Train, but Train Right

Hi Everyone,

Yes, well-trained people are happy and proud of the work they do, and the entreprise can benefits of that.

Yes, most of training are irrelevent and failure. First, the trainer doesn't know what and how to do the work because she/he never did in the past. It's possible that she/he observed a worker and based the training program on that. You have to work what you want to explain to unknowledgeable people. You are good trainer when you worked in the industry for decades and you were an excellent worker with high performance.

For example, I work in the paint industry for over 44 years, and dispersed pigments, dissolved resins, and know what to add at what moment in the batch and why. I only hired people that never worked in the industry because I don't want to change habits and ways to act. Virgin minds are able to learn and accept what and how to do things. The many "whys" come later when they experience things. Let say, why to add silicone type defoamer before dilution of the paint? Just think, if you add at the end, it's hard to mix a few pounds of defoamer in a very large amount of liquid. However, when you add into a small amount of liquid, mixed well, and add the dilution to complete the batch. Everything mixes well and just do that again and again. Most batchcards indicate to add at the end the small amount of defoamer! I all the time transferred my personal experiences to people worked around me and I was happy to see satisfied people around. When you have to eliminate adjustments on QC, everyone is satisfied with the product, the way is made, and with the original training. A bureaucrate can teach bureaucracy to anyone but not how to make paint.

Schools never produced valueable trainers but we have schools (general or specific) for that to. Waste of money and human resource, Gil.

Training??? What's that? Here in the US most employers DON'T want to spend money on training. That's so they can have a finger to point when a product fails.