1. Industry relevance

Unlike more general training, industry training seminars are rooted in what is actually happening in your industry. This is a key point, according to Julika Kerres, Training Services Manager at Satair:

"With our experience in the industry, we are all too familiar with the everyday challenges that employees face in their daily operations. We use these challenges as the core of the learning process within our courses. We go into detail within topics and processes that our customers deal with on a day-to-day basis and help trainees understand the bigger picture of the supply chain."

This drives home perhaps the most significant demand when companies and their employees look for a training to invest time and money in - what it teaches has to be relevant right now, not in a distant future.

2. Combining theory and practice

Another important requirement when picking a course or seminar is that it offers an opportunity to both learn new skills and practices and to be able to test those new skills as part of the training.

Purely theoretical education has the drawback that we lose a lot of what we have learnt very quickly. Some studies show that within one hour, people will have forgotten an average of 50% of the information they have been given. Within 24 hours, 70% has been lost, and after a week as much as 90% is gone. One way to decrease this rapid loss of knowledge is to apply the new skills immediately, in practice sessions.

"We believe that knowledge is better absorbed utilising exercises, case studies and group work. This is the basis of all of our lessons. We try to maintain a healthy balance of around 40% theory and 60% practice in each of them. The use of realistic scenarios combined with the best practices and processes from the industry help our trainees put this new knowledge into work as soon as they return from the seminar," says Kerres.

3. Learning in different ways

Another important aspect of combining theory and practice is that we learn in different ways. While some of us absorb knowledge through reading, others prefer to do it by listening or watching. And we all benefit from working in groups. This is something that Satair's Airbus Material Management Seminars are very aware of, says Julika Kerres:

"Amongst the many tools we use in our training seminars are exercises, brainstorm sessions, group work, games or case studies. We try to minimise the number of slides and theory. Instead, we focus on the practical approach of every topic. The feedback of our previous attendees approves that this is not only the most effective approach to training but also the most enjoyable."

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