Why training still wins

"I think people in power have a vested interest to oppose critical thinking."

Carl Sagen

The current system in most organisations forms the cultural norm that "learning" (only) equates to "getting training". Most senior leaders are passive on this as they continue to benefit.

 Here's my list of reasons that ensure training is still favoured - over proactively creating environments that enable continual learning:

1. Control

2. Easy to separate from the 'real work' (and so deprioritise)

3. Easy to devolve responsibility down (which L&D teams gladly accept)

4. Easy to manage as a project checklist item (safety in the familiar plan / budget / delivery zone)

5. Fits with the 'just get people to execute!' mantra

6. Leaders can maintain their own behaviour as-is ('do as we say not what we do').