Thursday, July 2, 2009

Challenging Business Leaders to Be Trainers

Knowledge organizations have training teams with inherent credibility due to the existing fact that they are the business. In addition learning organizations' trainers are typically fully engaged in sharing the risk of success and failure on work projects fully challenged as business managers/trainers assuring the business lines that training is their team. Instead of being the last entity in a project with this model training owns early positioning on projects and ensures involvement all through.

Where this model is followed, trainers are already members of industry associations and are already reading industry newspapers and periodicals that highlight the industry's business because they come from line management. Every organization has a sphere of influence that identifies it's added value to the organization. Internal training has suffered serious setbacks in recent years indicated by widespread departmental cut backs and outsourcing across all industries, of all sizes, in this country. In organizations that see the contributed value of the training team, they see trainers as leaders who share the needed tools or techniques within the organization. These organizations encourage the training team to associate the results of the interventions loud and clear from the access of the highest levels of the company and prove the worth of training's efforts. Since line managers always appreciate a bottom-line approach but are reluctant to change the process of the approach, organizational leadership that want to encourage continuous improvement select quality trainers-as-leaders that are positive and proactive role models and historically, are proven business partners. In many cases, training positions within the knowledge-oriented organization becomes a revolving job in which growth and visibility are the obvious outcomes for the business-based individual.

Knowledge organizations have training teams with inherent credibility due to the existing fact that they are the business. In addition, learning organizations' trainers are typically fully engaged in sharing the risk of success and failure on work projects, fully challenged as business managers/trainers, assuring the business lines that training is their team. Instead of being the last entity in a project, with this model, training owns early positioning on projects and ensures involvement all through. Every organization has a sphere of influence that identifies it's added value to the organization. Internal training has suffered serious setbacks in recent years indicated by widespread departmental cut backs and outsourcing across all industries, of all sizes, in this country. In organizations that see the contributed value of the training team, they see trainers as leaders who share the needed tools or techniques within the organization. These organizations encourage the training team to associate the results of the interventions loud and clear from the access of the highest levels of the company and prove the worth of training's efforts. Being perceived as the hands-on business advisor is an impossible role to play without hands-on business experience. Line managers know the paths to achieve business status in the organizations - they are tough roads and hardly ever directly positioned for the boardroom. Most of all, progressive businesses want training not to just receive recognition, they want training to earn it. With training departments staffed with individuals who know the true nature of the business and who get to know business area partners, it becomes a win-win opportunity. As learning organizations encourage their unit staff leaders to understand and participate in training, all of their action meetings and special projects will become raised to the level of its internal trainer expertise, its internal trainer relationships and most importantly, its internal trainer credibility. Every organization has a sphere of influence that identifies it's added value to the organization. Internal training has suffered serious setbacks in recent years indicated by widespread departmental cut backs and outsourcing across all industries, of all sizes, in this country.

No comments:

Post a Comment

LinkWithin

Blog Widget by LinkWithin