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Thinking and Acting Differently – Management Training

Consider this scenario – Your management team or some of your managers have just finished a very informative and well designed management development programme or management training course. You meet with them the next day to evaluate how the programme went and they all seem highly motivated and ready to change the world or at least their own department. You think, great now I will see a marked improvement in their performance and leadership skills and the company will reach its targets! But unfortunately two weeks later those same managers are back to their old performance levels and seem to have lost their motivation and may even be less motivated than when they went on the development programme. What happened? Why aren’t they thinking and acting differently?

This scenario is played out in thousands of companies across the UK every year. Training is offered and completed but very little or no real difference in the way your people think and act is achieved. Was the programme a waste of time? Was the training programme not delivered well? Did your managers just not acquire the skills and knowledge that you thought they did? All of these could be part of the problem but did you consider that you and your organisation need to reinforce the learning that took place at the training programme.

It is a commonly known fact in the Advertising and Marketing fields that people won’t understand, relate or act on your brand until they have seen it or experienced it 5-8 times. So why do we believe that sending our people out on a training course will make them act or think differently when they return. The mechanics of the brain dictate that repetition is a major element in our learning process. So if we want our people to truly change the way they think and act then we need to have a plan in place after training and development programmes that reinforces the key topics or more appropriately, the reinforcing should be a part of a larger learning and development strategy.

For more information on getting your employees to think and act differently please contact Developing People Ltd. on 02380 695929 or at enquiries@developingpeople.co.uk.