You want to develop the skills of your employees through vocational training ? Offer them an educational path that is closest to reality and their expectations? AFEST, also called on-the-job training action, can be a solution.
But do you know what this acronym means? How should it be set up? Who is concerned?
Answer in this article.
AFEST: definition
AFEST stands for Workplace Training Action. Its purpose is to promote the training of unskilled workers. In this way, it helps them to develop and acquire skills according to their job. The learner is trained on his workstation, on dedicated and arranged times.
Any employee can benefit from this training method regardless of the nature of his contract and his length of service.
It mobilizes 4 actors:
- Thelearner : main actor
- the AFEST referent: builds the training and coordinates the various actors
- the business expert: participates in the construction of training
- The managers operational: their involvement is necessary for the smooth running of the training
4 legal criteria specify the conditions for the implementation of a training action in a work situation (Decree No. 2018-1341 of December 28, 2018):
- Analysis of work activity: if necessary, adapt it for educational purposes
- Prior designation of a pedagogical trainer who can exercise a tutoring function
- Implementation of reflexive phases distinct from work situations
- Specific evaluations of the learning outcomes that mark out or conclude the action
In which case should you use AFEST?
AFEST may be of interest to all companies, especially those with specific expertise.
A company can use AFEST to respond to these 3 situations:
- Facilitating internal mobility
- Train a new employee to take up a position (during onboarding)
- Support skills changes according to the evolution of the market or the position. This last situation makes it possible to be in compliance and to integrate new legal or technological constraints.
Attention, it does not replace other existing teaching methods.
The benefits for the various stakeholders
For learners:
- Facilitates the development of skills : this modality makes it possible to develop specific skills that are often very similar and in line with lived professional situations.
For businesses:
- Facilitates relationships : AFEST facilitates relationships between managers and learners in particular
- Saves time and money : it does not require too much equipment and therefore reduces costs
How to set it up?
For AFEST to become a lever for managing the skills of your employees and for certification, it must be integrated into a training policy with other educational methods.
Therefore, to set it up, it must follow certain steps:
- Identify skills to be developed or acquired based on analyzed work situations
- Organization, supervision and scheduling From AFEST
- Appoint a trainer, whether internal or external, who is in a position to organize a training course with reflection phases and theoretical phases
- Set up valuations to measure learning outcomes
What to remember
- AFEST promotes the training of unskilled workers
- All businesses can use AFEST
- All employees can benefit from it regardless of the type of contract
- It mobilizes 4 actors: the learner, the managers, the trainer and the referent
- It is not a substitute for other existing teaching methods.
