Is it time for a better you and a better way to train executives and high potentials? <\/span><\/p>\n

According to Huthwaite, a leading training company, 30 days after a one or two-day training event, participants lose, on average, 87% of the skills they were meant to acquire.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why? Training is an attempt to expand your range of thoughts and behaviors–essentially to make a better you. Without repetition, reinforcement, and ongoing correction<\/a>, people simply cannot unlearn old skills and acquire new ones. <\/span><\/p>\n

This is true of all behavioral training, sales training, presentation training, or customer service training.<\/span><\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the answer? Daniel Kahneman<\/a>, the Nobel winning psychologist, provides a simple formula. <\/span><\/p>\n

“Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.”<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cA regular environment\u201d implies a calm, ordered approach to coaching. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAn adequate opportunity to practice\u201d implies taking the time to prepare, rehearse, and role play the new behavior until the skill sinks in.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions” means real time coaching on both theory and practice–nipping mistakes in the bud. <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet despite ancient common sense and the science of Nobel laureates, businesses continue to insist on offering one-or-two-day training programs to their employees.<\/span><\/p>\n

Get it right the first time. When you invest in your people, make sure you get real change. Give them an environment conducive to growth, adequate practice time, and a coach who is capable of giving unequivocal feedback. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it time for a better you and a better way to train executives and high potentials? According to Huthwaite, a leading training company, 30 days after a one or two-day training event, participants lose, on average, 87% of the skills they were meant to acquire. Why? Training is an attempt to expand your range… Read More »The Secret of Good Corporate Training<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[88,145,146,185,78],"yoast_head":"\n