Total task chaining involves teaching the entire behavior chain providing prompts and reinforcement for each step as needed It is particularly efficient when learners already possess some or all of the component skills or when the chain is not excessively long or complex for the learner In this scenario the employees are already fluent with most of the original 15 steps By using total task chaining the supervisor can prompt and teach only the three new steps allowing the employees to perform the known steps independently thus leveraging their existing skills and making the training process more efficient than reteaching the entire chain from scratch using forward or backward chaining Forward chaining teaches the chain from the first step forward and backward chaining teaches from the last step backward both of which would involve unnecessary repetition of already learned steps in this specific context Behavioral momentum is a strategy used to increase compliance by preceding lowprobability requests with highprobability requests not a chaining procedure