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Training: What's the Point?
Why should you bother to train your employees? How many times have your people attended a training sessions and nothing changed when they returned to work? How many times have your people attended the same training session two or three times? Then there's the issue of lost work time. This time can NOT be made up.
As if this weren't enough, there's the cost. Despite recession and the events of 9/11, 1surveys indicate that organizations did not, on average, report any marked changes in their training investments and activities between 2000 and 2001. The bulk of any changes may yet appear in subsequent data, but projections for the future suggest that previous trends in training expenditures will continue… | Read 
