Training on The Rise for 2007

Nearly half of U.S. employers plans to spend more time and money on supervisory and executive-level development next year, according to a survey of more than 2,046 senior HR executives by Novations Group, a global consulting organization based in Boston.

Their findings?

• Leadership/executive development and supervisory/management skills ranked first and second among 11 categories of training.

Other categories of training included:

• Sales/customer service
• Technical training
• Interpersonal/teamwork
• Communications
• Diversity/inclusion
• IT skills/systems
• Project management
• Business practices
• Basic skills

BOTTOMLINE: Where among all of these categories of training is the most fundamental core competency of business - strategy execution? Perhaps that is why 90% of strategies are not well executed??