This presentation explores why many organizations resist training expenditures and why training is a good investment.

1. Why Invest in Training?
Garland Coulson “Captain Time”

2. People are a Resource
• Their skills are what build and maintain your
organization

3. But What If They
Lack Tools?
• Imagine a graphic designer working
without a computer or with an
badly out of date computer
• Imagine a call center employee
working without a telephone
• Imagine a woodcutter with a dull
axe

4. We Provide the
Technology
Tools For Them
• Computers
• Software & apps
• Tablets
• Phones
• Smart Phones

5. But What About
Their Non-Tech
Tools
• Their soft skills?

6. The Missing Skills
• Time management
• People (interpersonal) skills
• Communication skills
(writing/verbal)
• Networking
• Teamwork
• Critical thinking
• Leadership

7. So Why Aren’t
WE Providing
the Skills?
• Skills that are so critical to our
success?

8. Can’t Leave it to
Universities
• Schooling is the beginning of education, not
the end

9. Honing Skills
• Like sharpening the woodcutter’s axe
• Building upon existing skills

10. Why Don’t More
Companies
Train?
• Scared of losing people after
training
• Expense with no immediate visual
benefit
• Budget preferences is for hard
goods such as new computers or
equipment or for measurable
things like marketing

11. Why It Still Makes Sense
To Train
• Computer and marketing expenses are often
also wasted
• Computers (depreciation – continually
upkeep and IT costs)
• Marketing (only a percentage has positive
ROI)
• Even with 50% staff turnover, the remainder of
your team will perform a LOT better for YEARS
• Can find KPIs (key performance indicators) to
measure training effectiveness

12. Time Management Skills
Training
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