Corporate training office operated and especially its relevance

Corporate training

There is this story of an elderly middle level Accounts Manager in a paint manufacturing Corporate training company. This gentleman after putting in nearly two decades of hard and quality service in this particular organisation, finally found himself in a position to head the Department. In fact, there was absolutely no opposition either. Both the Management and his colleagues wanted unanimously for him to take over the reins of the somewhat struggling Department. He undoubtedly had an unrivaled depth of knowledge about the Accounts processes involved, why certain bills were taking too long to mature, how the recovery process can be speeded up, etc.

Still, it took him nearly an year to properly take up the new assignment. This was because of his age (he was in his early 50s) and the fact that he was not at all conversant with the IT systems in place. Now, the knowledge of how the MIS in his Corporate training office operated and especially its relevance to the Accounts department was mandatory for everyone in the Accounts, leave aside the senior-most guy in the Department. He was given Training on the Systems part of the Accounts functioning. Initially, he had lot of reservations about taking the training. But after a good amount effort from the trainers as well as he himself, slowly but surely he began to come to grasp with the systems. And what is more, was more than impressed with the same.