The training journal has a very interesting story.

In these days when Gordon Brown & Alistair Darling are spending all their time getting us to spend more (or in the case of the banks – start spending), it seems that Train to gain can’t spend what it already has.

Train to gain is a government initiative that has been heavily promoted on TV as the one stop training solution.

We think that it is the same old, same old – with armies of bureaucrats producing endless spreadsheets and charts to justify their existence.

Where as John Seddon would put it, showing that you have hit the target becomes more of an objectives than the reasoning behind the target and the benefits you get from it.

At an event I went too recently, (sponsored by Train to Gain), the “goodie bag” included a useful highlighter pen.

Right, and this helps me train staff how…

(and no-one post a comment saying that it helps with Train to gain “branding” – Branding comes from providing a service and building a reputation – not spending money on stuff from a catalogue..)

The answer with any work related problem is rarely to just blindly throw money at it that just creates work for accountants & pen pushers.

It’s far beyond my humble status to suggest solutions for government problems but one thing is for sure “forcing” training on people via TV commercials & “useful” pens & handouts is like telling them they must have fun.

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