What is the goal?

Disappointed in the results of training?  Were you educating instead of training? Did little training actually occur? Was skill training your goal?

 

Most training courses educate, not train, even when the goal is skills training. There is a difference between training and education yet they are often treated as one and the same.  Education is the theory, knowledge and intellectual awareness of a subject or activity. Training gives us the ability to perform or execute a given task or activity.

 

Read the full article to find out more on how training causes competence and education gives knowledge.

What really matters

I was at the shopping mall looking for a few gifts for the "big day" when my phone rang. It was work but quickly switched to shopping, a favorite male subject. Finding the right gift for our wives was the topic.

Since I was in the mall Dave suggested I take notes and copy him outlining everything I see that might make an appropriate gift. Yeah right, like that's about to happen.

So I asked, "What does Gail want". He replied, "Snow tires".  "For Christmas?"  "Well no, I don't think so, but she does want snow tires".

Snow Tires. Hmmm, snow tires I thought as I wondered if he was going to buy her tires for Christmas.  I thought of the cleaver I bought my wife so many years ago; I can still see the look of unconcealed joy on her face when she opened that box. Bad idea... Read the full article to find out what really matters.

JTe's Challenge - Significant expansion resulting in manager burn out

Our client, a major retail chain, was undergoing significant expansion and store renewal to help create a new corporate image.  New managers were unwilling to work the 80 - 100 hour+ work weeks that the previous generation had worked and were looking for a better work/life balance.  Senior managers were leaving faster than they could be replaced.

Read the full case study to find out how JTeManagement used retail specific simulation that would meet the clients needs without customization.... resulting in  lower turnover of all staff, more motivated employees and better work life balance among managers.  JTe to met or exceeded all the client requirements, including having a proven Train The Trainer program that was cost effective

"OK, I get it, it does matter, my decisions do make a difference, how can I help..."