Variability in Skill Training

Adding variability into the learning process will enable an individual to progress more effectively and efficiently through the stages of learning. 

Skill acquisition is about performing ‘perfect repetition’ in an environment that encourages adaptation and progression by constantly asking different questions of your subconscious system.

There are 4 stages of learning and skill acquisition:

• UNSKILLED-UNCONSCIOUS
• UNSKILLED-CONSCIOUS
• SKILLED-CONSCIOUS
• SKILLED-UNCONSCIOUS

Trainers/Experts/Advisors/Coach - are guides to the candidate subconscious systems. The candidate cannot consciously control how their brains shuffle through the adaptive systems of training nor can coaches control the exact way in which their nervous systems process stimuli and the exact mechanical manifestations from that process. 

The best that can be done is to put a candidate/individual in an environment that helps to promote the way we want them to adapt.

There are four different ways to induce specific power variability into skill training:

• Complex training
• Fatigue induced learning
• Same but Different
• Induced randomness/chaos

“The frequency of practice is the key to assimilating a skill”

**Clues for aspirants of WorldSkills India/India Skills (candidates/trainers), NSDC Training partners who wish to induce quality