Most good manufacturing practices (GMP) training that I encounter is not necessarily bad, just irrelevant. In fact, the same could be said for most training departments. They jealously guard their turf and deliver mediocre, perfunctory training. Names get checked off the list, and the training department goes about its business of being irrelevant. (Ouch!)

There is nothing that could be more exciting and fulfilling than being part of a dynamic training group that equips its organization to be a finely tuned workforce of scholars that embraces GMP as a business enabler.

Unfortunately, rather than a graduate education in the pharmaceutics of regulations, our best and brightest are subjected to a mind-dulling deck of tired old PowerPoint slides.

Frankly, the problem is endemic, and here are the top 10 reasons why:

1. The concepts are not applied to the real world. We herd the minions into the cafeteria and deliver the obligatory annual GMP training with total disrespect for what each employee does as part of her job every day.

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