What Your L&D Team Does Not Tell You? What Is Easy (To Learn) & What Is Hard?
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L&D stands for Learning & Development, the team in companies responsible for conducting training and courses.
In my 2-decade career at a bank, I recall attending a lot of training.
Classroom, Offsite, Single-day, Multi-day, at Hotels, Resorts, etc.
In most cases, I recall the location, the colleagues, the travel, and even the people who addressed us.
But if you ask me — what exactly I learned in those, what the purpose was, and what I gained — I wouldn’t be sure.
This sentiment is echoed by Laszlo Bock, Google’s former Head of People Operations.
In his book Work Rules!, Bock writes,
“The average employee (in the USA) received thirty-one hours of training over the year, which works out to more than thirty minutes per week. Most of that money and time is wasted. ..
If I look at my years in large and small professional environments, I’d be hard pressed to point to anything I do differently today as a result of training.”
