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Strategy and the Fat Smoker
Strategy and the Fat Smoker
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Why Most Training is Useless

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Too often, companies look to training as a stand-alone solution for behavioral changes in their employees. However, training is a wonderful last step in a committed process towards a common goal, but an almost useless first step.

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NOTES FOR THE EPISODE:

00:35 – Introduction

00:42 – Training is no quick-fix

02:08 – Choosing managers and implementing training

04:31 – The keynote speech

10:04 – The hard business of making change

14:46 – The correct approach to training

19:42 – Summary