Investing in the Long Game with Reuven Lerner
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Training, done properly, is a specialized type of learning that companies can use as an investment in their personnel or as a box that gets ticked off each year as mandatory practice. What are some of the best practices for training? How can employees prepare to learn? Show Notes I think that good training and good learning go hand in hand Nowadays there's a whole host of different options for every technology. I think it's also healthy for an organization to say, "We're investing in you. We want you to learn these things even if there's no immediate payoff, even if it's not directly for like helping the company right now, we think that at some point in the next year you're going to be exposed to this. You'll need this, you'll want this." having these fundamentals really helps you sort of fly through the system and then use it for the purpose you want, which is getting your work done and not spending time on the nonsense. every company has to sort of decide on these trade-offs because during those days people won't be available as much as you want and you just have to sort of plan for that Links: Learn More About Reuven:Website: lerner.co.il Online Store: store.lerner.co.il YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/reuvenlerner  O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference – Berlin, Germany.  November 4-7, 2019. Use discount code MB20 to save 20% on Bronze, Silver, and Gold packages.
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