{"id":823,"date":"2016-10-13T09:56:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T15:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=823"},"modified":"2016-10-13T09:56:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T15:56:58","slug":"great-training-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/great-training-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Training Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 2016 HBR article, <em>Why Leadership Training Fails-and What to Do About It<\/em>, calls the $160 Billion spent on training in the U.S. the Great Training Robbery. The authors say:\u00a0&#8220;Learning doesn&#8217;t lead to better organizational performance, because people soon revert to their old ways of doing things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this is true of most Six Sigma training courses. If you don&#8217;t apply what you&#8217;ve learned\u00a0<em>immediately<\/em> to reducing delay, defects and deviation, the learning is lost in 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why my Lean Six Sigma workshops focus on solving real problems using existing data. Once people connect the methods and tools to results, it&#8217;s hard to go backward.<\/p>\n<p>Is your Lean Six Sigma training made to stick?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2016 HBR article, Why Leadership Training Fails-and What to Do About It, calls the $160 Billion spent on training in the U.S. the Great Training Robbery. The authors say:&nbsp;&ldquo;Learning doesn&rsquo;t lead to better organizational performance, because people soon revert to their old ways of doing things.&rdquo; Unfortunately, this is true of most Six Sigma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,3,4,6,7],"tags":[118,213],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-lean","category-manufacturing","category-service","category-six-sigma","tag-lean-six-sigma","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5544,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/5544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}