Strategy and Training: Making Skills a Competitive Advantage
- 2h 58m
- Philippe Korda
- Business Expert Press
- 2012
This book explores corporate training in the context of deploying strategic initiatives within organisations. It goes beyond merely explaining strategy, to investigating how it relates to skills training, and how companies can leverage this to implement their initiatives. Drawing on real-life client examples and the inspirational stories of highly successful individuals, this book highlights approaches that have transformed organisations and re-invented training. It dispels myths that exist around traditional training paradigms and brings to light the effectiveness of new methods and approaches. Social learning, using technologies such as Twitter and video-blogs, is today revolutionising the way training is undertaken. At the same time, the age-old communication technique of storytelling is being reinvented as a way to roll out strategic programs to large multi-cultural groups on a global scale. The author presents key questions that are relevant at project and company level, and provide practical checklists and summaries complementing each chapter of the book. This text highlights how you can develop your team's expertise through systematic coaching when cascading a strategy throughout your organisation, and explains the benefits of reinforcing strengths, identifying weaknesses and correcting failures to build competitive advantage. It also addresses the risk of 'unlearning' post-training, and issues that arise with maintaining performance evaluation and measuring tangible progress. Succinct and pragmatic, the book reveals how strategic projects can be successfully rolled out globally; using cost-effective training that will ensure a return on investment for your organisation.
In this Book
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Strategy and Training—Making Skills a Competitive Advantage
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Introduction
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When Strategy Met Training—As an Era Ends, Another Begins
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The Straight and Narrow Path to Excellence—Training Leads to Expertise, If and Only If …
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The Fascinating Mechanics of Progress—Different Challenges Require Different Training Responses
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An Animal Endowed with Reason and Emotions—The Difference Between Computers and Human Beings
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Web Communities and Training—The Era When Everyone Helped Everyone Else
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Old Paradigms and New Formats—What If the World Really Isn’t Flat?
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The Quest for Return on Investment—Training Doesn’t Have to Be a Cost!
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Conclusion: Gazing into Our Crystal Ball—What Does the Future Hold for Strategic Training?
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Notes
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References
