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Coach’s Responsibilities include:
- Assessing trainee knowledge and skills
- Organizing and planning training
- Develop relationship with the trainee
- Teaching knowledge and skills
- Evaluating progress
- Suggesting changes needed to the program
Each coach must interact with a team which includes trainees and managers/supervisors for a
successful OJT program to function.
Discuss the responsibilities of the supervisor, and trainee listed in unit2.

8.11 Unit 3: Coaching Adults
Adults learn differently from children.
Research has taught us some characteristics of adult learning.
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Adults respond best to learning that is active and experienced-based.
They like learning they can relate to on the basis of their own experiences.
Unlike children, adults are experts in their own right in specific areas.
This expertise needs to be recognized and may be used to meet the learning goal.
Adults are real-life centred and desire practical problems, example, and descriptions from real
life.
Adult learners are task-centred and
problem-centred.
They are quick to focus on a
problem and so are solution-driven.
Adults have personal training goals.
They may be skill-seeking and in training to
acquire a new job skill.
Sometimes an adult will be
motivated by the pleasure and satisfaction of
learning something new or by camaraderie
of interaction.
Other times an adult will be
motivated by the resultant increase in pay or
certification at the end of the class.

Knowing a trainee’s motivation will help in coaching that individual.
Adults are independent, self-directed learners.
Methods should be used to guide the trainee to learn in a way and at a pace comfortable for him or
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