Training Versus Development
September 27th, 2011 at 12:09 am | Admin | 5 responses
There is difference between training and developing. Understanding the distinctions will help to understand the processes that characterize training and development. Both training and development affect the short and long term success of an organization. Training is defined as the acquisition of knowledge and skill for present task. It is a tool to help individual contribute to the organization.
Two major purposes of training; to help people learn and develop skills and training must result in change in behavior. Training is a short term while development looks beyond today, it takes a more long term. Development differs from training in that it does not occur during a class. Its happen after the class.
People are the key to any organization. Development is necessary so people can meet new challenge. Two different planning tools that can help to differentiate between training and development is performance plan for training and a development plan for development.
The performance plan outlines what is expected in term of performance or result, and exactly how that performance will be measured. Development plan differs with performance plan since it has long term focus and action plan. It helps to plan staffing, training and development.
An employee is in control of the process of he or she uses it annually to create and revise a development plan and if the plan is completed in time. Organizations will need to use both of the processes described in this article.
The common element is learning, in the era of global economies, increasing competition, and a advancing technologies, learning may be the only competitive advantage we have.
As Human Resources practitioner, it is important to clearly identify the real concept and general idea of training and development itself. Training generally refers to teaching operational and technical skills to do the job for which an individual is hired while development can be understood as teaching managers and professionals the skills needed for the present and future jobs.
On the other hand training is a process by which people improve their knowledge, skills and attitudes and use them to enhance their performance on the job whereas development is a progress and improvement that resulted from the training process.
From my perspective training is one of the core aspects in the development plan or process. Without proper training programme there is no way a development programme would succeed. This means that to achieve a successful development progress, a proper training program must be implemented. Simple example is about to build a develop nation in 2020 as visioned by country leaders. Instead of providing world class infrastructure and economic facilities to the country, another core infrastructure that needed to be developed is to strengthen the education and human resources development since world class infrastructure and economic facilities only will be beneficial if the country’s human resources are competent enough to handle the situation.
There is no doubt that training is about development and application of knowledge, skills and attitudes for achieving specific objectives while the development itself is a long term process of assisting and helping the individual to handle present and future responsibilities. Development can be viewed as the end result of the training process.
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said on August 17th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
fuh, berat tajuk hari ni bro…
said on August 17th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
too much english, pening den nak baca
said on October 9th, 2011 at 5:25 pm
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said on November 10th, 2011 at 11:04 am
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said on December 7th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
i prefer for on job training. it can develop your skill and knowledge