Topic Teasers Vol. 79: 21st Century Training

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  Career Development   Talent Management   Teams  

My project team needs a substantial amount of training to tackle its latest project challenge. However, my organization just doesn’t have the time and money to fund the traditional classroom approach we have used in the past. Sitting through endless hours of online instructor droning won’t really engage and inspire me and my colleagues. Are there any other options available to us?

A. Ask human resources to reassign you to a different project where the team members are appropriate for the upcoming challenges. It is beyond the scope of your position to manage the project and also be asked to assume responsibility for their qualifications to complete the assigned work.

B. On the weekends, work to create your own training lectures. Ask your colleagues to donate one evening a week to work offsite with you in the interest of building a team better prepared to deliver the project objectives within the estimated metrics.

C. Suggest to your manager that the current team isn’t trained on the skill sets they need for your upcoming project. Propose retaining 50% of them, but replace the other 50% with others who already have mastered the needed expertise. The people you have kept can now be paired with the newcomers to learn the needed information.

D. Consider some of the blended learning options—which could …

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