Team Building Activity Wasted?
Are you also wasting your money on training? 
I've discovered that most training and team building money is wasted...
I recently completed
a SETA TQM course. It was interesting, quite informative, and
created a huge amount of paperwork for my sponsor company, who was
also busy with ISO 9000 accreditation.
Did they really need this to be successful? How would this grow their staff?
As I sat observing the students questions, comments and attitudes on the workshop, my mind wandered back to the research that indicates that ONLY 10%-12% of what we were learning will go back and be applied in the workplace - Maybe!
I began thinking what would be the most important 10% that I would want to go back and become fully utilized in the workplace.
It got me digging really deeply into what is it that we should be doing as a basis for people development. We don’t need more TQM, “make-a-huge-lot-of-paper”, “anyone can gypo admin systems.
We need coaching, workshops and resources that enable us to directly get to the CORE of the person. We need to build people’s “cando” attitude, self image, beliefs and & resilience.
We need workshops, team building and systems where people can begin to light their fire; where they can begin to take control, take charge, take Response-Ability, and become inspired to create a better, more appealing and more prosperous future.
In South Africa, we have extremely high levels of Learned Helplessness or low resiliency but we do very little to address this fact..
Most people have just given up, and trying to motivate them to do a better job is like trying to push a wet piece of string up stairs!
I believe that all this training that SETA’s are sponsoring and arranging is almost totally wasted!
We are wasting billions of rands each and every day, because the people we are trying to train need different input as a foundation before this training can be totally worthwhile.
The logical level of development should start deep inside the person. It starts with beliefs about self; self esteem, self worth, confidence, identity, resilience, attitude, emo-energetic leaks etc… All of these areas directly impact on the person’s ability to concentrate, learn, consolidate, think and apply the information or skill.
What does it help to try to teach a person with low self-esteem and an attitude from hell, about customer service? What use is it to teach a person, or company, TQM stuff, when their real important areas are safety, service and staff engagement?
These are critical attitudinal and self development aspects that get totally left of training out every time. I would rather have a team of medium knowledge people, who are passionate, proactive, inspired and “on-fire” with a goal and a cando attitude, than a team of professors with PHD’s, who are demotivated, have bad attitudes, and are going nowhere with learned helplessness. We don’t need more information or systems.
The reason why more than 80% of CRM systems fail is because of the human element.
The human element is the crux of our future success. And no one is addressing this area correctly. We need to begin to address our human element before we try to get them TQM’ing everywhere.
It’s about building significance and attitude and an alignment if beliefs, values and combined Destiny.
It’s about building up from the inside out. It's about discovering our INNERGY and Innerverse - our very own YOU-niverse.
We need to assist and support people and teams to break their “belief-bonds” of learned helplessness. We need to assist people/teams with building high CORE Adversity Intelligence, so they can be resilient, active and fully Response-Able.
These are the people who will take the training and apply much more than 12% back in the workplace.
These are the people who will set the pace and lead. These are the people who make up your teams
Most people know what to do, but they don’t do what they know. Why?...Because they don’t feel like it! Your MOODs predispose you to certain levle of action.
We have the opportunity and the resources through the SETA’s to rectify this problem… if only they could catch the vision! If thay cannot - then maybe you can.. Do you see it now?
Remember - Learning has no worth in a frightened or angry mind, because emotions control the doorway to retention, application and success in individuals and teams.
Namaste'
- Tony Dovale - SA's #1 Energy Coach & Team Building Alchemist