How to Build a Realistic Training Budget
Use Performance-Based Analysis Procedures to Plan for 2008
If you haven’t already, it’s time now to start planning your 2008 training budget. You’ll need to consider what major changes and initiatives will be implemented in the new year, and budget for them now. CEP recommends that organizations lay the foundation for 2008 in two ways: first, by assessing your own internal learning organization and second, by meeting with your key internal customers to identify their goals and how you can support them in the year to come.
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CEP’s Tips for Making Training and Documentation Manuals Performance-Based
View the Job from the Performer’s Shoes
In many organizations, there are lots of resources that have been developed over the years, including training and documentation manuals. These manuals are jam-packed with information that might be helpful; that is, if the manuals were ever opened. Sometimes this same information has been put online so that performers can have easy access to the documentation. Yet still the information is rarely used. By following some simple tips, you can turn technical documentation from seldom-opened to widely-used.
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Is Your “Off the Shelf” Training Performance-Based?
9 Critical Questions to Ask Before You Write the Check
If you’re like most trainers, you have a bookcase or two full of off-the-shelf training materials. These days, the wide array of choices creates a buyer’s paradise. Need a quick solution when a department head asks you for “training” on teamwork? No problem. But not all off-the-shelf training is created equal. At the end of the day, what you really want is a product that delivers the right solution to a specific performance problem in the most cost-effective manner possible.
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