Top Training Priorities for 2003

Published in the February 2003 edition of Training Magazine.

Senior training professionals were surveyed by Training Magazine and asked to name and describe up to three of their top training priorities of 2003.  The top training priorities identified by the survey group were:

1. Softskills training (28%)  Includes leadership, management and supervisory skills training, interpersonal skills, team-building, customer service, diversity and sexual harassment.

2. Technical training (16%)  Includes operator training, technical skills training and IT.

3. Enhancing the quality of training (11%)  Includes improving instructional systems design and instructor skills, developing better curricula and performing more effective needs analysis.

4. Online learning (8.4%)  Includes off-the-shelf on-line courses, custom development of courses and Learning Management Systems.

5. Business skills (7.7%)  Includes topics such as finance and marketing, as well as lean manufacturing and quality.

6. Business alignment, business impact and ROI  (7.5%)  Includes aligning training with business strategy, culture and change, business impact of training, return on investment and measurement and evaluation of training.

7. Sales training (7.1%)  Includes product training, new product training and sales process skills.

8. Safety and compliance training (7%)  Includes safety, regulatory, compliance and security training.

9. Performance Management (4.1%)  Includes interventions in the work area, of which training may be a part of the intervention.

10. HR Related training (3.8%)  Includes orientation, employee development, succession planning, career planning and competency management.

The most common concern raised by the participants in the survey was: The difficulty in producing and delivering high quality training in tough economic times.

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