douglas

Hey Mike,

As a management consultant and coach, I notice that a lot of companies could benefit from giving their employees more management training opportunities, however, they often put it off to save money. Do you have any advice or tips for companies who are facing this decision?

Thanks
Bert Zethof
The Surge Strategies Group

Thanks Bert – the investment in management and leadership training is crucial to an organization’s success yet, often such expenditures are one of the first budget items to be cut as you recognize in your question.

In the perfect world the organization would send employees away to take high impact degree programs at a university and/or have a customized program designed, developed and delivered for them.

In today’s recessionary environment, a more incremental approach needs to be taken whereby having key employees test drive a series of one day workshops may be a good solution. Such workshops are offered by either private training companies or by established universities with a proven track record in meeting the learning and development needs of mid career professionals.

This approach is a good way to ‘test the waters’ and can lead to the hopeful decision to build a more formalized training strategy around sort but intense workshop/seminar offerings.

Best wishes!

Mike