An online survey conducted by ASTD asked people what changes have been implemented within their companies’ training departments to weather today’s turbulent economy. What have you seen in your company, and how does that compare to what these statistics show
Archive for April, 2009
Training Budgets Adjust Due to the Economy
Posted: 15th April 2009 by Brad Selers in UncategorizedTags: asked-people, companies, dollars-per, learning-or-web, moved-training, new-content, online-survey, reduced-travel, remainder, statistics-show, the-remainder, today, weather-today, year
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Need-to-Know Training
Posted: 10th April 2009 by Roxihost in UncategorizedTags: compliance, customer, following-ideas, frequency, lunch-sessions, organization, provide-crucial, skype, such-as-skype, training, training-events, training-online
Everyone feels pinched these days, with most organizations cutting way back on training expenditures. Many companies seek newer, cheaper ways to deliver necessary training, with an emphasis on necessary. (Training topics considered “unnecessary” can include communications, interpersonal skills, negotiating, and general finance.) Some companies require a minimum number of participants in each class, others have limited the frequency of training events, and others are eliminating those non-essential topics.