CIO.COM: SIX WAYS TO TRAIN YOUR EMPLOYEES ON THE CHEAP
On CIO.com, Mary K. Pratt works with many small business owners to suggest six ways you can train your employees while keeping under budget. the six options include rotating employees, setting up forums, and pairing workers together.
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“We have to keep programmers and developers on the cutting edge,” she says. “There’s no way around that.”
Hanger says ongoing education is important because it helps keep technical workers interested, innovative and motivated. But training programs and educational conferences can be pricey. And given the state of many corporate budgets today, CIOs report that such offerings are simply out of their financial reach.
“It’s unfortunate that training is always the first thing to fall under the budget ax, because if you’re not investing in your people, you fall behind. And your workers remember that. So when the good times are back, they’ll be gone,” says Robert Rosen, CIO at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases in Bethesda, Md., and a past president of Share, an IBM user group.
So, what’s a CIO to do? Follow the lead of these executives who have found ways to stretch their training dollars through efficient, yet effective, arrangements.