The more numbers you have and less emotion, the more likely you are to succeed

The more numbers you have and less emotion, the more likely you are to succeed

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Training or Adaptation

Lola RodriguezLola Rodriguez

I was recently dealing with this situation with a new employee.

He said to me:

“You told me about your adaptation system, how strong and detailed it is. But I see that you do not teach anything, nothing is clear, and your materials do not help, I have read everything, my head is buzzing, and the appointed mentor does not want to sit with me and show me how and what to do.

I was thinking “geez, yeah, how come, where’s the mistake in the adaptation?”

And then I realized that it’s important to separate adaptation and learning, and the error is actually there and it’s elsewhere.

Adaptation – we take a person who is able to do our tasks, has all the necessary knowledge and competencies to do that, and we tell him how to do those tasks in our company. Where to take the tasks from, in what sequence to do, who to go to with what question, where to get what templates and examples, etc.

Training – we take a person who can’t do our tasks now, but has potential. And we teach.

Training is long, complicated and does not always bring results. Adaptation does not always bring results, but it is much easier in the organization and you can quickly see if the adaptation was successful.

We decided for ourselves a long time ago not to teach anyone, but to adapt. Therefore we develop at the same time

The adaptation system for all positions from assistant to manager to PSO.

The hiring system, which allows us to hire only people who can already fulfill our tasks.

Thus, in the situation above we really had a mistake, but an error in the hiring system, we took a person who is not able to do what we have to do on this position. Well, we didn’t plan to teach. We do not teach accountants, programmers, analysts. There are special courses and educational institutions for that.

We helped my colleague find the right training course. I think we had a positive exchange of views, but all the same, both sides spent time, not good. Error must be corrected.

And you decide for yourself – do you have training or adaptation at the entrance to the company? If the answer is “nothing”, please contact us, we can help with materials and processes of adaptation. But not with training 🙂