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I'm trying to calculate Total training hours and some metrics with this information.
I have a doubt,
Do companies record the hours of training given ?(E.g. A training session that last 2 hours
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Training hours
posted at 1/2/2008 8:13 AM EST
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First: 1/2/2008 Last: 1/23/2008 |
I'm trying to calculate Total training hours and some metrics with this information.
I have a doubt, Do companies record the hours of training given ?(E.g. A training session that last 2 hours and was given to 10 employees, would be recorded as 2 hours of traning) or do they record the hours given per employee? (E.g. A training session that last 2 hours and was given to 10 employees, would be recorded as 20 hours of traning) |
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Training hours
posted at 1/3/2008 7:12 AM EST
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First: 9/27/2004 Last: 9/13/2011 |
It's up to you and your stakeholders to decide the best way to track this. That is usually based on what you need to improve (i.e. attendance rates, getting a targeted number of people trained, etc.)
Here are some metrics I have seen used. *Number of classes offered *Number of employees attending *Number of hours attended *Average cost per class *Cost per trainee *Training expenditures as a percent of personnel services |
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Training hours
posted at 1/23/2008 8:52 AM EST
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First: 1/2/2008 Last: 1/23/2008 |
The metric I want to use is: Training hous per employee.
[quote] On 2008-01-03 12:12, deltac wrote: It's up to you and your stakeholders to decide the best way to track this. That is usually based on what you need to improve (i.e. attendance rates, getting a targeted number of people trained, etc.) Here are some metrics I have seen used. *Number of classes offered *Number of employees attending *Number of hours attended *Average cost per class *Cost per trainee *Training expenditures as a percent of personnel services [/quote] |
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Training hours
posted at 1/23/2008 5:01 PM EST
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First: 4/15/2007 Last: 8/17/2009 |
It depends on which viewpoint you are taking. From a HR employee engagement/retention perspective, you would count number of hours per employee. For example, a common target is 40 hours per employee per annum.
From a training department perspective in which you were interested in overall department output, you would count number of hours delivered to all employees, in total. So, if you have 100 employees, each receiving 3 hours training in one year, that would amount to a total departmental output of 300 hours. Another perspective is that of the training managers interest in trainer workload. Here, they would be interested in the number of contact hours delivered per trainer. This would normally be calculated as a percentage. For example, a 60% load equates to 60% of the trainers time being taken up with delivering training. As deltac pointed out, it depends on the stakeholder and the view they are taking. Measuring for the sake of measuring something serves no ones purpose. The first question is, Why are you measuring? What do you want to achieve and what will you do with the numbers once you have them? Les Allan Author: From Training to Enhanced Workplace Performance Business Performance Pty Ltd http://www.businessperform.com |
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