Coming from a similar background as you (corporate leadership trainings) I agree that lifelong learning seems to often be put into the responsibility of the employee. We tend to forget that especially in today’s tough workin environment employees often simply do not have the time nor energy to focus on learning. It’s not so much that they wouldn’t want to, they just lack the resources. Employers need to be made aware and provide the resources (especially time). After all, such an investment is likely to pay off for them as well.

Also, with regards to training the trainers I have witnessed that many organisations simply teach the trainers just the materials but not HOW to engage learning. They expect the trainers to be good enough at teaching the materials, and evaluate them after the seminars by asking the students how they felt about that particular trainer. Oftentimes, that is where the evaluation ends, however. Whether transfer actually occured or the trainer was just particularly good at making the participants feel good for a while is often never really evaluated. As you say this is the really tricky part.