Training Policies?

Training — 05 March 2009

Training Policies – Do you have them? Do you stick to them?

What is a training policy anyway?

Well, a good training policy is like a road map. Any member of staff should be able to pick up and within a couple of moments, work out where they are and where they will be going next.

“OK, so I am here and in 6 months, I will be here”

OK granted, most training policies aren’t the most exciting of reads – But what if you don’t have them.

Imagine going on a journey with no road map. Worse than that – imagine taking somebody else (your staff) for a ride and saying “I am not quite sure how you are going to get there”

Googling around, I came across a site for a large UK hospital/health trust.

The website is obviously a content management system where some IT boffins set up the categories and then individual departments just “pour” in the contents.

But on the section “training policies” – there was nothing.

In these difficult economic times, staff are the greatest asset a business can have. Computers & infrastructure don’t get you out of trouble – people do.

So imagine, if you looked there and saw there was no obvious way of seeing what training was available to you, when & why.

How motivated would you be?

Probably not very…

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