Learn Your Way to Success: How to Customize Your Professional Learning Plan to Accelerate Your Career

CHAPTER 2TAKING TRAINING: HOW TO GET THE MAXIMUM BENEFIT FROM TRAINING

While the majority of this book focuses on the many informal learning opportunities you have as part of your daily work, there will be times when your manager requires you to attend a training program or take an e-learning course, and other times when you see a classroom-based or e-learning training program that you would like to attend. In this chapter, we’ll talk about how to get maximum benefit from formal training programs, whether they take place in a classroom or via e-learning.

When Your Manager Sends You to a Training Program

You get an e-mail from your manager telling you about a training program that the company is offering and asking you to register and attend. ...