Practical Advice for Training and Getting Trained

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Practical Advice for Training and Getting Trained

There are many approaches to training (and learning SAP R/3). Here are some things learned from other projects:

• Slides and conceptual overviews are often overused . If you're spending more than 25 percent of your training time on concepts and overheads, you're spending too much time on it.

• Get hands-on training. The more time you spend with your hands on the keyboard, the more you will learn.

• Ask questions. The instructor should know more about SAP than you do, but you know more about your job. Ask about the exceptions. Think of problems that have happened in the past. A good instructor may not be able to answer all of these off the top of his head, but he can take them back to the project team.

• Have access to a practice system. Nothing evaporates as quickly as training that you have no chance to use.

TIP

Sharpe's Law  

Unapplied training has a half life of about five working days. If you don't use it within a week, you lose half of it. Within two weeks, you lose three quarters of it. Within three weeks, some of the words sound vaguely familiar.

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