Training styles

I'm sitting in a software training session and I keep thinking that there has to be a better way. Management has purchased a new piece of reporting software do now all of the analysts are attending a workshop for the next two days. Because none of us have been given access yet, today will mainly be a meet and greet and hopefully tomorrow we can run some queries on live data.

If the past proves to be an indicator for the future we will finish this program and get access at some future date, well past our memory of what we learned today. My preference would be to get the software first, even in demo mode so that I can become familiar with it, then after a few weeks receive training. Doing this would make training workshops shorter and the questions would be better.

Hopefully this time will be different.