Comments on: Articulating the value of training http://www.rational-scrum.com/2010/02/articulating-the-value-of-training/ Making Scrum work: informal discussions on process improvement Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:57:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=5615 hourly 1 By: Nicole De Falco http://www.rational-scrum.com/2010/02/articulating-the-value-of-training/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Nicole De Falco Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:01:27 +0000 http://www.rational-scrum.com/?p=154#comment-17 During the recession in the early '90s, I worked for a small HRD consulting firm. Our clients were cutting back on training left and right. One gentleman said, "In a tough economy, training is the universal donor. Our budget gets redirected to fuel other areas of the business deemed more vital." I'm glad to hear that 20yrs later major companies have figured the importance of training. Hopefully with resources such as the ROI formulas you've provided, training professionals in small/midsized firms will be armed to make strong business cases for training expenditures. It's really been up to those of us in corporate education, training, learning--whatever you want to dub us--to tie ensure our efforts are directly linked to organizational objectives. Otherwise, we deserve to be universal donors--giving our budgets to other departments with a better tie-in to company performance. Excellent content! During the recession in the early ’90s, I worked for a small HRD consulting firm. Our clients were cutting back on training left and right. One gentleman said, “In a tough economy, training is the universal donor. Our budget gets redirected to fuel other areas of the business deemed more vital.”

I’m glad to hear that 20yrs later major companies have figured the importance of training. Hopefully with resources such as the ROI formulas you’ve provided, training professionals in small/midsized firms will be armed to make strong business cases for training expenditures. It’s really been up to those of us in corporate education, training, learning–whatever you want to dub us–to tie ensure our efforts are directly linked to organizational objectives. Otherwise, we deserve to be universal donors–giving our budgets to other departments with a better tie-in to company performance.

Excellent content!

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