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August 25, 2002 at 08:00 PM
Article On Sabotaging Training Was Right On The Mark
To The Editor:
Dennis Groners article in the August 5 issue of National Underwriter, “Take A Look At Your Training. Is It Sabotaging Learning?” is good advice on how to properly adapt your training to your audience and your subject in order to get results.
Have you ever gone to see a movie too early only to be subjected to endless trailers of upcoming movies and advertisements, so many that when the movie finally starts, you think you went into the wrong multiplex because you cant even remember what movie you came to see?
Thats the same feeling sales people get when they go to a training session that has a 30-minute long introduction: “In this difficult time of economic slowdown…and blah, blah…thats why we have to adapt and to do this we…blah, blah…therefore, I present to you the following Powerpoint presentation, if we look to the empty screen behind me…wait theres a problem with the image.”
Sound familiar? Its a pity that today some professionals feel naked without the support of high-tech gadgets to teach a class, or give a presentation.
Weve seen too many of those “robots” that come in, hook up enough cables to go bungee jumping off the Hoover Dam and then start their automated presentations.
Ive been subjected to sitting at such displays of unfocused, general, cookie cutter presentations by extremely boring, unprepared, and impersonal speakers who talk for two hours in a “formatted way” as if they memorized every word from some pitch written on some telemarketers “prompt” card.
