In-company continuing education

Have you ever seen an athlete improve through just one training session or so? Or have you ever seen an athlete who trains for a few years and then stops training? Hardly without continuing education will you see him go into competition or achieve satisfactory results.

In the professional and corporate world, on the other hand, people stop preparing and studying assiduously once they finish their school and college studies. Or at work they participate in training courses that, in the vast majority of cases, have no connection to immediate daily application.

It is like an athlete learning a new technique with a new coach, but then going back to training or competing, not applying and experiencing anything they learned. What result will it have? Surely the new technique will be forgotten in a short time.

What have I seen in my experience? It is only when people set out to cultivate and “train” the notions they have learned that it is possible to observe consolidation of new real skills and thus observe behaviors that change permanently.

It is not enough, therefore, to take a course or read a book to enable lasting behavioral change.

In-company training must therefore be designed as a continuous “training” process, with cycles of study, field experimentation, feedback and insights, until a change in individual behavior is achieved.