Training programs can fall victim to the same trap as many other company initiatives: Someone identifies a gap or a need; an initiative is put into place to address that shortcoming; and, without anyone taking ownership of that initiative, it slowly loses momentum and becomes another obligatory exercise the organization goes through out of habit.
The Role of the Champion
This is the classic gap between the generation of a great plan and the long-term, committed execution of that plan. It’s like a sales executive realizing that “we need to teach our sales staff how to sell to municipal governments.”
