Today’s episode is about, the top mistakes technology leaders make with training programs, and what to do instead.
This is a real topic that I work through with the leaders I work with. There are performance issues on the team and training is going to address them.
I know that you are wasting money on training if you are doing one of these three things:
- You are choosing training based on the title of the training.
- You are sending your team members to training programs to “fix them”.
- You have decided that training is the best way to develop your team.
And because you are doing one of these three things, I know that you are:
- Upset with the trainer for not training on the topic you saw in the training title.
- Confused why your team members haven’t changed after the training.
- Continuing to see your team stay stagnant in their role, performance level, and career.
If you have not seen your team grow in their career for more than 6 months to a year, then I know that you are relying too heavily on training to develop your team.
Inside The Authentic Leader Framework, I coach technology leaders to apply 1 of the 6 Factors of High Performance. When you master all 6, you will see huge results in your team’s development.
We don’t have time to give you all 6 today, so I am going to give one factor about getting the most out of training programs. You will not only increase your confidence in using training programs as a tool for development but also watch your team grow in new and more effective ways almost immediately.
Here are the mistakes that most technology leaders and managers make:
- Because a performance incident on your team just happened, you quickly find a training program to correct the performance.
- Out of frustration of a history of poor performance, you decide this an issue that has to be fixed and you decide to use training to fix the issue.
- You know that part of your job is to develop your team by giving them new skills, but you don’t have a consistent tool to identify what they need most.
The problem of doing that is that you and your team start to see training as a waste of time and you not only spend your valuable budget but more importantly spend valuable time only to make little or no progress.
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