Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
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From: Kelman, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 9:26 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Age Poll Results: 49.47
There is a risk of training new talent.
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However, we had put a lot of financial and time resources into training
this guy and he up and quit. It soured management on internal transfers
and training for a while.
IMHO there is greater long-term risk in NOT training new talent. After a
decade or more of this, there isn't any talent left, because you didn't have
anyone training the new folk entering the job market in our skills.
This is, of course, a classic case of short-term thinking, as is the
old-fashioned thinking that technical training is a one-time event and not a
continuous need for *all* employees, not just we techies.
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Indeed.
I just finished two weeks on the road doing some training. What
I found was the classic story: there is a huge interest in training
by the employees, and not such a huge willingness to invest in
training by the management. [There are exceptions, of course.]
It seems there is a great need for some "catch up" training as
well as time to start thinking about training to replace retiring
staff (probably past time to start, eh?).
But, of course, I have a vested interest in all that.
Yes. It was paying work doing what I love to do. So that was
great.
Please note: if your organization will be doing training, and
if we can meet your needs, call us direct; if you call a company
that subcontracts us, your company will pay more and the
instructor will get less.
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