Conventional training and development methods are unnecessarily costly. These costs include time to schedule and manage training of employees, administration of curricula, compiling, reporting, filing, paper, and printing.
The most significant cost consequences are caused from training outcomes not converting into performance improvement in operations and safer working practices.
Time to train using conventional methods takes too long, and in most instances, it is slow to achieve effective application at the workplace. This inhibits possibilities of reducing costs and to achieve sustainable performance improvements.
The lack of effectiveness in conventional training in most South African industries, is reflected in the notable declines in their productivity over past decades, when compared to their global competitors.
Whilst there are other factors like political interference that contributed to the decline, a large apportionment of the causes of productivity decline is attributed to conventional training methods failing to deliver the level of skills and expertise, which industries require to perform competitively against their global competitors.
