"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."  - Homer, BC 65-88

 

When properly designed and delivered, training is a wonderful tool. Effective training builds and maintains peak performance. Yet, training can fail miserably if the Trainer lacks the necessary knowledge, skill, or attitude. 

 

Insufficient Business Skill and Awareness

Trainers often lack an overall understanding of the true, real life, perspective of the ever dynamic world of business operations, systems, and processes.

Insufficient Breadth of Knowledge Synthesis and Systems Thinking 

Many trainers have too little professional knowledge, skills, or experience in important related fields to effectively ensure proper knowledge synthesis and systems thinking.

Insufficient Management & Leadership Experience

Trainers often have not functioned as a manager or leader; therefore, they may lack the ability to consider the training needs through the eyes of management.


Insufficient Customization

Every company and every situation is in fact unique and different.  Often the training is a canned rehash, off the shelf, of old material created for “generic learning.”  As a consequence, the training lacks high specificity, relevance, and timeliness to the client’s actual needs.

Dead, Deader, & Deadest Delivery

Adult Learners demand interesting, relevant, participatory and fun educational experiences.  All too often, Trainers lack the charisma, dynamism, and humor to adequately provide the three E’s:  Education, Enthusiasm, and Entertainment.

Insufficient Connection to True Needs

Too many trainings fail to impart needed knowledge, skills, and application. Fads and fashionable trends replace real business learning.


Relationship to Meaningful Outcomes

Training must address identifiable and specific needs.  Often, training fails to connect the content to a measurable outcome such as the development of individualized knowledge and particularized skill sets or the production of a specific corporate benefit.

Insufficient Commitment to the Company

Sadly, Trainers may be more interested in conveying their personal social agendas than teaching traditional, reliable, relevant business skills.

Insufficient Loyalty to the Fundamental Business Paradigm

Sometimes, Trainers may portray management as the adversary or even the enemy which quickly leads to organizational strife and dysfunction.

Insufficient Support and Championing From Executive Management

Success starts from the very top-Executive Management. The trainer often fails to obtain a full and sincere commitment from management to champion training.