training manual
How-to guide document
A training manual is a document that teaches someone how to perform specific tasks or use particular equipment.
Companies create training manuals for new employees; software comes with training manuals explaining its features.
The term implies structured, step-by-step instruction rather than reference material: The training manual walked us through each procedure.
- handbookCompact reference guide
- guidebookReference for travelers
- instructionsGuidance on how to proceed
- standard operating proceduresDocumented routine processes
- proceduresSet methods for tasks
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- guidesguide, research guide, guidebook, tour guide, hiking guide
- how-to guideshandbook, how-to book, tutorial, quick start guide, troubleshooting guide
- learning resourcestutorials, library, textbook, guides, study guides
- manualshandbook, instructions, instruction booklet, instruction book, reference
- tutorialstutorial, how-tos, quick start guide, tutorial video, step-by-step guide
training manualhands-on experience
Learning through direct involvement
practical experience · on-the-job training · learning by doing · apprenticeship · trial and error
training manualimprovisation
Spontaneous, unplanned creation
winging it · intuition · instinct · guesswork · ad-libbing
training manualoral tradition
Culture passed by speech
tacit knowledge · tribal knowledge · word of mouth · institutional memory · unwritten rules
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