Business is hard.

Shareholder expectations border on the impossible.

The next generation of employees has changed the paradigm of work.

These are just three of an infinite number of challenges faced by today’s business leaders. But if there is one thing we all know to be a universal truth is that by building skills and developing talent you can solve every Challenge that comes your way.

So why aren’t businesses looking to spend more time on effective training that will lead to the skills that will solve the challenges they face? The answer, unfortunately, resides in some cauldron of ingredients that include smaller budgets, less time available, and a reluctance to go to more crappy, non-effective training that they have purchased and are remorseful for.