Job Instruction is about training your people, but its impact is much greater than just training.  Below is a list of benefits you could reap from implementing Job Instruction Training in your organization.

Over-All Benefits

Here are some of the overall benefits gained from using JI.

1. Fewer accidents
2. Less scrap and rework
3. Shorter learning curve
4. Faster on-boarding of new or transferred workers
5. Cut turnover
6. Cut absenteeism
7. Cut transfers
8. Build workers’ interest and enthusiasm
9. Improved employee/supervisor relationships
10. Identifies supervisors for added responsibility
11. Develops supervisors for added responsibility
12. Reduces downtime
13. Provides a method for upgrading employees
14. Standardizes instruction methods
15. Establishing job classifications
16. Gives means of determining cost of instructing
17. Increases productive machine hours
18. Increases productive man hours
19. Decreases tool breakage
20. Makes supervisor an instructor instead of a trouble shooter
21. Provides a method to screen employees’ skill levels
22. Better quality thru more time for supervisors
23. Increases productivity of individuals,
24. Better housekeeping
25. Reduce insurance costs

Time Table for Training

Here are some of the benefits gained by using a Time Table.

1. Reduces training cost
2. Spots sub-marginal workers
3. Spots specific needs in terms of manpower, skills, etc
4. Spots training needs
5. Provides inventory of manpower and skills in department
6. Gauge for transferring workers
7. Gives quick record of employee grading
8. Spots upgrading possibilities
9. Avoids loss in machine time due to training
10. Identifies improvement path for each worker
11. Identifies production weaknesses and bottlenecks
12. Makes supervisors time conscious in training problems
13. Gives supervisor a clear understanding of all facts of the job in his department
14. Builds confidence of workers in supervisors
15. Gets worker to top skill in minimum time
16. Puts classification on performance basis, and takes the guess work out of the supervisors judgment
17. Tangible method of management receiving progress
18. Helps develop supervisors by organizing thinking

Job Breakdowns

Here are some of the benefits gained by using a Job Breakdown.

1. Organizes knowledge to be passed on in order
2. “Blue-Prints” all the points to be instructed
3. Emphasizes safety in supervisor and worker
4. Helps supervisor determine size of instruction unit
5. Means of standardizing instruction
6. Provides tool for auditing knowledge retention
7. Helps to cement worker and supervisor relationships
8. Eliminates unnecessary facts of instruction
9. Identifies to supervisor tricky or Key Points
10. Makes the trainer tell the reason why
11. Removes the guess-work in instructions
12. Increase workers respect for supervisor
13. Increase supervisors respect for worker
14. Helps to replace up-graded supervisors
15. Helps supervisor in knowing the job
16. Simplicity encourages use
17. Saves expensive machinery, materials

4-Step Method

Here are some of the benefits gained by using the 4-Step Method.

1. Creates a better trained work force
2. Improves knowledge and skill retention
3. Gets worker into full production sooner
4. Passes on critical institutional knowledge, the tricks of the trade, that have been developed through years of experience
5. Insures SAFETY POINTS are understood
6. Stresses that REASONS WHY are important
7. Saves the time of worker and supervisor
8. Determines who he should go to for help
9. Makes supervisors ‘Follow through” conscious
10. Makes for PRODUCTION while instructing
11. Insures correct contact and favorable impressions
12. Sells worker on company
13. Identifies to the supervisor that interest in job is important
14. Develops worker respect for supervisor
15. Develops company’s line of responsibility
16. Identifies degree of related skills
17. Determines whether worker is placed right
18. Determines workers ability sooner
19. Helps supervisor’s understanding of instruction and places responsibility on him to do this job
20. Makes instruction an operational tool

The bottom-line benefit is a better trained workforce.  If fast, efficient and effective training will make your people more productive and your organization more profitable, then Job Instruction Training will be beneficial to you.