Training

Tony did a good post about computer illiteracy. That also started me thinking on another thing too and that is training. Alot of times organizations put training at the bottom of the barrel. It is something that we will fund later. It is something that our employees can do later. We fail to see the benefits in productivity that training can offer. There are ways to reduce training costs. Maybe you send a few select people to training and they return and train others internally. Sometimes it can be cost effective to bring someone in house and conduct the training there as opposed to sending someone to class. It does not do us any good to have new technology or software if our users cannot use them. Even if they are computer literate, maybe it can make them more efficient. I think that too many times we look at the bottom line too much instead of seeing the benefits that can be gained from a trained, efficient, technical literate work force.