“How many of you believe in training?
You train animals but you educate people”
I found this thought in one book by Alan Weiss, a consulting guru. I noted it because that’s quite deep actually, and it relates perfectly to the Fourth Revolution transformation.
Training was appropriate for the Industrial Age. People got trained to do their job more efficiently.
You trained people to do their individual task more quickly, with better quality… And you used carrot and stick incentives to help.
Alas, training is not any more appropriate for the Collaborative Age. Education is much more. Because value is not anymore in people following a written, predictable process to produce something. Now, you need to give people the background, the thinking tools, the inner game to produce effective things, that are worthwhile and of high value.
Education (as in general, higher cultural education) was reserved to a small portion of society. It needs now to be made available to everybody.
And ‘training course’ needs to change in ‘educational event’. And the content focused on getting people to developing their thinking and creative abilities.
When will you change your people’s development strategies to fit into the Fourth Revolution new needs?
