We all know what it feels like to attend bad training or professional development session. If you are like me, you might even have a pretty visceral reaction, or worse, you can’t remember the training at all.
So what are some of the signs of lousy professional training?
- You have no idea why you are there or what you are supposed to get out of the training.
- You feel resentful about being there and wish you could be anywhere else.
- Despite how hard you try, you can’t stay focused and keep checking your phone, thinking of the other places you would like to be, or things that you would rather do.
- You leave the training not knowing anyone else who was attending the training.
- You are never given the opportunity to share your knowledge or input with the group.
- The instructor-made training tool is what seems like an endless deck of PowerPoint slides, each with approximately 500 words on them.
- Your butt hurts from sitting in one position for hours.
- You leave the training without any verification of understanding from the instructor.
- You leave the training not knowing how any of this intersects with your life and work.
Bad training is a poor investment at best and harmful to your organization’s culture at worst.
We know as participants how to identify lousy training but the traditional training paradigm is so ingrained in us that those usually planning your professional development can’t figure out how to do it any differently. This is where Empowered Development Consulting can help!
We work with organizations to determine goals for training and staff development. We then work backward from those goals to create dynamic and engaging training plans that will shift your staff’s attitudes from: “Oh boy, another training today” to “Yes, training today, score!”
Want to know more about Empowered Development Consulting? Reach out to me, Meghan Scheidel, and find out how Empowered Development Consulting can help you.