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CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Task Force Training Develops New Leaders,
Solves Real Business Issues and Helps Cut Costs
Experts say assigning up-and-coming
talent to task forces is less expensive than sending them
to outside leadership courses, and that leadership candidates
can learn more by working on a company’s real-life business
problems than they would from case studies or role-playing.
To make task force assignments most effective as a development
tool, companies should offer coaching and debriefing to
ensure that the right lessons are reinforced.
Read more about training using task forces.
Also:
Warming Up for Leadership
Luxottica Group: Optimas Award Winner for Managing
Change
Creating Tomorrow’s Workforce: Managing and Developing
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PRACTICAL
APPROACHES
Closing the Skills Gap
Companies like Caterpillar and San
Antonio’s University Health System are examples of how organizations
are using training and development programs to bridge the
space between their employees’ skills and their organization’s
needs.
Read more about closing the skills gap.
Also:
Sun Healthcare Group: Optimas Award Winner for Vision
Amid Calls to Bolster U.S. Innovation, Experts Lament Paucity
of Basic Math Skills
Your Co-Worker, Your Teacher
Dear Workforce: How Do I Choose the Best Method for
Retraining an Entrenched Workforce?
View the skills gap report from the American Society for
Training & Development
(Acrobat reader
required)
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NEWS AND EVENTS
Quick Takes
Corporate Trainers Pressed for
Time: Companies are anxious to minimize the amount of
time that employees spend in training that takes them away
from their jobs.
Click
here to read more.
Corporate Training Administration Takes a Budget Bite: Nearly 15 percent of survey participants said the admin cost—between 20 percent and 50 percent of training budgets—was too high.
Click
here to read more.
Shoring Up Workers’ Skills: Under a British government
plan, eligible state employees would receive training in
basic skills, plus have the opportunity to earn qualifications
leading to higher pay grades, according to Britain’s Government
Skills sector.
Click
here to read more.
Tops in Executive Education: The Financial Times’
annual list includes U.S. and European schools. No surprise:
Harvard leads the field.
Click
here to read more.
Thomson’s Career and Education Business Sold: The
Thomson Corp. assets being acquired include the brands and
businesses of Wadsworth, Delmar Learning, Gale, Heinle,
Brooks/Cole and South-Western.
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here to read more. |
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DISCUSSION
Policies on Training Assessments
Posted in the
Training & Organizational Development Forum:
A reader writes: “I am developing a policy
for employees who do not successfully complete training
assessments. Continued employment is based on successful
completion of the training programs and assessments. I am
looking for some best practices on how to make sure that
legal bases are covered with the assessments and training
objectives when it comes time to release an employee who
does not pass an assessment during the training course.”"
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METRICS
LEARNING INVESTMENTS
Average expenditure as a percentage of payroll
(without benefits and taxes)
| 1999 |
3.20% |
| 2000 |
3.37 |
| 2001 |
2.85 |
| 2002 |
2.47 |
| 2003 |
2.05 |
| 2004 |
2.20 |
| 2005 |
2.20 |
| 2006* |
2.57 |
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Average expenditure per employee (U.S. dollars) |
| 1999 |
$1,307 |
| 2000 |
1,381 |
| 2001 |
1,509, |
| 2002 |
1,366 |
| 2003 |
1,299 |
| 2004 |
1,368 |
| 2005 |
1,424 |
| 2006* |
1,435 |
| *Projected |
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| Note: Survey
of 22 large global companies. |
| Source:
American Society for Training & Development,
2006 State of the Industry Report, January 2007 |
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