Dedicated Training Days Every Week

Hi All,

Has anyone ever used the idea of having one day a week that is dedicated to giving required trainings? We unfortunately don't have a good training system and it has been hard to keep track of who needs what training. Not only that, we have two sites (east coast and west coast in the US) so the time difference can be tricky as well as not wanting to give the same training multiple times. I was considering utilizing one day a week for a couple hours in the day to give any required trainings across both sites so that way it might be easier to schedule them out and do larger group trainings for both sites at the same time.

Thoughts?

Remember this equation that many, many professionals never encounter before making decisions like what you are talking about.... T=$

How are going to justify the loss of 20% of a work week?

Quality_Goblin said:

We unfortunately don't have a good training system and it has been hard to keep track of who needs what training.

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I have to ask if this is your opinion, or some quantifiable data which suggests the root cause of problems is the ineffectiveness of a training “system”?

Randy said:

Remember this equation that many, many professionals never encounter before making decisions like what you are talking about.... T=$

How are going to justify the loss of 20% of a work week?

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The trainings are required regardless, so they would have to take them anyway. I'm not sure I understand.

Quality_Goblin said:

The trainings are required regardless, so they would have to take them anyway. I'm not sure I understand.

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You've got required training for everyone that equals 20% of a work week every week? Even OSHA/EPA doesn't require that.

I'm an investor in your company and I want you to justify the expense you're talking about that is going to eat into my profit from the investment I made. Explain to me why I shouldn't cash out my stock & investments right now.

Quality-Nation said:

I have to ask if this is your opinion, or some quantifiable data which suggests the root cause of problems is the ineffectiveness of a training “system”?

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Randy said:

You've got required training for everyone that equals 20% of a work week every week? Even OSHA/EPA doesn't require that.

I'm an investor in your company and I want you to justify the expense you're talking about that is going to eat into my profit from the investment I made. Explain to me why I shouldn't cash out my stock & investments right now.

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Ok I see what you're saying. Ideally this wouldn't be a permanent solution. It's really just to play catch up at the moment. And not every single employee would need to attend.

Quality_Goblin said:

Ok I see what you're saying. Ideally this wouldn't be a permanent solution. It's really just to play catch up at the moment. And not every single employee would need to attend.

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Now, exactly what type of training? I'll be really straight, some of what you think you need might very well be HS ( ) because it's feel good warm fuzzy stuff. Study the situation well.........Look before you leap.

Does you company require all training to be instructor led? Why not make a training matrix and let everybody do their reading and PPT viewing and video watching and take quizzes on their own time?

Requiring 8/40 hours a week to be required training seems high to me. Have you considered hiring more educated/trained employees? What changes so radically to require such training amount?

Ed Panek said:

Requiring 8/40 hours a week to be required training seems high to me. Have you considered hiring more educated/trained employees? What changes so radically to require such training amount?

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No, I think there is some misunderstanding from my initial post. It's not something that would happen every single week. It's just a dedicated day so when training does need to occur, it would take place during that day/time slots.