Book · By Stefan Gauci Scicluna
Training That Sticks
You paid for the training. A week later, nothing had changed. Training That Sticks is a plain, practical workbook for the owner or manager of a small team, with no training department, no consultant budget, and no more patience for courses that change nothing. It shows you how to pick training built to change behaviour, and how to make that change hold.
Written by a training and compliance practitioner who builds and accredits courses for a living.
You paid for the training. A week later, nothing had changed.
Most workplace training is judged on the wrong thing. People ask whether the session was enjoyable, not whether anyone did the job differently the following Monday. This workbook fixes that. It is written for the person who runs a small team and has to make training pay for itself, not for a learning department with a research budget.
Inside, you will learn how to
- Name the one behaviour you want before you spend a penny.
- Choose training built to change behaviour, not just to be enjoyed.
- Reinforce the learning through the crucial first thirty days.
- Prove the change with simple measures, no software and no budget.
Shown at work across finance, iGaming, manufacturing, hospitality, retail and property.
Inside the book
Ten chapters and a closing system, each with a fill-in tool, and a twelve-tool toolkit.
- Completion is not change
- Start with the behaviour
- Choosing training built to change
- Set people up before they learn
- Make it land in the room
- The first 30 days
- The manager is the multiplier
- Build the conditions
- Prove it changed
- When it still does not stick
It closes with your training-that-works system, a twelve-tool toolkit, and a Sector Behaviour Banks appendix for eight trades.
Who it is for
Written for the person who has to make training work in the real world, with a small team and a small budget.
Owners and managers
You run a team, you carry the cost of training, and you are the one who notices when nothing changes. This is a method you can run yourself, without hiring anyone.
Teams with no L&D function
No training department, no consultant on call. The book assumes exactly that and gives you steps you can follow between everything else you already do.
Anyone tired of forgettable courses
If you have paid for training that felt good on the day and vanished by the next week, this is the workbook that breaks the pattern.
What you take away
A simple, repeatable way to turn a training spend into a change you can see on the floor.
- A one-page way to define the single behaviour a piece of training is meant to change, so you buy the right thing in the first place.
- A short checklist for judging a course before you commit, built around whether it is designed to change what people do.
- A thirty-day reinforcement plan that fits around normal work, so the learning survives contact with the job.
- Plain measures you can run with a notebook and a calendar, no learning platform and no reporting tool required.
- A way to talk to your team about the change so it feels like support, not surveillance.
Formats and details
Available on Amazon in three formats.
About the author
Stefan Gauci Scicluna is a training and compliance practitioner, a university lecturer and a doctoral researcher, and the founder of a professional training institute. He builds and accredits courses for employers and training providers for a living, which is where the workbook comes from. The method in Training That Sticks is the same discipline he applies to client programmes, stripped back to what a manager can run alone.
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Training That Sticks, on Amazon.
A short, practical workbook you can read in an evening and start using the next day. If you would rather talk about training for your team, book a call and we will map it with you.
Available on Amazon: Kindle EUR 11.21, paperback EUR 21.57, hardcover EUR 30.21.
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