There's no need or mandate to have staff with certifications. My thought was that I would like to bring the skill level here up a notch or two, and working towards certification would provide a goal, give the staff something tangible as a result of their effort, and help them career-wise.
I'd like to get them each to take at least one training with a live instructor if I can. I think there is benefit to that experience . As Sherry suggests, sending one person to each class and having them come back and train the others could work. I'll definitely set up a lab environment for them here (actually they can do it themselves) and use the video training to supplement or replace the classroom training, as well as using self guided tutorials, etc. I was just wondering what was common elsewhere for staff development. Anyone have experience with Trainsignal or other similar products? From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 12:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Staff training I agree with most of what Michael already outlined. I'd also like to point out that there are employee's who see that type of formal training as a vacation from work. and really get nothing out of it. You should also evaluate and try to quantify what you or your company is trying to get out of this. For example, is the need to have a certain number of in house employees with MCITP certification? If that is the business driver, then at least you know what the requirements are. If not, then trying a combination of multiple forms of training might make more sense. You could license one of the video series, and have the employees work from home for a week to complete the course, for a fraction of that $27000 figure. You could also consider the Boot Camps, which virtually guarantee certification, but at a much higher cost. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: "Ralph Smith" <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Date: 10/12/2011 12:17 PM Subject: Staff training ________________________________ This may be a little OT, but I was just pricing out some training for 3 staff here with the idea of sending them to some classroom training for Windows 7 and Server 2008 administration. If I target the courses related to "MCITP Enterprise Desktop Administrator on Windows 7" certification and the "MCITP Server Administrator on Windows Server 2008" certification, (and this is from ONLC because they have a local office, but New Horizons seems to be about the same) the appropriate courses include three five day courses and one three day course. The total cost at their published prices would be almost $27,000 for three staff. I don't think I can get that through our budget process. For those who provide training for staff development, is this kind of classroom training the way to go? Are there other alternatives for classroom training, or do you use other training resources such as video training from places like Trainsignal? I'm looking for a bit of a reality check, as well as suggestions. We haven't provided this kind of staff training up to now, so I have no experience in this area. For myself I have relied on Google Training and some good books, but I was looking for something more formal/structured. Appreciate any comments and advice. Ralph ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> > ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ <http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/> or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
