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July 15, 2010 - ISSN# 1545-2646
It is 5:30am, the alarm goes off and your body tells you – GO BACK TO SLEEP!
Your mind on the other hand steps in and tells your body that the only way to develop yourself is to get going and do the things that you don’t necessarily want to be doing but need to. This is true whether toning your muscles for physical shape or toning your brain matter for intellectual endeavors.
Over the course of time, I have personally taken lots of training classes on all kind of subjects. Some of these knowledge investments were pretty enlightening and some were just plain torture at the time. I kind of relate those that I was not all that excited about to lifting weights or running a mile. I can intellectually understand and appreciate that both of those physical activities are good for my body. Physically and mentally I would have rather been doing something else.
I compare this to training and development in the workplace. Most all of your employees can see the potential benefit of a training event. They get exposed to some technique or information that will help them in their job role. In reality they are there, sitting in the chair, counting the minutes before break, lunch or the end of the day.
These are the lows of development and they will always be in every training session. Even if your personal training is tone, fit and either handsome or gorgeous depending on your gender, they will still have you doing some training that you might not necessarily want or enjoy. You do it because it will make you better so you justify the pain until it is over.
In the work setting, development is critical to moving your business forward. Maybe it will take the formal approach or informal mentor/coaching style. Either way the process of development requires the discipline to move through the pain to realize the rewards on the other side.
Yes, I could sugar coat training and development but where does that actually get you. Some won’t experience the pain as great as others but all in all the investment into training is not for the benefit of the people providing the training. It is for the individual involved with it to help them grow in their job role.
This week, come clean and help your team understand that training is critical to the future success of the business. Not significantly different than waking up at 5:30am to take the one mile jog. Very important but the medicine tastes bitter.
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