Training Design

A question

Take a few seconds to ask yourself: “What’s the aim of work?”

I think that the answer is: “an organisation needs to make money for shareholders and employees want to earn their salary and enjoy their work”

Fortunately, the two areas are linked: an organisation will make more money if employees have the skills and knowledge to perform better than their competitors… and in the real world the key success factors are usually what we call ‘soft skills’.  We can’t understate the importance either of working hard, which requires motivation (and enjoying the work!)

And it’s surprisingly easy to understand how to motivate people – in fact, it’s exactly the same way you make sure they’re enjoying their work. We all like to be challenged (i.e. not bored) and knowledgeable (i.e. not too challenged, and able to do our jobs)

An answer

Training is the solution to this. Take a look at the two-by-two box below

While the way to make a motivated employee out of a bored one is by challenging them more – and training has a role in this – only a good development programme, consisting of training (and often coaching) can make motivated employees out of stressed and overworked ones.

Even in those cases where employees are emotionally drained, and the organisation is in danger of losing talent and becoming a very unattractive place to work, training is still a large part of the wider change programme that needs to occur.

What Setsights does

Setsights designs training for large organisations on management development programmes, covering graduate development, high potential and specific skill improvement. At that point, a train-the-trainer session is used to train the internal Learning & Development (L&D) team. Alternatively, I have a pool of associates to draw upon and I can offer a full training delivery service.

I also design training for other companies that don’t have the skills or knowledge to do it themselves. This is typically for smaller companies who don’t have full L&D designers (but who still want to deliver training themselves), in which case the design is followed by a train-the-trainer session and annual – or more frequent – refreshes.

Setsights training programmes always follow the five principles – it will be based on Psychology and related science, and will always be fun, enjoyable and interesting!