In the February 3, 2010 edition of the On Line Business Examiner (BE) daily, it was reported that Workforce Central has $450,000 available to help Pierce County Washington businesses pay for training related costs. (Soft and technical skills). Franciscan Health System and MultiCare Health System already took advantage of the funding and indeed, 230 health care professionals completed training through the program.
Since training and consulting is part of the services I offer to clients, this made me wonder – how many other businesses took advantage of these dollars for training? Perhaps those that took advantage of these dollars had the mindset that training is an investment – not a cost.
In the next 5 BLOG entries, I will share some ways that you can make your investment of training dollars stretch as far as possible and how you can receive the maximum value that real-world learning events can offer your managers and employees.
Is training a cost to doing business – too expensive in terms of financial commitment? Or an investment in your most important resource – human capital. Stay tuned!
