This is the second in a series of articles intended to introduce you to Continuous Improvement (CI), and give some practical tips for using CI in your maritime organization to improve training effectiveness and efficiency.

Continuous Improvement (or CI for short) is the process of continually analysing the performance of some aspect of operations, and then applying changes intended to improve that performance. This is the third and final installment in a series of articles intended to introduce you to CI, and to give some practical tips for using CI in your maritime organization to improve training effectiveness and efficiency.

This is part 2 of a post which discusses the use of a private, online trainer community for the trainers in your maritime organization. Over the last year or so I have been involved in helping create one for the British Columbia Ferry Services and I believe it is one of the easiest and most effective ways to improve training outcomes and standardization in your company.

Most people find that an established professional community is one of their most critical and often used professional resources. In my last two blog posts I introduced the idea of using a "Private Professional Network" (or PPC for short) within your organization to create a community for your trainers. In this blog, I complete this thread by talking a bit about how to "bootstrap" the community or get it off the ground.

This series of articles is a “how to” primer for implementing continuous improvement in maritime familiarization training. Even a modest program can yield significant results.