Corporate Training: A Guide for Your Journey to Best-practice Processes

Corporate training is the most direct way organizations can ensure its work force is capable of meeting overarching strategic goals. APQC's Corporate Training: A Guide for Your Journey to Best-practice Processes will help both organizations just establishing a formal training function and those looking to energize existing operations. With relevant findings from 10 APQC benchmarking studies and useful examples from 20 best-practice organizations, this Passport to Success book can be used as a guide to best-practice processes for corporate trainers by detailing: - corporate training trends; - creating a strategy and gaining support from senior-level executives; - developing and communicating learning opportunities; - building relationships across the organization; - creating a supportive learning environment; - outlining expectations of students; - evaluating corporate training efforts and remaining relevant; and - evolving and expanding your program. APQC's Passport to Success series consist of easy-to-use, low-priced resource guides that help readers understand and implement programs and processes in a variety of functional areas. These books are intended to guide readers on what can be a difficult journey through somewhat foreign territory. By developing the abilities of their work force to make quick, creative decisions that align with their companies' strategic values, organizations can strengthen their market positions, tackle current problems, and prepare for future challenges.