2. ACADEMY INDIAN SOCIETY FOR TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGING OBSOLESCENCE: PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY

3. ACADEMY CREATIVE WAYS TO REMAIN OBSOLETE PARIMAL N. GANDHI, DIRECTOR ACADEMY OF HUMAN EXCELLENCE BARODA

4. ACADEMY THIS PAPER IS USEFUL FOR 4 Those that really want to change 4 Those that want to convey the appearance of changing, while actually remaining unchanged

5. ACADEMY WHY REMAIN OBSOLETE? REWARDS FOR ORGANISATIONAL OBSOLESCENCE 4 Increased Customs Duty 4 Export Orders 4 No licenses for Potential Competitors

6. ACADEMY REWARDS FOR INDIVIDUALS The Public Sector 4 Seniority The Private Sector 4 The Job Jumpers 4 The Loyal

7. ACADEMY WHO MAY REMAIN OBSOLETE? 4 Everyone, at whatever level 4 Managing Director to Peon 4 Trainer, training manager or participant It is everyones birthright!

8. ACADEMY THEY HELP OTHERS TO REMAIN OBSOLETE TOO 4 Colleagues 4 Bosses 4 Departments 4 Organisations 4 Families 4 Nation

9. ACADEMY Two types 4 The stubborn mulish, refusing to change type 4 The sophisticated type that appears to go along while actually standing still - the dynamically static

10. ACADEMY Creative techniques used to sabotage training

11. ACADEMY TRAINING 4 One of the most potent tools for transformation. 4 Some professionals try to ensure that training takes place but does not succeed.

12. ACADEMY advanced techniques by chairmen managing directors chief executives

13. ACADEMY COST CUTTING 4 IS PENNY-WISE AND POUND-FOOLISH SLASHES TRAINING BUDGET

14. ACADEMY TOP MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES 4 GOES FOR ISO 9000 4 SERVES OLD WINE IN A NEW BOTTLE 4 Industrial Relations HRD

15. ACADEMY TOP MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES 4 SPENDS TRAINING BUDGET ON EVERYTHING EXCEPT TRAINING 4 RECRUITS MANAGERS AND STAFF CAREFULLY –THOSE NEAR RETIREMENT –THOSE WITH HEART TROUBLE –VIGILANCE CASES

16. ACADEMY MEASURES BENEFITS 4 INSISTS THAT RESULTS CAN NOT BE MEASURED 4 REFUSES TO SANCTION THE MONEY AND TIME TO MEASURE 4 KEEPS DOUBTING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TRAINING

17. ACADEMY MOST IMPORTANT… NEVER UNDERGO TRAINING themselves

18. ACADEMY TECHNIQUES USED BY TRAINING MANAGERS

19. ACADEMY TRAINING MANAGERS t... 4 TRAINS THE MAXIMUM NUMBER 4 KEEPS PROGRAMS SHORT 4 TENDERS TRAINING CONTRACTS

20. ACADEMY training managers t... Selects participants carefully No authority to implement No time left Those who are incorrigible For whom the training is irrelevant Sends intimation very late Creates a cadre of Participants

21. ACADEMY WHATEVER THEY CAN MANAGE, THEY CAN MISMANAGE... Dates Communication Trainer Travel, Stay and Meals Participant Meals Audiovisual equipment Electricity and Waiters/Peons Inauguration / Valediction

22. ACADEMY MOST IMPORTANT… NEVER UNDERGO TRAINING themselves

23. ACADEMY TECHNIQUES USED BY TRAINERS

24. ACADEMY The obsolete trainers 4 Feel a stake in human and organisational obsolescence. This increases the need for training. 4 They remain shining examples of obsolescence themselves.

25. ACADEMY The obsolete trainers 4 AVOID PREPARING 4 SINGLE PROGRAM - MULTIPLE TITLES 4 THEIR PROGRAMS ONLY CONTAIN HUMOUR Participants hate serious training and serious issues and these must be avoided.

26. ACADEMY The obsolete trainers 4 USES THE POST-LUNCH SESSION EFFECTIVELY 4 USES DRAMATICALLY INEFFECTIVE AUDIOVISUALS 4 USES LOTS OF JARGON

27. ACADEMY MOST IMPORTANT… NEVER UNDERGO TRAINING THEMSELVES

28. ACADEMY TRICKS PARTICIPANTS PLAY

29. ACADEMY PARTICIPANTS TRICKS 4 Resist being nominated 4 Continue working throughout the program 4 Take along pagers / mobile phones 4 Ask long, irrelevant questions 4 Demoralize the trainer

30. ACADEMY MANAGING OBSOLESCENCE 4 MANAGING THE OBSOLESCENCE OF PEOPLE IS NOT GOING TO BE EASY 4 IT WILL TAKE TREMENDOUS –COMMITMENT –COMPETENCE –EFFORT

31. ACADEMY GOOD LUCK!