Training Industry Blog

How often in your organization do you meet a co-worker who isn’t there? I don’t mean physically absent for some malady real or imagined, I’m talking about the there-in-spirit person who comes to work but never really shows up.

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In case you haven’t realized it – and of course you have – we’re in a period of upheaval in the business world. The ugly economic realities of today mean many things are changing, not the least of which is personnel. According to Liberum Research, CEO changes in January 2012 were up by 191% over the previous year, with overall C-level turnover increased by 107%.

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Most heavy multitaskers rate their ability to do many things at once as very high on surveys. When tested, their perception is wrong. This ability rarely proves to exist. Multitasking may speed you through your to-do list, but it also makes you more likely to make mistakes and less likely to retain information.

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“It’s lonely at the top.” This old expression evokes an image of the single, decisive leader at the top of the pyramid. He hoards knowledge and authority while barking orders to subordinates who carry them out without question—like cogs in a machine. This model may have been effective when businesses and products were simpler, and competition was local or national but not global. Today, the top of the hierarchy simply cannot hoard all the know-how for an organization to make a successful product or service. Modern leadership is about direction and vision. It is more about what to do, and less about how to do it.

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Committing to a certification program also means committing to a recertification or maintenance program unless your program is designed to certify candidates only once in their lifetime. Few organizations, however, certify candidates for life without at least requiring some sort of skills maintenance.

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If your organization is like most, you have a wealth of classroom courses that you would like to convert to virtual instruction. While this is clearly possible, it does take some effort. This blog entry and the two that follow will help you along your way.

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In Part I of this blog post I introduced the non-profit organization, Corporate Voices for Working Families (CVWF), and the conversation I had with their Senior Director of Workforce Readiness, Peg Walton. I continue here in the same vein with a focus on advice and solutions that can bring about Learn & Earn-oriented collaborations between community colleges and companies that are what I referred to as win/win/win situations, where employees, employers and community colleges all truly benefit.

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Leadership training seems to touch virtually every business professional. It’s the second largest spend for training organizations (behind IT) and represents more than $2 billion of global annual spend. It’s obviously a large market as it touches an estimated 30 to 40 percent of a company’s workforce. And with more than 70 to 80 percent of a company’s workforce now knowledge-based workers, leadership skills are more in demand for team leaders and project managers.

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OK, hang on tight, because I’m crawling way out on a limb here: I think mobile phones are here to stay. And I don’t think mobile learning is going anywhere soon either.

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