We’ve all seen it. Training poorly designed. Poorly built. Obsolete before the investment pays for itself. Training that crashes and burns its first time out; programs that quickly end up in the scrapyard. What was to be mind-fill, is now landfill.
These unfortunate programs are consigned to the Graveyard of Bad Training. If they had headstones, what would they say?
Epitaph 1: A Pointless Life, Poorly Lived
They asked What. They asked How Much. They asked When. But nobody asked Why? Nobody spelled out what the deliverable was – what was the desired change? This training could have delivered the goods, if someone had just determined what the point was!
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Your turn! What epitaphs would you give some of the bad training you’ve seen in the past? Click on Comments above and make up an epitaph in 10 words or less!
They say it’s customer-centric, customer focused training. Yet when you look at it, it’s always poduct/brand and representative/compnay focused. It’s never about what the doctor wants and needs to use a product. It’s about what marketing and sales wants and needs to sell the product and what they think the doctor wants and needs. Duh?
Death by Powerpoint!