Basics: Performance Based Learning

I ran across the following point in an ISPI newsletter article "Is your training truly performance-based? Seven keys to unlocking the power of performance-based training."

2. Is Training derived directly from the job?
It’s common sense, but not common practice, that training should be derived from job performance requirements. Before design or development begins, you must first determine (for each job task) precisely what it is you want the learner to be able to do. If you are unclear about what the performance target is, the learner will be too. True performance-based training is designed from the job out. This eliminates all “knowledge transfer” issues.

It's one of those oh-so-basic concepts that's easy to lose, but that shocks you with its power when you're reminded of it.