The Challenge of Training?
However, that does not mean the culture is not out there. So while the newer generations may not warrant different instructional strategies, it does not mean they will tolerate the same old lectures, activities that have no real meaning to their work, two hour long classes that could have been learned at their desks in 30 minutes and other wasteful means that other generations have tolerated.
Talent management works best when you help to assimilate others’ cultures into the organization when it makes sense to do so, rather than fight to keep your ways the sole means of conducting business. The real idea is to increase productivity. For the most part we have finally cut the non-complex transactional positions that benefit from productivity-stimulating technology. All that’s left are complicated and nuanced jobs requiring experience, expertise, judgment, interaction, and collaboration — or tacit knowledge (Frei & Mader, 2008).