TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01 - TRADOC - U.S. Army

TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01from learning science; of the specific learning activities that support stages of skill acquisitionand that support specific transfer and retention goals based on the unit mission. Soldiers andcommanders will access the prescribed training through reachback, or will use tools available tothem to tailor DL, or simulations to their needs. Automated tools will also support rapidteambuilding, mission planning, and rehearsal to insure that mission-tailored units achieve thelevel of readiness needed for rapid deployment. Unit training will facilitate collaborative trainingof those JIM forces, active component and Army Reserve Soldiers considered most likely todeploy together, based on contingency planning. Like today’s unit training managementstrategies, future strategies will attempt to optimize the time war fighters spend participating intraining, vice preparing for training or conducting administrative duties. Current and futuresystems will harvest, analyze, document, and report individual and collective training status andrequirements, providing feedback on training needs and assisting trainers, Soldiers, and leaders inidentifying training events and resources required to carry out training plans. Technologicalimprovements to unit training management systems over time will make them almost turnkeyoperations. Additionally, improvements in the automation of AARs will greatly reduce theburden of assessment in training events.Application of Human Performance improvement (HPI) TechniquesThe future training and leader development system will also apply approaches that worksynergistically with TLE to optimize Soldier performance. As the needs and expectations forSoldier and leader performance increase in breadth, complexity, and difficulty, the time andresources needed for training and education will increase. Ultimately, the TLE burden maybecome untenable, for both the Soldier and the TLE system, unless other effective and efficientmeans of supporting Soldier performance supplements or reduces the need for training andeducation. To address this issue, the Army will follow the lead of industrial and military humanresource experts who recommend a focus on human performance and selection from a menu ofoptions for improving human performance, rather than sole reliance on training and education. 146Other approaches to improving human performance include but are not limited to recruiting orselecting personnel with the required attributes and skills, and improving the human-machineinterface design (such as, user friendliness of the equipment). These approaches, along withtraining and education, integrate within the overall HPI framework under consideration byTRADOC. The HPI process distinguishes itself by its emphasis on a front-end performanceanalysis to identify the gap between desired and actual performance, and a thorough analysis ofthe cause(s) of the performance problem. Application of HPI analytic techniques will lead todetermination of the most effective solution or set of solutions to a problem. Training and/oreducation will often be part of a blended solution set but seldom the total remedy.Planning for future systems has employed the HPI approach. In addition to embeddedtraining on the equipment platform, future systems will also enhance Soldier performance byproviding automated diagnostics, electronic performance support systems (job performance aids),and reachback to subject matter expertise through the same system that will be used foroperational planning and mission rehearsal. Making these types of performance support availablereduces the amount of time Soldiers must spend in memorization and practice of certain kinds oftasks, thereby increasing the efficiency of training. In the future, HPI approaches may also helpreduce the length of time required for Soldiers to achieve mastery of complex sets of cognitive125