As a Lean Six Sigma professional, are you training to get results? Unfortunately, training is one of those things people do because they have to. Taking a training course will help meet the requirements for a promotion or advancement in responsibility. The thought process sometimes is just to take the course or finish the college work to meet a standard.
Training Is Your Most Valuable Asset
Here is the way you must approach training. Training has to become a deeply engrained and practiced habit. Studies have shown that the most highly successful people spend between $10k-$20k per year, investing in their personal and professional development. It becomes a mindset. The most successful professionals understand that time equals money. Wasting time or spending it in a manner that does not achieve the highest level of results is just like wasting money. For them, training and professional development must be repetitive and of a frequency that deeply embeds the concepts they study. This reputation makes those concepts habits. Habits produce consistent performance. Here are some thoughts to keep in mind when you are approaching a training objective:
- The first exposure to a training class will simply introduce a topic.
- The second exposure will highlight topics you missed in the first session.
- The third exposure starts to embed information into your mind and create relevant associations.
- The fourth exposure enables you align more closely with the instructor and conceptualize the information.
Getting Results from Professional Development
As you begin a training experience with Lean Six Sigma classes, get your mindset in order. Approach things in the same way as some of the most successful people from around the globe. Treat your time in the same way as you treat your money. Invest only in training that will improve you and make the most of professional development. Understand that the more difficult training courses should be retaken to get the most value from the educational opportunity. Be open to taking the same course from different instructors. Everyone brings to the table their unique experience and you will get a different perspective on the training objective.
Invest your time generously and you will build a solid professional reputation and get the highest level of results.
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