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New Year’s Resolutions

As we start a New Year, it is customary to make New Year’s resolutions to improve our lives. Oh… I know we don’t always keep them, but it does permit some introspection.

Well, today I’d like to suggest that we include not only personal resolutions, but training ones as well. Why not? We’re professionals and I don’t know about you, but I can certainly use some improvement in 2007.

I thought the idea was interesting enough to call some of my colleagues and clients, and ask if they were going to make any training New Year’s resolutions and if so, what would they be. Some of the responses were interesting so I thought I’d pass them along to you as a thought stimulator for your own resolutions.

All of these are from financial institution training executives:

More blending; I think we went too far in trying to make everything online, and some things we didn’t even consider doing outside of the classroom. That will be my biggy for the year.
Try to kill all the straight text programs within the University. They aren’t effective anyway; they’re boring and we might as well send CSRs a book.
I really want to spend more time grooming some of our Trainers for development and even management responsibilities. I really need to make time for that.
I have a problem (area) and I’m determined to fix it.
We need to promote ourselves better, especially in the regions.

Give you any ideas? Create your own New Year’s resolution. Let’s make 2007 the best training year ever for your organization, your learner, and yourself!