On Learning and Development: Part 2
Salaam and Greetings, Last week I wrote about the need to understand Training and Development (or now it is affectionately called, Learning and Development – L&D). This week, I will be writing on “What is L&D, and why is there a need for training/learning, and what is the difference?”. In my over 20 years of being in L&D, and I started in Training, I have seen a lot of changes. Some good ones, and some, well, all I can say is that, there is more hype than substance. Past few years, I have seen where training (I will use this term loosely to denote any type of learning, courses, programs, seminars, conferences, either face-to-face, or via web, and/or computer assisted learning etc), have been more sophisticated than before. It has employed various researches and studies, including best practices of successful organizations. I have seen enough (can’t say I have seen it all), to know that, some of the training, which w...