managers to size up, visualise and address their training needs before skills gaps or shortages threaten performance.
As an everyday visualisation and scheduling tool for on-the-job training, the TWI JI Training Timetable is kept simple. Skills required for a job-role are tracked at the detailed task level in a easy to read way: a person is either fully qualified (tick) to perform a task, not yet qualified (blank) or has a performance gap (asterisk) that needs to be closed. Dates indicate when a training session for a specific person on a specific task will take place. As job skills training in TWI JI is done for each task individually, this detailed visualisation enables the supervisor to plan and track individual training session with ease and precision.
The Training Timetable also has two additional margins at the right and bottom edges that serve as ‘thinking aids’ that guide supervisors through the process of anticipating future training needs driven by gaps or changes in their team or upcoming changes in production or processes. Once gaps and changes have been identified, training can be easily scheduled and tracked.
Our clients often manage the Training Timetable on large whiteboards in the production or team areas, which provide great talking points for the team and enable daily and weekly stand-up meetings to plan and monitor job skills training. This develops fully integrated operational habits that ensure skills training is a central part of supervisors’ everyday leadership tasks and everyday operational routines.