When looking at training options, sometimes you are best off to consider sending key staff away to specialized courses. Such courses are usually run as part of a traveling road show of sorts with credible experts who come to your town or to major key cities in your part of the country and advertise their presence via such partner agencies as the chamber of commerce or other business group. These courses can be extremely useful – but they can be equally expensive with costs for the day of around the $500. If the event is out of town, add several hundred dollars in travel and accommodation costs and its easy to see why few companies can afford to send more than one or two staff at a time. For many managers the obvious alternative is to use the option of in-house training.
The advantages of in-house courses include:
- what transpires during the training day is confidential since other companies are not present
- convenience and less disruption - courses can be scheduled according to your business' day-to-day activities and held in-house, so employees don't need non productive time away from the office to travel
- value for money - there are no travel and accommodation costs
- better interaction and effective learning - because all relevant employees will learn together, there is more scope for them to interact, which can lead to more effective learning during and after the course
- time savings - you don't need to design a course and, and you have only limited need to train trainers since the only requirement is a good communicator
- freedom of expression - employees can talk openly in the knowledge that competitors are not present
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