Private Training Courses: A Game Changer for Companies?
Navigating the realm of Agile and DevOps can be daunting.
When it comes to training, a pressing question often emerges: Can companies reap more from a private training course? 🚀
Many organisations are maximising the impact of private training, so let’s take an inside look at this game changer.
Opening Up in Private Courses: An Unexpected Freedom
When training becomes a private affair, it always creates a safe space that encourages remarkable open dialogue. While I strive to create this atmosphere in public classes, the inherent comfort within the confines of a familiar organisation makes discussions more in-depth and candid.
You’re suddenly in an environment where airing the so-called “dirty laundry” is tolerated and embraced. 🗣️ In fact, speaking out is almost an expectation.
Eureka Moments in Private Classes
During these focussed sessions, I’ve found myself discussing professional scrum, unit testing, continuous delivery to production, and all things Agile and DevOps.
And occasionally, I’m met with, “We can’t do that here because of XYZ”.
Yet, fascinatingly, someone else in the room often counters with something encouraging like, “Actually, we do that in our team”.
Such moments are golden! 🌟
They underscore the potential within an organisation, spotlighting discrepancies in beliefs and actual capabilities.
The Real Value in Private Courses
This is where the magic happens.🎯
1. Candid Conversations: Unparalleled candour leads to rich and constructive discussions.
2. Realisation of Possibilities: By interacting with peers, teams often discover latent capabilities within their organisation.
3. Provoking Thought: The presence of an external facilitator can help provoke essential conversations, pushing teams to reconsider long-held beliefs and methods.
To put it briefly, while public courses have merit, private training has that added layer of intimacy and relevance, often resulting in deeper insights and transformations.
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A good question. So how can companies derive a greater benefit from training if they invest in a private course rather than just sending people piecemeal to public classes? I think it’s an interesting question, and I think it’s because ultimately, because you’re able in the context of that class to air your dirty laundry a little bit more than if you go to a public class.
I always try and create a safe space in public classes that people feel that they’re able to talk about things that are happening in their company, and everybody else in the room’s going to, you know, kind of pretend they didn’t hear it afterwards, type of thing, so that we can talk about things. But you don’t feel as comfortable as perhaps you can be within the boundaries of a single organisation.
Quite often, and I’ve had this with certain private classes where I’m talking about professional Scrum, and I’m talking about continuous delivery to production, and I’m talking about unit testing, and I’m talking about just all of those things around DevOps and Agile. There are people in the room that will say we can’t do that here because of XYZ. What’s very interesting is you’ll have somebody in the room that says, well, actually, on our team, we are able to do that.
And I say, okay, well, why can this team do that in your organisation, but these teams believe they can’t? That can be an important discussion to have because if somebody can do it, you can pretty much all do it, right?
The dirty laundry, that realisation of the possible through talking to other people in your organisation, if everybody in the group is on the same team, it’s also a little bit different. I’ve done Agile leadership classes with the whole leadership team for an organisation, and that brings up interesting conversations. Quite often, they’re conversations that the participants believe they should have already had.
Why do I need to come to this training to have these conversations? But it’s that they weren’t provoked, right? It’s comfortable to not have those conversations, to do the same thing that we’ve always done, you know, running on the treadmill, getting things done. But sometimes you need somebody to provoke you into thinking differently, provoke you into thinking about how you do things.
I think that’s the same is true for consulting and training, but especially for private training. There’s a lot of provoking and asking difficult questions, and maybe the questions they don’t want to answer, right? Because in not one thing to answer it, they realise something about themselves as well.
So that, for me, is the added value to private classes, is that there’s a lot more candour than maybe there might be in a public class.
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