Threats to successful training

Throughout this short course, we have been considering whether training is just a waste of time and money.

We have discussed many factors which together determine whether training is a worthwhile investment for trainees and their organisations.

In summary, these are the factors that could threaten the effectiveness of training:

• Inaccurate/incomplete training needs analysis
• Unclear organisational expectations
• Stages may be missed in initial set-up
• Trainers focus too much on theory
• Too much emphasis upon ‘having fun’ and enjoying the course
• Seen as a break from work or irrelevant to work
• May be restricted to certain levels of staff
• Insufficient post-training practice
• Lack of follow-up post-training
• Lack of motivation
• Lack of active participation
• Trainees must be debriefed
• Trainers and trainees to kept up to date with new developments
• Time to allow practice of newly-developed skills.