I’m a big fan of project management training because it’s a reasonably important subject and it’s relatively easy to learn how to do it.
I’m also a big fan of time management training because its such a vitally important subject – your life is only time and everything depends on your time management – but unfortunately it’s quite hard to improve, because it’s partly personality-based and it involves changing your deeply-engrained habits.
So:
(How important) x (How easy to change) = value of training.
I also think Negotiation training does pretty well – it has a big effect on the bottom line (both selling and buying), probably even more than project management, which makes up for the fact that it’s harder to implement. Simple methods work, but they do take courage, unlike Project Management: you don’t need to scarily confront anything worse than excel to make a Gantt chart!
So, this:
The left hand scale is mostly about whether people can easily change, but also includes other factors for training being difficult:
* People hard to convince that they need to improve
** Requires maths
*** Complex
**** Requires courage
