Category Archives: Treatment Process

Treatments and Procedures to fix training department issues

Creating From Scratch

Most of my work with corporate training departments involve determining how to make the existing training operation more productive.  The process of diagnosing the health of the function is separating what is working well from what is not working as … Continue reading

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Is Training Worth Keeping?

In an age of saving every penny possible, and getting back every nickel spent, it boggles my mind why training department managers are not going out of their way to prove that their function should be the last to go … Continue reading

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Proposing Solutions

I honestly wish that before people get the title of Training Manager they would have to pass a written test, and one that includes writing a basic training proposal with identified solutions.  Too many training managers are sent out looking for a training … Continue reading

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Avoiding The Problem Won’t Make It Go Away!

For most of us, when we become ill we seek out medical assistance so we can rid ourselves of whatever is making us sick.  We have learned that the longer we put off getting treatment, the harder it is for … Continue reading

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Not Everything Is On The Job Training

I met with a Managing Director this week about how training is conducted for their 100+ employees, and he said at the moment they do on the job training.  I countered, “for everything?”  To which I got a very long “Yeahhhh?” My … Continue reading

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Facilitating Virtual Learning

Just because you know how to deliver content in a classroom facilitated event, does not automatically mean that you will be able to ace the transition to the virtual learning environment.  With webinar learning becoming more and more the future … Continue reading

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Schedule The Surgery

As I wrote in the purpose of The Training Physical, my hope was that training managers would be the primary reader of the book so I wrote to them as the reader.  I also hoped that senior leaders in the … Continue reading

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Training The Missing Skills

One of the key areas to evaluate in any training operation is to make a list of the skills that have been trained, are being trained and the skills left on the to do list.  With recent news that recruiters … Continue reading

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Cleaning Out The Storeroom

One of the most common disaster areas in a training environment is the storage room.  It is stuffed full of both current and ancient training materials and supplies.  I will bet right now you have at least a box of … Continue reading

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Hospice Care for Training Departments

Whenever I hear the word hospice, I am immediately drawn into what appears to be the final days of someone’s life because of a serious illness that there is no other treatment or cure that can turn things around.  But … Continue reading

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