| |OCTOBER 20208Consultants ReviewHolding an MBA in HR from University of Mysore, Vishal, in his 18-years long career, has worked across an array of companies that include VAPS, IonIdea, and Ererio.By Vishal Chhiber, VP - Human Resource, NTTCORPORATE TRAINING ­ MERITS & FALLACIESntellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death' ­ Albert Einstein. Nothing could be truer about training in the corporate world of today than what Einstein said in the last century. Learning is now a lifelong expectation from any corporate being right from the birth in the corporate world as a fresher till the last day you are serving the organisation and even beyond as the concept of retiring is a thin line which is fast fading.Employee PerspectiveTo add to the lifelong learning paradigm, employees have to keep pace with the changing work world and related client expectations by upgrading their skillsets on a real-time basis. The options they have is either taking time, effort and money from their own resources to do so or rely on their organisation to drive it for them. We all know the reliance by default is on the latter option. Some employees still on their own initiative drive this themselves but they are not many and understandably so given the demands of today's corporate world that the employees withstand. Hence organisations need to step in and be seen as the enabler and facilitator from an employees' perspective.Challenges in Corporate TrainingThe best of organisations need to evolve constantly to meet the changing landscape of the learning and development domain. No longer is the content prepared a IN MY OPINIONI
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