Business success should be the impetus behind online training - not a desire to save money, warn skills experts. But as the economic slowdown bites, training is often a tempting item to slash from IT budgets. In the past this might have seemed little more than rhetoric. Today, however, it's a view shared by an increasingly large number of people. But he's confident that while training was traditionally the first target of expense control when times were tough, this time around companies should recognise that it's mission-critical.
Companies looking to control expenses are actually better off investing in training.
As they downsize, it's important to keep employees up to speed and to help individuals step up to their new roles. We need to take the emphasis away from delivery methods and focus instead on how we can deploy learning in a way that makes people want to take advantage of it. May. Elearning is an important element of its overall corporate learning programme and part of a culture of continual development. Investing in people is a big business strategy and from a staff attrition perspective, my feeling is that it works. As part of the programme, employees have access to advanced IT training courses in their own time.