PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT OR PRODUCTIVITY?

When you train or coach inside of a company, every organization has their own understandings and goals about what they are striving to achieve. You will therefore want to find out. “What does this company want first and foremost—is it the personal development of the people who work there or is it being productive?” Obviously, every organization has to produce something, whether it is a product, a service, or information. And more than that, every organization will want to be highly productive. Each one will want to be the most productive in its industry.

Yet while it is great to set productivity as the immediate outcome, it is actually not very smart to do that. Shocking? Well, do you know why? The answer is actually pretty simple: Healthy productivity is a an outcome of people development. After all, what enables people to produce, to be highly productive, and to rise up and produce the best? When they feel that they are valued and respected, and when they feel that their work is valued and respected.