December 19, 2017
Should you be Outsourcing your Training Needs?
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- If your company has very specific and idiosyncratic needs, know how, structures, systems, culture, objectives and strategies that need to be supported through company-specific training;
- If the internal expertise in providing training is adequately developed and your company has put much effort and resources in order to develop this function in-house;
- If your company seeks to facilitate corporate action learning through training;
- When internal teachers act as role models who lead by example and enforce the corporate culture and develop the future leaders;
- When training is seen as a way to develop the managers. The practice of having internal managers to provide training to subordinates or colleagues can prove an effective way for executive self-development of the trainer him/herself; and
- When training is used as a tool of the overall change management effort. Change management champions and change agents may find more control and more success over internal change efforts as a result of developing and leading change in the form of training and development.
- When your company seeks to buy in new ideas, scarce expertise, and achieve pluralism and an ‘out of the box’ thinking through outsourcing; and
- If cost and flexibility considerations determine to a large extent the training process.
