Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Long ago, in my career as a learning and development specialist, I designed employee training. My goal was to help various levels of employees understand better and embrace an organization’s goals, and work to achieve them.

Yesterday, I learned that the department store where I work as a part-time clerk must address some challenging goals. Meeting those goals calls for boosting the energy of front-line staff. When our store manager told me about this, my mind activated my training brain.

Last night, I drafted a couple of proposals to address some training-related challenges. For me, that was duck soup: I could create training and development routines in my sleep.

There’s a problem in modern organizations. They don’t offer in-person training and development activities. Companies today provide online goals and skills training. Although perhaps well-presented, hours on the receiving end of computer-generated training can turn learners into brain-dead, unabsorbing beings.

Today, I will take my training proposals to work. Hopefully, the Store’s management team will discuss the suggestions, and all or some will resonate. Improving ways of training staff would help line personnel more fully understand and focus on key goals, to achieve more of them.

Dear Friends: Regardless of the outcome, finding my mojo again is fun. Diana