365QOD- Day877

"We should never do one on one training"-Mike

The other day we had 40 team members in a meeting.  During the meeting we discussed many topics and training came up.  My ears perked up.

The topic is of interest to me.  I love one on one training but I also realize that it creates an interesting problem.  I explained it to them.

Suppose I want to train someone to the best of my ability.  The trainee will only know at most 80% of what I know about the topic. 

Suppose the same employee decides to train a new team member.  That person gets 80% of what my trainee learned.  By second generation of one on one training that person only knows 64% ( .8 *.8=.64)of what I know.

Unless my trainee goes out of their way to get from 80 to 100% then they will pass on the gap to their trainee.  So we have to be aware enough to realize after training we must do some self training.  In my opinion, a good rule is that you should spend equal amount to what it takes to do the original training to self train yourself.

When the group gets the training together then the combined effect is only 80 of what the trainer is capable of and the self training takes less time.

Today's question is:
"What training gaps have you not filled?"