What type of training are you delivering? Most of it is probably work based which means it either enables someone to get a job (includes promotion), enhance their current role or enable them to increase their effectiveness. Does your training really do this? I have added a link to an interesting article about Google and who they hire. Google looks for:
four key qualities in new hires. These include: cognitive ability, or basic problem-solving skills; emergent leadership, meaning a willingness to step up and back as needed; “Googleyness” — the company’s term for a cultural fit; and intellectual humility.
“The least important thing,” Bock says, “is actually ‘do you know how to do the job?’”
Google doesn’t represent every company but there are many out there who are changing to this style of recruitment.
So is your training really training people with the qualities they need or is it stuck in the competency mode?
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