Structural programs are hard, let’s do training programs

We’ve all run into this situation: An organisation is doing something bad, suggesting something deep needs to change to fix it, something whose remedy would shake the deep foundations of the organisation, and which there is no appetite to address. So, they mandate a training program.

cf tokenism and table stakes, individual solutions to structural problems.

• Work ‘wellness’ programmes don’t make employees happier
• Implicit bias trainings are used to fight racism, but IAT science is flawed.
• People often limit their creativity by continually adding new features to a design rather than removing existing ones