Training - A Challenge to all!!

 Training - A Challenge to all!!

- In the perspective of a Student and an Employee

 Background  

The basic definition of the training is to upgrade, empower, up skill and educate the individual in a particular skill set as required under circumstances. Its never incidental that these training needs cannot be assessed. The need of training is from the basic skill level to the intellectual leaders which enriches the decision making in their en-route. 

As an individual in business, training is often viewed as a commercial engagement. But at the later part, as a student, the training becomes crucial as part of the curriculum and off-curriculum needs. Contrarily, the purpose of training is redefined to an employee as its more about on subjective, subjunctive and observatory.   

The need of training has evolved decades ago as the most amicable business based Terra centers resulting in negligible throughput. Understanding the need of training itself is a crucial task at both layers (Student and Employee).

In my Experience

Categorically, I divide the training as Up-skill, Technical Training and Capacity Building. Most of the training centers  have the lesser ability to offer quality trainings as per the above objectives. 

Up-Skill is a way of training the individual to upgrade their ability in the current skills or the base skill. E.g., If an individual has the ability to understand the policy, the up-skill training involves of Policy writing and Policy Adaptations. Up-Skill is a root driven, outcome-oriented training where the individual is trained to mend the skills to wire lift the existential situations. 

Technical Training is perhaps the most commercialized form of training today. It often operates under labels such as ‘Center of Excellence’, ‘Innovation Hub’, or ‘Technology Center’. For an individual in Carpentry, the core technical skill is, "How to carve the wood", "How to use the tools to carve in wood" etc. The Standard Operating Procedures defined for such training is less / never followed rather, the major set backs is when the incentives driven training come as a consideration question.     

The most interesting of all is Capacity Building(CB) which has much alignment with the Up-Skill methodology. Capacity Building is less technical driven, context-based development frameworks rather a deep dive into situational learning. The CB method generally has way of bringing up the best practices across the entities and training the individual based on them which impairs the actuality and applicability. The employees are mostly give the CB based training at large scale which lack practical approaches and incidental learning. The CB technical is more suitable for informal skills and rare cases of policy scenarios. 

Conclusion 

While understanding the major difference of  perspectives of training to a Student and to an employee, each of them need a recursive trainings across various approaches. When a 7th semester students enters the campus interview, technical training is essential while an employee having 5 years of experience in Application development, needs the Up-Skill training on Cybersecurity practices in coding.  

The academic entities generally focus on curriculum based trainings which does not fit in any of the categories. While the most business centers focus on capacity building for students which seems more irrelevant. Choosing the right method of training under circumstances is much needed in the competitive era of learning shafts. 

The training is a noble route to enrich the society with opportunities and revival of intellectual minds. The categorical analysis presented here is a depiction through the experience gained over time. The framework of training needs to be re-framed at every entity level to obsolete the layered gaps at each wise. While understanding the need of training, its a similar effort to understand what kind of training needs to implanted in the ecosystem. The purpose and the repurpose through standard operating procures needs to be effectuated in the training sector for the better incremental framework. 

 

Regards

Dattasmita HV