LSA Global Insights Newsletter: November 2009

November 25, 2009

The #1 (and most overlooked) Rule of High Impact Training

Location, Location, Location.

It's the #1 rule in real estate, and it's often the most overlooked.
You can change the structure of a house. You can remodel a house. But you cannot move it.
Purchase a home in an undesirable location and you have most likely made a significant mistake. Nothing has a greater impact on your home's value than location. If your home's location is less than desirable, your options are limited. Often, foreclosure is the only viable alternative.

Because the #1 rule of training has also been grossly overlooked by most practitioners, it is no surprise that many aspects of training are in "foreclosure."

  • Training budgets decreased by an average of 11% from last year

  • Training hours decreased by almost 50% from two years ago

  • Overall training spend across companies decreased by 14% from the previous year

  • The size of internal training staffs were cut by 5-8%
As one customer put it, "We need to learn a new language and change the game."

Read more about the #1 Rule of High Impact Training...



About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a leading performance consulting and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned

How to Ensure On-the-Job Adoption and Impact

Is your training program making a difference?

Assuming that your initiative is relevant to the business, the target audience, and their supervisors, the difference between success and failure is often on-the-job adoption and impact.

According to most research, current training programs are woefully inadequate when it comes to providing the processes, tools, and support required to transfer the training, skills and knowledge to the job. They are even more remiss when it comes to needs assessment, training measurement and providing targeted reinforcement for participants.

In order to produce tangible results, you must first be able to successfully answer the following key questions:

  1. Are people using the new knowledge and skills?

  2. How much of a difference are the new skills and knowledge making on the job?

  3. What specifically should each participant and their supervisor focus on to ensure success through improved individual performance?
Being armed with quantitative and qualitative answers to these questions allows you to create the accountability, coaching, and follow-through required to ensure that your initiative is a true success.

Learn how to create adoption and impact for your initiative...




    About LSA Global
    Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a leading performance consulting and training firm that helps high growth technology, services, and life-science companies create a competitive advantage by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with their strategy. Learn more about getting aligned