Hungry, your ideas are not uncommon, the business environment has changed profoundly in the last 5 years and due to change even more.
It would appear then the basic training
model that trainers/performance consultants etal use needs to remodeled to meet the realities we face.

Nero

Nero,

Thanks for your comments, Yeah, It sure seems like it. I am surprised that any soft skills training get budgeted at all, seeing no one has ever produced a bonafide way of measuring outcomes. If the investment in it doesn't at least perform par with other capital investments, that would be getting your money back plus profit, then why would a CFO want to approve a training budget for it?

Nero -- you lost me.

Laura,

No reply from you yet on my last post.

Joe

Ya know - I had typed up a whole long response to each one of your issues, but it all boils down to one main thing -- If you really don't know how to go about resolving these issues you raise, it's my perception that it's time to get back to basics.

The Accelerated Learning Handbook (Meier) - really good design principles, connection with learners, etc.

High Impact Learning (Brinkerhoff) - the title speaks for itself

Performance Consulting (Robinson and Robinson) - partnership with management, focus on performance and follow-through, extremely good analysis job aids and guideance