Corporate training. It can be one of the most useful periods of time for your
team, or the biggest waste of time. And what's the differentiator? Well, number
one, the differentiator is just the topic. What kind of skills are you training on?
Number two, it's the skill of the facilitator. And number three, it's the
appetite that your team has to learn these skills. Let's talk first about the
skills that are in demand at the fortune 500, that we're seeing trending right now.
And in addition we're gonna talk about what makes a great facilitator or
trainer, and third how to assess what your team is interested in learning more about.
I'm Jenny Rae, the Managing Director at Management Consulted. We're a group
of ex McKinsey, Bain, and BCG consultants that really love working with
organizations as well as professionals, on building training pipelines to help
your organization succeed. To become more clear with better strategy and better
communication. So, here are the three main things that we see a lot of interest in
at the fortune 500 and at top consulting firms right now from a training perspective.
Number one data analytics. I'm talking about really using Excel as
the first tool for data analytics. A lot of people don't know how to even lay out
Excel in a way that makes sense. How to think about the strategy of what they're
gonna use itself for, and then how to approach things in Excel. So just basically,
knowing that you have a problem to solve and understanding what Excel can do to help
you fix it, is one of the key areas and data analytics that we're seeing
interest in. Now are there more advanced data tools? Absolutely! There are
thousands of them, and they're becoming more popular. Things like Tableau, and
SPSS, and we're seeing some digital training tools as well. So there are a
lot of things that are available in there. But ultimately, these in-demand
skills are starting with data analytics. Everyone on a team needs to
know how to do it, what's important about it, and what you need to ask somebody
else to do if you're not gonna do it yourself. Second, we're seeing a very sharp
interest in the Pyramid Principle. The Pyramid Principle is the "so what" or the
"answer" of what you're doing. It's the ability is to advocate for why you're
doing anything at any given time to your peers, to the people that you're managing,
to the people who are focused upward from you. And the struggle inside an
organization is when people are not clear. They don't understand how what
they're doing ties to the bottom line, and they don't understand how to communicate
the importance of what they're doing to drive action and change. When you shorten
the timeline of that communication, when you make it faster, and more clear, and
more direct, you get more action in less time- which is ultimately usually very
good results inside an organization. The third thing that we're seeing a lot of
interest in is executive communication, or soft skills training. The ability to
use body language and dynamics internally and interpersonally, so that
people can project confidence, the ability to persuade, and the ability to
work well with a number of people. So those three main skills, Excel or data
analytics, the Pyramid Principle or answer first methodology, used primarily
in presentations and emails, and then executive communication at large,
interpersonal training, are three of the main things that we're seeing.
What else could mean that your corporate training is a waste of time or
a success? Well, the other two pieces are the interests of your team and the skill
of the facilitator. A skilled facilitator will have a strong program that involves
lots of interactive exercises that the organization can go through to keep
everyone engaged, and applying the skills that they're learning. And they'll also
be enthusiastic and dynamic about the process that they're working through.
An engaged team comes from having the training be their idea or from having
some motivator. This could be a town hall inside your organization, where somebody
senior says this is what I'm looking for from my top performers. Or it could be
something where you ask people what do you want to develop? And then you build a
training around it. Either way, there needs to be messaging inside the
organization, that what people want or what will help them succeed matters. And
that therefore the corporate training is important and necessary. If you're
interested in corporate training we would love to help your organization.
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