Business leaders, mangers of people and processes, and HR Business Partners have heard all the excuses millions of times about how employees in need of critical skills like Business Acumen can’t make it to the stand-up training session:
- “I’m too busy”
- “It’s going to be boring”
- “How can they teach business acumen in a couple of days when it takes years in a university program?
- “Finance is too complicated”
- “What do I need to know that stuff for, I’m just a {fill in the blank}, I don’t make business decisions”
- “I can’t be away from home”
Whether you care to admit it or not, the hard truth is that training and development is more important than ever. Not only is training employees a great retention tool, but in these highly volatile times, having new skills can help create strategic advantage and drive business results.
Up until the pandemic, self-paced learning was mainly libraries of eLearning that was generally hit or miss. But now, as we come out of the pandemic (hopefully), there are new tools and applications that go far beyond traditional eLearning.
