Off-the-Shelf

I received a package in the mail today from a training resources company, advertising their "off-the-shelf" training packages. For $1500 +tax, you can buy a 100-page binder and 3 CDs full of someone else's ideas of what your organization needs to improve.

From an organization's perspective, it's quick, it's clean, it's easy and I can't help but believing the likelihood of it having a meaningful impact on organizational outcomes is very, very low.

More to come...