---
id: "action-pilot-xr"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Getting Started"]
tags: ["pilot-program", "implementation"]
related: ["framework-xr-implementation"]
action: "Pilot XR technology with 50-100 volunteers on a specific, historically difficult training problem."
outcome: "A controlled environment to test efficacy before encountering scale-related bottlenecks."
speakers: ["Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio"]
sources: ["reskilling"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-reskilling"
originDay: 10
articleStem: "hbr-edu-33-new-tools-workforce-training"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/12/the-new-tools-that-can-improve-workforce-training"
sourceTitle: "The New Tools That Can Improve Workforce Training"
---
# Pilot XR with a Targeted Group (50–100 volunteers)

## Pilot XR with a Targeted Group

**Action:** Do not attempt to solve all training issues at once. Identify a **single difficult problem** where traditional training fails, select the appropriate XR tool via the [[framework-xr-modality-selection|selection matrix]], and start with a **pilot group of 50 to 100 volunteers**.

**Expected outcome:** a controlled environment to test efficacy *before* encountering scale-related bottlenecks. This is step 3 of the [[framework-xr-implementation|XR Implementation Strategy]]; the next step is [[action-scale-xr-carefully|scaling carefully]].