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Why most corporate training fails to change behaviour

· 6 min read

Attendance is not adoption. A practical view of what has to happen before, during and after a programme for training to show up in daily work.

Most organisations measure training by attendance and satisfaction. Both are easy to collect and neither predicts whether anything changes on Monday morning.

Behaviour change starts before the session. When line managers know what their teams are learning and what they will be expected to do differently, the programme lands inside the business rather than beside it.

During delivery, the strongest predictor of transfer is practice on real work. Generic case studies teach concepts; participants' own accounts, projects and customer conversations teach behaviour.

Afterwards, a short review checkpoint with stakeholders matters more than a long evaluation form. Ask what people have applied, where they struggled, and what the organisation needs to remove to make the new behaviour easier.

Training is an intervention in a system. Treat it that way, and the results follow.

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