We didn’t get agreement on the audience definition.

We didn’t concur on learning objectives.

Some presenters included material that assumed prior knowledge.

We didn’t work backward from those objectives to the specific activities that would meet them.

We didn’t have a test or other measure of accomplishment.

We didn’t ask for participant feedback.

We took 30 minutes for a break out of a 4-hour workshop (an eighth of the time).

We had instructors and staff take space sold to students.

We didn’t tie the content back to the core behavior.

We didn’t repeat and reinforce key skills.

We didn’t set expectations that fit the learning objectives.

It was just bad, as training goes.

Even the excellent material and entertaining moments were too small a portion of the whole. A bootcamp should be lean and have maybe 10% fat; the rest going to skill building, knowledge transfer, and verifying that students understand. It should be a repeatable activity with predictable results. It wasn’t.

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