"We're dropping use of the word 'training.' Training materials? Training materials? We don't need any stinking training materials Training is a turn off! Training is what you do to me. Learning is what I do for myself I hope "training" is discontinued on an ongoing bases - requirements change. More sunset laws for training programs. It seems to me that training is fast becoming a taboo word. agree that a lot of training that we've seen is not just ineffective, but an absolute waste of time. Replacing it with learning? MORE >>

Some stray thoughts, in no particular order, gathered over time, on the differences between education and training, from the lens of custom content creation for diverse companies across the world. Education (even vocational education) is far transfer; training is near transfer. Hence the obsession of training with application ( “I don’t care what they learn; I’m only interested in how they do their jobs better” ), with reducing time to competence (the Holy Grail of training), with rapid development (they need everybody to be more competent now ). MORE >>

I fear that diversity training is losing favor among senior executives and HR departments. Vaughn  writing in DiversityOfficerMagazine.com, diversity training started in the 1960s, during the civil rights era, and was about racism and changing the attitudes of white males towards African Americans. The next phase was about inclusiveness in which diversity training was broadened to address breaking down barriers to participation for all people regardless of gender, age, nationality, disabilities, socio-economic background, or sexual orientation. According to Billy E. MORE >>

Recently at a round-table discussion about eLearning in the Commercial Lending industry an interesting point surfaced periodically: “Why is classroom training perceived as being more credible than online training?&#. think that this varies a bit by industry (and commercial banking is not known to be pioneers in the latest technology) but many people believe that classroom training is the “best way&#. Online Training is Just Reading: Unfortunately some online courses are bad…they just put pages in an interface and let participants read. MORE >>

Participants rated the management training program 4.3 Sixty percent said that they have applied the training to their work. We cannot determine from this data if the management training program made a difference for the organization. Unless we’re talking about a training company, training is a means to an end, not an end in itself. This is how Maggie Bayless, head of training at Zingerman’s, a “Small Giant” company in Ann Arbor, Michigan, describes this link between training and business results. on a five-point scale. Not much. MORE >>