The Educated Training Consumer

Overview: Training and development activities can increase the capabilities and abilities of most organizations. Virtually every recent management leaders, have stressed the importance of learning as a primary tool for organizational success. The article describes about the training concept some people have different views for training. Ten years ago, training was often regarded as a pleasant break from work, a chance to learn a few things and meet others. Now overworked staff are more hesitant to even attend. Being away from the workplace for a day means that somehow a day's work must be made up. It defines different problems with training process like trainers are often more interested in selling a program than helping staff in improving performance or organization effectiveness. Number of tips are provided in the article to over come this problems. If you are hesitant about investing in training, you should know that your concerns are probably well founded. The training field is full of well-meaning but ill-equipped trainers, even in prestigious firms. Unfortunately, less competent trainers give the field a bad name, but rest assured there is a lot of good training carried out by skilled professionals. The trick is to identify them, and their strengths.

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Format: HTML | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 1