Comments on: Staff training. A Very Good Idea. http://www.technibble.com/staff-training-a-very-good-idea/ A Resource for Computer Repair Technicians & to get PC tech support help. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:49:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Nick http://www.technibble.com/staff-training-a-very-good-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-740 Nick Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:17:06 +0000 http://www.technibble.com/staff-training-a-very-good-idea/#comment-740 Staff training is a point of much contention atm here in Perth. Everyone is looking for new staff in nearly all industries and the ironic thing is that very few companies do much training (on either internal systems or external training). For example most software dev companies don't offer staff the opportunity to train on the latest technology. I just thought that this was to do with everyone being so busy and just not being able to allocate time to do the training but someone recently pointed out that companies are hesitant about training their staff because the staff might leave for a better job elsewhere..... Interestingly some organisations estimate that the cost of replacing a staff member can be as high as 2-3 times their yearly salary!! Ok, so doing the maths it must be cheaper to offer staff training with an incentive of a pay rise if they remain with the company? IMHO the best way to retain staff is to be proactive and facilitate a healthy professional development culture within an organisation. Staff training is a point of much contention atm here in Perth. Everyone is looking for new staff in nearly all industries and the ironic thing is that very few companies do much training (on either internal systems or external training). For example most software dev companies don’t offer staff the opportunity to train on the latest technology. I just thought that this was to do with everyone being so busy and just not being able to allocate time to do the training but someone recently pointed out that companies are hesitant about training their staff because the staff might leave for a better job elsewhere….. Interestingly some organisations estimate that the cost of replacing a staff member can be as high as 2-3 times their yearly salary!!

Ok, so doing the maths it must be cheaper to offer staff training with an incentive of a pay rise if they remain with the company? IMHO the best way to retain staff is to be proactive and facilitate a healthy professional development culture within an organisation.

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