“Next week, we will close the training department. We are shifting our focus from training to performance. Any remaining training staff will become mentors, coaches and facilitators who work on improving core business processes, strengthening relationships with customers and cutting costs.”
That’s a pitch Jay Cross offers in his column on Effectiveness in the February 2009 edition of CLO magazine. It offers a glimpse of possibilities in an age of impending doom. Read it that way.
Impending doom unfreezes organizational structure to make room for reorganizing, rearranging and replacing the status quo. Survivors will develop and present agendas for change while things are in flux.
(JC)
Get Out of the Training Business | Informal Learning Blog | Jay Cross | 31 January 2009
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So, Janet, do you buy my thesis? I’m trying to rattle L&D people’s cages hard enough to shake them out of complacency. This is the time for action, not patience while awaiting the fall of the axe. That’s just my opinion; I might be wrong.
jay
Hi Jay
Yes, I do buy it. It seems to me though that people hunker down at times like this. As much as I think the innovators of the industry will forge ahead, my gut tells me that the masses will crank out the type of training that has dominated corporate training for the past several years – more rapid elearning made with rapid development tools. (Not that there isn’t a need for some of that)
Attitude is key. Your attitude, for instance, is motivating. So keep shakin’ it up Jay!