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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Elevator Speech- The truth about training




My Elevator Speech.



Hello, my name is Folashade Fawehinmi. I am an Instructional designer in the making. I am not surprised about your take on training. Stolovitch, (n.d.) noted, “Training skills are necessary to perform, but not sufficient alone”.  If you give me a minute, I will clarify some of your concerns.  Let’s reflect on the economic issues in this country, training is considered unnecessary, and   some organizations are cutting back on training and development of their employees (Noe, 2010). The truth is training alignment with business strategy provides the roadmap for any organization to accomplish its goals. Training should be structured and focused on getting employees to consistently reproduce behavior without variation, but with increasing greater efficiency even if conditions change.  Stolovitch (n.d). If these words are not true after a training encounter, there is a training performance gap in your system.  
In reality, training should be designed to prepare employees for competency on the job. Training makes our job relevant and connects to the overall business strategy of the organization, while it makes employees proud and appreciated.
Employees need continuous learning to compete in this evolving world of knowledge and new technologies, and this is fundamental to organization’s sustenance and employee’s performance.
Thank you.
References.
Noe, R. A. (2010). Employee training and development (5th Ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.
Stolovitch, H. (n.d) “The Truth about Training” Laureate Video.

7 comments:

  1. Hi Folashade,
    I look forward to follow your blog.
    -Neal

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  2. I will be following your blog post and sometimes make comments.

    David

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  3. Folashade,

    Nice elevator speech.

    I agree with your comment “Training skills are necessary to perform, but not sufficient alone”. Too many managers feel that if a person was taught a skill or knowledge one day the next day they are trained and able to preform at their expected standards. Thanks for blogging and pointing this misconception out.

    Sandra

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  4. Thanks for your feedback Sandra. As professionals in the making, we should intensify efforts to connect training to employees performance.

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  5. Hi Folashade,

    I enjoyed listening to your elevator speech, especially this part, "Training should be structured and focused on getting employees to consistently reproduce behavior without variation, but with increasing greater efficiency even if conditions change." This comment reminded me of an autistic adult I had to job coach for a clothing store. He was trained to take the clothes out of the boxes and put them on hangers to be ready to be placed on store display. As he got use to is area and was working independently he started to modify the hanger installation on the clothes. Because of his modification the manager noticed he was completing more than the quoted number per hour, the manager later had changed the quoted number of 4 boxes per hour to 6 boxes per hour.

    -Neal

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  6. Hello Neal,
    Thanks for your feedback.

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  7. Folashade,
    I liked the fact that you emphasized that training must align with the business strategy and provide a roadmap for the organization to accomplish it's goals. What organizational strategy would your training address? You made a very good point that training needs to make the job relevant and the employee valued,while connecting the job to the overall business strategy for the organization.
    Mike

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