“Follow the money,” goes the famous line in All the President’s Men. Many companies in the United States have received federal/state funding for training programs they needed to accomplish their business goals. How can your company learn more? Follow the money. This is also, then, good advice for Training Managers looking to find some recession-days [...]
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Some Found Articles Here’s what training departments are doing to face up to the challenge of the recession. Please keep in mind that the trends noted are for all kinds of training departments, but I assume primarily HR groups that focus on soft skills. Nevertheless, there are lessons here. The use of job aids can be a substitute for training or a supplement to training; that is, they can often replace the need for training or they can make training easier and faster. It all depends on the original analysis, but the use of job aids can save money. Job aids include equipment manuals, color-coding [...] If you want some insight on how some companies survived the last downturn (2000-2002 — not quite the recession this is) read this article in T&D published by ASTD. [Training and Development by the American Society of Training and Development] Share and Enjoy: I was shoveling snow lately. It was then that the idea for this website began to form. Snow job: This is when we begin to fill time with a lot of theory, some degree of which is irrelevant and useless. This can be prompted by many things, like lack of access to a machine [...] Not every task that your target audience must perform requires training. Most training professionals know this, but may have forgotten to apply it. However, during this time of intense scrutiny of costs, it is time to adjust priorities, and that includes the types of tasks that are included in an equipment course. Typically, during the “analysis” [...] |
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