Blog Post: Is your employee training strategy focusing on the wrong employees?

The weather channel had a severe weather alert for Phoenix this past weekend that read something like this:  A cold front will bring cool breezes with rain possible in the higher elevations.   For us desert dwellers that means the end of triple digit temperatures and the beginning of 8 or so months of pure heaven.  If you live in the metro area and you didn’t spend at least 60% of your weekend outdoors, then to quote Steven Colbert “A Wag of the finger at you!”

I kicked off my Sunday with a much needed hike in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve.  I was looking to trick myself into a good cardio workout by disguising it as a commune with nature.  What I ended up with instead was a lesson in on-the-job training and a reminder for all of us in charge of work place learning:  Very often the most effective learning takes place in the field. 

Are you leveraging on the job training (OJT) as much as you could?  I suggest that we spend more time training managers and leaders how to be better day-to-day teachers.  Read about my "aha!" moment and the full post here in my blog at the breakroom.