Human Beings Need To Learn, Not To Train

HR Departments love their training role; training companies love to offer Train the Trainer programmes and employees love to for training.
Corporate awards look to measure the number of man hours and rupees spent on training.  Unfortunately, all of this is a thorough waste of time.  Why?  Because, in my opinion, you can train circus animals but human beings need to learn.  Semantics?  Perhaps.  But the fundamental difference is that in training, we teach a skill through repetition and reinforcement like circus animals? The receiver of the training only needs to learn ho to perform the task. However, when we get people to learn, they also get to understand the why, what and when along with the how.
Why are you performing this task?  How does it fit into your job and its deliverable?  When and how will you need to display this knowledge?  What is the impact of doing this correctly or incorrectly?  This is what you can get a human being to understand through the process of learning.
Another thing, “learning” implies some responsibility n the part of the individual receiving the lesson.  Take that away and it becomes the organization responsibility to provide the training as measurable activity as opposed to s systematic approach to leering that looks for productivity.  So the next time someone talks to your about training, bring out your pet seal, get him to um through a hoop, and reward him with a fish.