All too often organizations make the same age old mistakes when choosing and implementing a training program. Below is a list of 10 common training mistakes that organizations make time and time again.

1. Trying to fit too much content into the simulation
2. Trying to encapsulate too many different storylines/ perspectives
3. Addressing too many topics
4. Not having designated subject matter experts in the organization
5. Changing the course of the project near the end when management finally looks at it
6. Being unrealistic in what to train on and who the training is for
7. Being too general in the target audience
8. Not being able to fit a training program in the budget
9. Skimping on training now that could have prevented accidents/ poor job performance later
10. Not thinking ahead by building to a matrix that cross-leverages content and makes future changes or updates easy and inexpensive

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Being a cowgirl at heart, I know that in some areas of the country ranchers can run their cattle herds anywhere they want unless a property owner fences them out, otherwise known as ‘Open Range.’ So you may be thinking to yourself… what in the heck does this have to do with NPC’s or better known as Non-Player Characters? Well… in a virtual world one can have free roaming (otherwise referred to as ‘open range’) NPC’s wandering around. The approach of a controlled or intelligent virtual world environment offers the use of Non-Player Characters to guide the trainee through the simulation exercises while NOT allowing these NPC’s to wander around in the ‘open range’ if you will. Rather these NPC’s have specific purposes to their actions and interactions with the trainees. Virtual world training inside a smart fence, so to speak.

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