The Comprehensive Attention Training Program
Our comprehensive attention training program . . .
. . . is designed to
- educate frontline workers about the science of human attention,
- provide practical attention strategies that employees can practice to optimize their attention performance, and
- apply scientific concepts to real examples of attention-related accidents and incidents.
This program can be presented in either a 4-hour or 1-day training session.
The science of human attention is delivered in a series of accessible and engaging videos (roughly 10 min each), narrated by Dr. Daniel Smilek, a top researcher scientist who studies human attention and error.
Using demonstrations and captivating examples, the videos introduce key scientific findings and concepts relevant to human attention and attention-related errors. In addition, each of the videos culminates in a concrete attention strategy that frontline employees can practice to optimize their attention performance.
The topics covered include:
- The limits of the human vision
- The limits of human spatial attention
- The dangers of operation overload and multitasking
- The dangers of operational underload and mind wandering
- The link between stress and human attention
- Worry, rumination and unfinished tasks and how they affect attention performance
- How habits can be exploited by unusual situations to cause attention-related errors
- Fatigue, nutrition, exercise and their role in attention performance
- Training attention control
- Human attention and the power of intrinsic motivation
In our live training sessions, safety expert Randall Jamieson follows each video segment with a description of actual attention-related accidents and incidents, which illustrate the scientific concepts learned. In addition, Mr. Jamieson leads trainees in practicing and customizing the attention strategies described.
Coaching
Employees complete the Comprehensive Attention Training Program and then what? Most other programs just stop there. Not us!
Safety exert Randall Jamieson provides ongoing coaching for employees who are applying the attention strategies learned during the Comprehensive Attention Training Program. Providing ongoing coaching is an effective way to keep employees motivated to implement the attention strategies they have learned and to guide them as they work towards peak attention performance.
The Train-the-Trainer Program
We won't leave you hanging. We provide an attention training manual for trainers.
If your organization already has a team of trainers, we can train them to deliver the Comprehensive Attention Training Program, and to integrate the program with your existing training regime. Trainers typically first complete our Comprehensive Attention Training Program. They then complete our Train-the-Trainer Program, which adds depth to the concepts in the Comprehensive Attention Training Program. Trainers have access to our science videos as well as additional presentation slides and a complete training manual. The training manual includes suggested speaking notes for the presentation slides as well as "In Focus" boxes, which contain additional background information and references for further reading.