The current “training scam” is causing a serious concern to human resources
managers in many organizations in the country.
Many are tired of having their staff taken away from their jobs to
attend training only to have them return without any more useful skills than
they’ve acquired hither to. They are tired of having to do training because
staff and some so called experts outside the organizations preached to them the
gospel of training their people so that the institutions can develop. They are bored with let’s-have-fun trainers
littered around in the country whose concern are with the quality of their own
performance rather than the performance of the trainees they are expected to
serve. In fact many corporate
organizations are weighed down by numerous requests which all manners of
trainers carry about in their suit cases persuading institutions to patronize
them for more training than their needs, or imposing their excessive training
hardware on their clients to embrace. At Market Link Consults, we are not in the
business of training because the company down the street is into it. We are
into training because there are things
that people cannot do; yet they need to be able to them, so that they can
perform their jobs well under the current globalization. Our belief is that
training for any other reason is a fraud. For this purpose, two major rules guide our
training:
Rule 1 - Training is appropriate only when two conditions
are present: there is something that one or more people don’t
know how to do; and the need to be able to do it.
Rule 2 - If they already know
how to do it, more training won’t help.
