In a recent blog post on ChiefHRO.com, Jeff Neal addresses the increased attention to employee training needs in the President’s proposed 2015 budget.
Jeff Neal is a senior vice president for ICF International, and formerly served in the Obama Administration as chief human capital officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and chief human resources officer for the Defense Logistics Agency. The ChiefHRO.com blog posts federal government HR and management news and insight.
According to Neal, “For far too long federal agencies have looked to the training budget as one of the first places to cut (after travel) when budgets are tight. Training cuts are among the most shortsighted of the budget cutting options. They trade small savings today for a lack of capability tomorrow.…The renewed emphasis on training in the 2015 budget is a good sign that the dark times for employee training may be coming to an end.”
However, Neal reminds readers that for this emphasis on training to succeed, there needs to be more sharing on what works in federal employee training. Unfortunately, one key shortcoming in many training programs is evaluation of their effectiveness.” If more training programs were accompanied by proper evaluations, we would learn far more about ‘what works’ and what does not. That would lead to far better use of training dollars and better outcomes,” writes Neal.
Read the complete blog post at http://chiefhro.com/2014/03/04/finally-a-new-emphasis-on-training.
