Skills development needs to earn its place on the business
When did your business last expect a return on its training spend? A real, measurable and commercial return that you would require from any other investment in the business? For most companies, the honest answer is never. Skills development is often managed as a cost rather than a measured investment. The result is that training is often not measured properly, and companies don’t realise it isn’t delivering value. However, the metric that matters is time-to-productivity – how rapidly a trained person adapts to your working environment and starts contributing at the level you need. A candidate who has spent months inside a real office, working on a real technology stack, mentored through real delivery, arrives ready to work. Someone hired the traditional way is still finding their feet three months into the role. Time to productivity Most training is measured by how many people attended, how many seats were filled and how many certificates were handed out. These metrics don’...
