Management Training, Sales Training, Whatever . . . Why It Doesn’t Stick – ATD
Posted: September 27, 2019 at 12:46 am
After working in various industries, in various capacities, at companies of all sizes and shapes for more than 45 years, something is still a mystery to me: why training programs stick?
I may be the most over-trained individual you'll ever meet. My career started about the same time as Tom Peters and Bob Waterman published In Search of Excellence, a book that spawned an entire industry of corporate improvement initiatives that lives on today.
I took every course my employers offeredsome of them multiple times. I just could not get enough of getting better.
Part of that was ingrained because I was an athlete, a teacher, and a coach. I was used to going to practice every day, and even when I put on a suit and tie and nice shoes, I still wanted that edge that comes from daily practice.
I wanted, desperately, to learn. To sell better, to write better, to manage better, to think better.
And it wasn't about money because I never made much. Learning was good enough. Being good enough was good enough for me.
The problem is that training and development are human enterprises and in that nature are inherently flawed, misguided, mismanaged, and wasteful. Human capital, then, is still the most mismanaged asset in the world of work.
I think I know why.
Employee skills by themselves are not enough to create companies that operate on all cylinders all the time.
Everyone has worked in organizations that have had so much dysfunction going on that we couldn't overcome it well enough to keep the place moving forward. So, I have concluded that the work environmentthe cultureis as much a part of the answer as the training and development programs that are in place.
There are numerous concepts that seem obvious precursors to high employee satisfaction and performance, such as teamwork, profit-sharing, participative decision-making, autonomy, and sound job design.
We're also pretty sure that well-managed companies attract good people who, because they work at a cool place, tend to get close to their potential, and the cycle perpetuates itself as long as the managers who built the environment stick around.
It's circular. And it's difficult. And, often, it is unsustainable. And good training isn't always the answer. But you can "beat the system" when you have these things going for you:
When you are lacking in any of these vital areas, you are doomed to failure sooner or later. Though, on paper, all this does not sound that difficult to do.
Keep this in mind when you decide that the only difference between your company and sustainable success is a good training program. You may be wrong.
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Management Training, Sales Training, Whatever . . . Why It Doesn't Stick - ATD
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