What is the meaning of training courses?

Whilst training courses could be defined as:

"a process for developing individual skills and effectiveness. Rarely is it a process of organisation or group development. Individual effectiveness, in terms of skills, knowledge and attitude, is one of the essential building blocks towards achievement of the wider goal of improved organisational efficiency and effectiveness. The development of the individual and the organisation are therefore inextricably linked."

Because the development of the individual and the organisation is linked the individual must be developed in accordance with the organisations development strategy and not the individuals wish list.

With this view in mind the training strategy clearly needs to consider, for example, issues like:

	succession planning, based upon
	competence and capability assessment, for gap analysis

Followed by consideration of :

the difference between knowledge acquisition and its subsequent application, the measurement of skill acquired, how will it be generated and evaluated, and what should the company's training strategy, policy, objectives and methods be?