Is your training getting tired? Are you getting tired of your training? Mix it up! Change it up! Try something new. It doesn’t have to be a big new. Sometimes small incremental changes are enough. And sometimes we do the same thing because we’ve always done it that way and we get in a rut.
Do you know the story of the ham? Sometimes it’s told about a brisket. This is one of those stories that no one is really sure where it came from but it holds true in so many situations. The story goes like this:
Once when my mother was making a ham for dinner, she got her pan out, got the ham out, cut the ends of the ham off and put it in the pan. I was watching closely as I often did (this is how I learned to cook after all). So I asked, thinking there was some magic kitchen secret in this procedure, “Mama, why did you cut the ends of the ham off?” She paused in her preparation and thought for a minute and said “Well, that’s the way my mother did it. Maybe we better call Grandma and ask her why.” So we called Grandma asked her why she cut the ends off the ham before she cooked it. And her answer was very simple…she said “the only way the ham would fit in my roasting pan was to cut the ends off of it!”
How much of your training is being conducted because it’s the only way it used to fit in the pan? Get a bigger pan.
Here are three ways to change it up:
1) Ask better questions – This holds true for any project your working on. Don’t take the first answer as the only answer. Dig deeper. Find a better question or ask it differently.
2) Make a small change – Think of something different to do with the project or one part of the project. Give your stakeholders and audience something they didn’t expect. Instead of sending out an email communication, send it as an audio link or even better send it as video message.
3) Change the perspective – Look at the project from a different perspective. If you typically look at it from the employee perspective, then look at it from a management perspective. If you look at it from an internal perspective, try a stakeholder’s perspective. Just look at it differently and see what happens.
Here are three ways to change it up. What do you do?
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