Preventing a relapse or setting goals - Elucidating the impact of post-training transfer interventions on training transfer performance

Based on a review of the literature on post-training transfer interventions, this paper offers a conceptual model that elucidates potential mechanisms through which two types of post-training transfer intervention (relapse prevention and proximal plus distal goal setting) influence the transfer of training. We explain how the application of post-training transfer interventions enhances trainees’ readiness and motivation to use newly trained skills in the workplace, which in turn helps trainees to retain and apply the new skills to the job. Explaining this process provides a better insight into how training transfer performance is affected by post-training transfer interventions and trainee attitudes.