The road to effectiveness is not to talk like a business person, it s to be a business person. Your measure of success is whether your sponsor feels you ve generated a respectable return on investment as measured by his or her beliefs. Training formal learning of all kinds channels some important learning but doesn t carry the heaviest load. The workhorse of the knowledge economy has been, and continues to be, informal learning. Informal learning is neither determined nor designed by the organization.
Training focuses almost entirely on formal learning.
If you re not addressing this you re leaving a tremendous amount of learning to chance. Not any longer. The inflection point of learning, creativity, and productivity. When learning and working are a synchronous activity. Focus on learning how to learn.