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Global Networks - the key to building global training capability

What is the single greatest people-related challenge to any organisation once it starts to operate outside its domestic market-place and to develop international or even global expansion plans?

More often than not it is finding a way to build truly effective management and staff teams across international locations and national cultures. And that is distilled into the question “how do you achieve consistency of training programme quality and content as well as sensitivity to local market cultures?”

If this describes your organisation, you have a number of options. You can devise a standard programme in one country- probably your “home” country - and have trainers from that base travel and deliver it, probably using one language, wherever it is required. This can be costly and often means you lose the local market sensitivity.

You can have your own organisation in different countries deliver look-alike programmes in conjunction with local training providers in local languages. This approach can be more cost effective, and it addresses the local market sensitivity issue, but you can lose the consistency and quality of content.

Or you can access a global network of training organisations, under the umbrella of one organisation, which can roll out your global training programme to a consistent quality and in a standardised format, in any location, in any language, using local trainers but with an agreed price for the whole project.

This one-stop approach is increasingly being used by multinational organisations to achieve the balancing act of quality, integrity and cost effectiveness.

They know that the lead organisation can access best-in-class specialist trainers and can organise the logistics from start to finish, providing one point of contact for the client.

Such global training network organisations are relatively rare, but they certainly exist, and they certainly add value by providing local coaching services, online psychometric assessments, and web-based learning resources. And they completely understand that when training and people development has to “go global” the client enterprise needs internationally networked suppliers who are flexible and adaptable, and who can give support 24/7, anywhere in the world.

Rhema is one such global supplier. We know that it can be done, and we know that this trend is a fast growing one.