Training to Cheat
This past month there was an article featured in the Star Tribune on the “dark side” of training and development.
In Minneapolis, an instructor who led CEU training courses for insurance agents was found to be providing 15 hours of accredited training (training that is necessary for agents to keep their license)… in a matter of minutes.
“It wasn’t bending the rules, it was blowing them away,” Huge told commerce investigators, according to their report. “How can I do it? Or why did I do it? ‘Cause I didn’t know you were in the room.”
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What are your thoughts? Is this story just an anomaly to training culture, or is this one of many? Why would a trainer choose to go and bend or “blow” the rules away? How does this impact the perceptions of employees on the role of training?
I’d love to hear your ideas, and see what questions this article brings up for you.
