Situations that call for instructor-led training

- I don't care how good it is, … you're never going to learn to sing … by taking an online course. … Mastering certain types of tasks demand the experience, … know how, and immediate feedback of an instructor. … Before I talk about the situations that call for it, … let me define instructor-led training, or ILT. … ILT is usually led by one or more instructors … who train a group of individuals. … This training takes place in real-time … and in a space dedicated to training. … When might ILT be appropriate? … Let me give you two general guidelines. … When you are teaching hands-on tasks, … especially those that have a safety component. … Hands-on tasks demand individualized and immediate feedback. … For instance, let's say you need to teach … an aspiring electrician how to wire … an electric panel on a house, … to learn how to do this they actually need to do it, … so in a training space you set up a mock electrical wall, … basically wiring that has no power to it, … the aspiring electrician wires the electrical panel …