Corporate Training Could Learn a Lot.
I’ve been to my share of corporate training which include the usual ice breakers and trust exercises and slides. Lots of slides. Powerpoint is abundant. One time I went to one of these trainings for 4 all consuming days.
Yesterday I went in with a bunch of other semi strangers of various levels of experience ranging from full on professionals to people, like myself, with no formal training and very little hobby experience to produce something real in 8 hours. A full length musical run twice after 8 hours of prep.
I was privileged to be a part of fund raiser for stuio-east.org. They do it each year where they take a holiday musical that they’ve run with kids in many of the roles for about a month and recast it with adults and run it again, but really making fun of ourselves the whole way through.
It was a long day. It was a hard day. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t sore today.
It was a way more valuable a look at team work, creativity in the moment and problem solving than any corporate training costing a super high amount of money could have given me.
If you could package that up into training it would be way more effective than all the jelly bean sorting team work seminars I could imagine. I don’t think you can do that because part of it was everyone involved was in. They were there because they chose to be. If you required this of anyone, as many corporate seminars are, the only word to describe what would follow would be doom. Doom.
Pity.
Well for those who have this kind of opportunity, I suggest you see it for way more than what’s on the surface. Then say yes.
