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Business training with a real difference

It is a simple fact today that no business can be sustainable if its people are not growing and improving their management and overall business skills.

Recognising the importance of growth and improvement is one thing, but finding relevant development or training options is another story. How do you find a training programme that recognises your company's specific needs? Or, understands that you genuinely want to develop staff but simply cannot afford to have key members out of office for weeks or months at a time? And what about the training budget that you need to stretch amongst a number of people?

It may well be useful to consider one of Albert Einstein's famous quotes: "I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."

Einstein may have said that many decades and business cycles ago, but this is spot on when considering the current corporate environment. The majority of development institutions still tend to focus heavily on theory and academics, often failing to take the complexities and pressures of the "real" corporate business environment into account.

Ideally, you need a coach or trainer who understands your business environment and who can balance the brutal reality and practicality of business with appropriate business theory. In many respects, some of the theory expounded is 5 or more years old and, while useful as a guideline, hardly takes into account today's challenges.

"Clients (of business training institutions) are becoming clear as to what they want and what they do not want. They are also not prepared to pay exorbitant prices for programmes that do not add value," says Johan Burger, an executive and management development consultant and former full-time lecturer at the Stellenbosch University Business School.

So, the best training partner for you is one that has the necessary theoretical and academic background, but who also understands your business environment and your daily challenges.

Marathon is such an organisation - the team brings years of business and corporate experience to the table, offering you facilitation and development of business training programmes. From a practical perspective, they are also practising management consultants who work and consult closely with businesses similar to yours, all day and every day.

Marathon's training methods are focused on providing practical, real and cost effective programmes, always with the emphasis of staying in touch with your reality and not necessarily sticking to what the textbook says.

To find out more about Marathon's business training and how you will benefit from it, contact them at 021 912 4004 or reinier@marathongroup.co.za.