During the past 30 years, a lot of corporate training has garnered a bad reputation. I've heard some say the culprit is over-reliance on PowerPoint or Keynote. Others in our field bemoan expediency brought on by tighter budgets, or instructional designers whose sole qualifications are on-the-job experience. The truth is that training mode, training budget and trainer competency are really not the largest contributors to this problem.

Instead, the real issue is a widely-held misunderstanding by the misinformed majority that presenting information in a pseudo-teaching environment is training. But presenting information is not the same as training. It's just information, presented in an attractive wrapper. Instead, good training aligns with goals and delivers results. And it doesn't have to cost much to be effective. Here's how to easily build a great instructor-led corporate training on a tight budget.