BayFirst offers a wide range of training products for government agencies and private sector corporations, from national defense and homeland security to transportation and telecommunications. Leveraging our strong program management and systems engineering expertise, we collaboratively help our customers to systematically link their organizational strategy to the performance of their workforce, always focusing achievement of their goals upon the convergence of people, processes, and technology. We help them understand and design processes that can increase performance in the workplace, increasing the transfer, accessibility and effectiveness of learning for the individual and the organization.
Our learning and consulting services include:
Human Performance Technology
Organizations are only as effective as their human performers. They have a strategic need for systems that can help them improve effectiveness of their workforce. The application of Human Performance Technology (HPT) brings BayFirst’s strong systems engineering approach to this problem. We help our clients attain desired accomplishments from human performers, collaboratively assessing the needs of our clients and analyzing these needs within the context of their cost, schedule, and technical feasibility constraints. Using Front-end Analysis (FEA), Job Task Analysis (JTA) and other performance analysis tools, we collaboratively identify gaps and possible interventions, helping the client determine instructional strategies and developing the content and delivery process as well as the evaluation tools necessary to validate the closing of performance gaps. Our holistic, performance focused, and data-driven approach integrates the client’s strategic and budget, linking cost-optimized interventions to the needs and activities of the organization.
E-Learning
Organizations continue to experience new challenges to overcome and new opportunities to be seized. To survive and grow, organizations must be prepared to adapt rapidly to both the planned and the unforeseen. The development and delivery of time-critical training and the ease with which it can be accessed by employees is often a key to gaining competitive advantage.
BayFirst specializes in the application of e-learning development, moving the instructor from the classroom to the desktop, translating materials into a form that facilitates real learning.
Instructional Systems Design
These above services incorporate the proven theories of instructional systems design (ISD). ISD is based on the idea that learning is not as straightforward as many may assume and instead, learning should be developed using orderly processes, bespoken content based on the target audience, and have measurable outcomes.
Regardless of the training vehicle used, ISD includes the following phases:
- Analysis: Determining learning material, audience and skill set
- Design: Mapping and strategizing presentation, practice, remediation and testing of training
- Development: Authoring effective, high-quality technical and learning materials
- Implementation: Project installation
- Evaluation: Collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data