Timing Training

There's nothing more useless than gratuitous education.

My son, Robin, was a delegate last week on our PRINCE2 for Practitioners course. It was fascinating getting feedback from his whole experience. He found the course intense but rewarding; a sense-making of much of the chaos and jumble that made up his previous experience on projects.

Our conversation turned to his readiness for such training. Robin reflected that a few years ago he would simply have not brought enough reference points from his own experience to understand the relevance of much of PRINCE2.

To paraphrase the Bard - 'There is a tide in the affairs of men which, when trained at the ebb, leads on to fortune.' There is such a thing as premature training, gratuitous training, which is far less valuable, pointless even, than when training is timed to build upon some pertinent experience. 

Perhaps good training is like telling a joke well: its very much to do with timing.

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