Too many options, too little time: the real challenge HR professionals face when choosing training

Too many options, too little time: the real challenge HR professionals face when choosing training
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Today, those working in Human Resources face an increasingly complex task: choosing the right training.
Not for themselves, but for dozens — sometimes hundreds — of people with different roles, skills and expectations.

A challenge that goes beyond the quality of the courses: it’s about managing complexity — too many providers, too many catalogs, too many formats.
And paradoxically, too much choice can block the decision process.

The paradox of too much choice

A famous study by Columbia University (Iyengar & Lepper, When choice is demotivating, 2000) showed how an excess of options can reduce decision-making capability and increase frustration.
In the HR world, this translates into hours spent comparing similar training proposals, duplicated contacts, hard-to-compare quotes, and catalogs that don’t communicate with each other.

The result?
Many training managers end up choosing the providers they already know, even when they aren’t the best fit.
Not because they lack curiosity, but because they lack time and structured connections.

The real challenge for HR

Today, HR professionals are looking not just for courses, but for coherence:

  • They want a unified language to compare proposals.
  • They need tools to assess provider quality and impact.
  • They seek platforms that connect business needs with the right training offer without getting lost.

The difficulty isn’t “finding a course,” but finding the right course efficiently, transparently and collaboratively.

When training becomes simple again

Digital innovation has made it possible to merge management tools, search spaces and relationship environments into one ecosystem.
In this scenario, Tableda was created: a platform that simplifies the entire process by creating direct connections between companies, HR and providers.

Tableda is not an impersonal marketplace, but a shared space where:

  • HR teams can search, compare and select training based on real needs.
  • Training providers can manage their offer, demonstrate their value and maintain ongoing relationships with companies.
  • Both sides operate through integrated dashboards, automating registrations, certificates and communications.

Conclusion

In the chaos of training offers, HR professionals don’t need “more choices”: they need better choices.
Tools that reduce the gap between demand and supply, creating a common, transparent language oriented to value.

And when technology and relationships meet — as happens on Tableda — training returns to what it should always be: a bridge between people, skills and shared growth.

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