Monday, June 1, 2009

TP vs. Corporate "Training"

Tom Peters poses a thought provoking question here:

Why does corporate America devote so little time to training?

He compares corporate training to military training. The military trains ALL THE TIME. I just watched the Marines Corp Mountain Survival reality tv show the other day.

I love Tom's question of closing stores 1 day a week for training. How much revenue would be lost that day versus revenue made during the rest of the 6 days. I bet you would grow revenue in a heartbeat.

Here's an idea...a training course on how and why to run a meeting. Require everyone to go through it until they figure it out.

If they don't figure it out, send them to Mountain Survival School. :)

Why you DO think we don't spend money on training?

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