I was asked yesterday by a friend how I learned to cook after leaving home. I explained that largely I was self-taught. I bought food I liked in Australia, and then when I moved back to London. I followed the cooking instructions, experimented a little, sort advice from people who were experienced and learnt through trial and error. I don’t recall having poisoned anyone in 30 plus years!

I didn’t need months of training, an expensive cooking course or a “cooking coach” to cook a Sunday roast lunch for 8 people. The same applies in business. Speed of learning is as important as the quality of the learning. Yet a great many people and companies don’t think and act like that. They defer to regimented training timetables that have little to do with those being taught, and all to do with the trainer justifying their value and fees.