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The Educated Training Consumer - Why Is Training Undervalued? (free article
Training and development activities can increase the capabilities and abilities of most organizations. Virtually every recent management leaders (eg. Deming, Crosby, Senge), have stressed the importance of learning as a primary tool for organizational success. That said, training as a whole, is not consistently valued by managers or staff. Even when managers support training through what they say, when the time comes to allocate resources for training, it is often the new photocopier that wins out.
Getting A Return On Investment (ROI) From Training
This article by Robert Bacal explains how to optimize your return on investment (ROI) in training and development activities.
Improve Retention of your complex learning material (expert advice for trainers_
Improving retention from training is an ongoing and critical issue, since learning acquired during training is often not retained, or not applied. In this article Jones suggests some techniques, based on learning theory, to help trainers and educators increase the retention of learning, and in particular, complex materials.
Strategic Learning Contracts - Maximizing Training
Tom Peters once spoke of a sausage company in the U.S. that determined pay scales, in part by the amount of new things that staff learned. So, when a sausage assembly line worker learned something about accounting, that was five bucks an hour more on the paycheque. It's great to be able to have the luxury to do things like that. However, the closest we in government are going to get to such schemes is to eat the sausage made by the person who got the extra five bucks.
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