two cents: training happens
Training workshops have always been a way of rewarding our staff by showing them that we’re investing in them. As budgets have been shrinking we started to evaluate the impact of training on the business. We found out that most employees were not applying what they learned. Do we have the wrong staff or are training workshops useless?
Imagine a child that doesn’t turn in his homework, doesn’t participate in group-discussions, and doesn’t do any projects, only to find his name on top of the list of students going to the Natural History Museum in London. That is what comes to my mind when someone tells me that they use training as a ‘reward’ tool in their organization. Investing in staff is a good thing. Investing in the right staff is a smart thing. And now that training budgets have been cut, slashed and murdered in some cases, investing in the right people for the sake of developing the business in the near future becomes more essential than ever.
One of the main reasons why training workshops have a short-term effect is because most of them are designed to give you information about a topic and explain quickly how to get there. Rarely, would you find a training program that provides you with a roadmap for applying the new changes and that is supported by guidance and consultation. Homo sapiens are creatures of habit. A two-day or even two-week workshop can’t permanently change years of certain behavior. If training is the key to start the car, coaching is the fuel to keep it going…and that’s just my two cents.
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Tags: Employee development, Rewarding staff, Training
