• White Papers

    White Papers on Corporate Training, Leadership and Learning Management Systems

  •  

Subscribe to this blog

Subscribe to full feed RSS
What is RSS?!

Subscribe Via Email

We respect your privacy.
Posts Tagged ‘learning vs. development’

Relevance of Learning versus Relevance of Training and Development

By Bryant Nielson, Managing Director On October 21, 2009 No Comments

trainingIndexIn today’s environment, training organizations are struggling to prove their worth. They are also struggling to keep programs going on smaller budgets with smaller staffs. One way to get ahead of this fray is to know the difference between learning and training and development – and to understand the relevance of each in terms of your organization’s environment and the overall environment.

First, training managers should understand the difference between learning and “training and development”. Learning, in general, is the absorption of base knowledge about a particular subject, such as an industry. This knowledge will give an individual an understanding of the world around them and how the organization (and the individual) fit together. Training and development, on the other hand, is the act of teaching someone how to do something, such as a job, or teaching them the skills and attitudes that will have a direct impact on job performance, such as operations, human resources policies, or management and leadership. Let’s look at some examples of each before we discuss their relevance. (more…)



Relevance of Learning versus Relevance of Training and Development

By Bryant Nielson, Managing Director On May 5, 2009 No Comments

Training RelevenceIn today’s environment, training organizations are struggling to prove their worth. They are also struggling to keep programs going on smaller budgets with smaller staffs. One way to get ahead of this fray is to know the difference between learning and training and development – and to understand the relevance of each in terms of your organization’s environment and the overall environment.

First, training managers should understand the difference between learning and “training and development”. Learning, in general, is the absorption of base knowledge about a particular subject, such as an industry. This knowledge will give an individual an understanding of the world around them and how the organization (and the individual) fit together. Training and development, on the other hand, is the act of teaching someone how to do something, such as a job, or teaching them the skills and attitudes that will have a direct impact on job performance, such as operations, human resources policies, or management and leadership. Let’s look at some examples of each before we discuss their relevance.
(more…)



  • Recent Posts

  • Archives

  • Dynamic Topic Tags

  • Categories

  • Write for YourTrainingEdge ®

    Every people have different ideas and different techniques on corporate training. Do you feel that you could contribute to this site? Submit your articles and get the opportunity to be featured for free. For more details proceed to this Guest Author Page.

  • Tags

    adaptive leadership Associate development Baby Boomers training Coaching corporate training corporate university Corporate university assessment Corporate university marketing Corporate university sponsorship Corporate university staffing Corporate university structure digitals eLearning Employee development engaging training Generation Y training Global leadership development goal setting High performance leadership High performance organization High potential leadership LCMS Leadership leadership development Leadership incentive Leadership measurement leadership risks Leading Leading high performance teams learning learning and development Learning Management System learning management systems learning vs. development LMS LMS implementation Mentoring responsibility sales analysis sales cycle management training training amidst chaos training and development training budgets Training needs assessment
  •