How are Pivots management development programs different from traditional training workshops?
They are different in several ways. First, we are not a “training” company, though we’re often misinterpreted as such. Pivot is a development company. Now the difference between the two may seem small to you, but it is very important to us. Training is the process of teaching someone a new skill, usually technical in nature, whereas development is the process of getting people to use the skills they already have more effectively. This distinction is important because, depending upon whom you read, behavioral scientists tell us that the average person uses only somewhere between 3% and 25% of his/her potential resources, abilities, and talents. If people in your company are operating at less than their full potential, think of how much more your company would gain if that output could be raised. Second, our development programs are based upon a proven principle in education called “spaced repetition.” This principle states that there is much higher retention of subject matter when a stu
