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Why Most Courses Don’t Work.

It's a sad fact that most courses are a waste of time.  One study put this failure rate at 90%!  This is unacceptable and unnecessary.   Transfer, as the academics call it, takes far more than a good course.  This is one reason why we are spending more time in the workplace with our clients to help them make changes where it matters. 

 

In the classroom, we are confident you will be delighted with our level of delivery. However, that isn't what makes us different.  We make the difference because we have understood and addressed why most change efforts don't work.  

 

Why do Courses So Often Fail to Deliver?

•    Failing to build individual responsibility - the key to any successful change.  
•    Poorly defined or nonexistent performance outcomes.
•    Offering no personal benefits to the employee.
•    Little or no senior management support – most senior managers see learning as nice to have.
•    The course bears little resemblance to the real world.
•    They widen the Knowing-Doing gap – the amount of knowledge someone has versus how they behave.
•    Content is based on the trainer's opinion instead of scientifically validated practices and so may not actually work in different situations for other people.  
•    They ignore the implementation issues to be faced when everyone returns to work (colleague resistance).


Updated: 02 Aug, 2008