OPERATION VULCAN: 12 the broad view of improving total performance

So far, in this Vulcan series, I have described how the analytical movement completely revolutionised training for physical skills in the post‐World War 2 period. The two main weapons were job analysis and skills analysis. Job analysis provides the trainer with carefully‐defined objectives against which he can measure his own performance in terms of company objectives. Skills analysis, based on the concept of the sensory perceptions controlling the physical movements in continuous feed‐back, provides him with a tool for understanding and recording a skill, thus enabling him to communicate the various separate elements of any particular skill. These ideas had been developed in the UK from 1940 onwards but they did not make any significant impact on the working environment until the training boards adopted them, formalised them and to some extent simplified them and then popularised them from about 1965 onwards. In many countries this particular aspect of the training job has not yet been accomplished.