Most likely it taught you how to work better. It gave you practical procedures to follow and install back at the office. But when you got back to the office, everything you learned went out the window. Effective training doesn't end with training. It doesn't even begin with training.
Effective training is sandwiched between individual preparation and conscientious implementation.
Trainers should begin by asking pertinent questions, weeks before a workshop. Then they need to design the workshop to address the problems the questions uncover. But most important, after the training, the trainer needs to make sure the proposed solutions happen. In other words, the trainer's job remains incomplete if the training doesn't translate into action. For example, it's conceivable that someone invented a light bulb before Edison .