Emersus Consulting’s experience has been that most training efforts have little impact on organizational performance. This occurs because most organizations still adopt the traditional training model. This model assumes that if a training event has clear objectives, is well designed and uses the best delivery mechanism, the outcome will be individual improvement thus organizational improvement.

While these considerations are important for the specific programs that comprise the entire learning initiative, if the initiative itself does not originate from an corporate wide strategy, organizational outcomes will not be achieved.

Employee development requirements must emerge from explicitly defined organizational strategies.  Learning initiatives are part of, and support the system they exist in. They must be integrated into all business systems in order to achieve organizational performance improvement.