Smart training

by Clay Carr

"At last--a practical guide for getting a real return on your training investment!" "How much money has your organization lost in the past year because people weren't properly trained? How often have you been frustrated when employees returned from glitzy and expensive courses and kept doing their jobs the same old way? How many hours have you and they wasted getting trained in some fashionable new idea that never really got off the ground in your company?" "If you're like most managers, your answer is "All too many!" But it doesn't have to be this way. Motorola's ROI from training runs as high as 3300 percent. So can yours." "How? The answer is Smart Training--a "consumers guide" to training for managers. In very practical terms, it shows you how to get the greatest return on your training investment.^ And it works whether you have a large in-house training department, have to contract for training, or have to use canned commercial training." "The author is a manager, who's also one o