How To Find A Trainer
You work in a small or medium sized business and your boss has asked you to organise a management training course for some of your managers. Where do you start and how do you know whether you are hiring the right trainer?
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Do Business Skills Training Courses Work?
When investing in business skills training for their staff many managers and leaders question whether it is effective. Does performance improve and can it be measured?
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Do Management Training Courses Work?
When investing in management training courses many businesses will question whether this is a valuable investment. In particular, I will be considering the value of training managers in people management skills.
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How To Source Cost Effective Staff Training
A dilemma faced by many businesses is where and how to source their staff training. Should they employ staff trainers? Should they engage the services of a managed learning provider? Should they contract with a corporate training company? Should they hire freelance trainers?
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Presentation Skills Training - A Case Study
In a recent article I asked the question, "Do business skills training courses work?" In order to help the reader fully appreciate the concepts and principles raised in that article I thought it would be useful to consider a case study of a staff member attending a presentation skills course.
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Are You Getting The Most From Your Training Budget?
It is a harsh reality of the current economic climate that many companies, large and small, are cutting back on their training budgets. But does a cut in your training budget mean that your employees have to get less training?
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Why Training Is Essential In A Recession
Many senior managers and business leaders will take the view that discretionary spending must be reduced or eliminated in a recession - it''s one of the founding principles behind prudent financial management. And of course, training falls into that category, right? Wrong!
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How To Cut Your Training Budget In Half
In times of economic austerity when businesses are looking to reduce their costs, cutting the training budget normally means reducing the amount of training delivery. Trainers Direct offers a great alternative for UK businesses.
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Find A Trainer In The UK
For most companies this usually means they will have to use a corporate training provider which can mean they will often pay twice as much as they need to for a typical training course. However, imagine the cost savings if you could find a trainer directly.
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