Beneficial Experience: A few years ago, I was able to participate in a 3-day diversity and inclusion training with fellow employees and the entire executive council at my previous organization. This 3-day training was intense and also amazing. While I will acknowledge this type of training would not be good for everyone and is only appropriate at certain times in an organization and/or when the employees have somewhat of a relationship, I will still argue that this was an extremely beneficial training for all who had the privilege of attending and participating. This training included multiple interactive activities and multiple times where we all had to crucially think and explain our thoughts. This training was very beneficial for all that attended, and we all learned a lot about each other and the world.
Non-Beneficial Experience: I have always felt that training via online module for any topic that is crucially important to the organization and the well-being of the employees does not fully train employees on the topics. Many trainings that are thrown at employees with nothing, but an email and an online module are not taken all that seriously and do not effectively train people on most topics.