The growing importance of technical training combined with its associated time and cost requirements is causing problems for numerous network organizations. The foremost challenge is to balance available budget dollars against the requisite training requirements and their related costs.
The following best practices can assist network organizations to develop an effective training plan that achieves this objective:
- Identify technology areas the technical staff must support.
- Review key support functions against requisite skill-sets.
- Consider outside-of-the-box training solutions.
Those enterprises that utilize best practices to develop comprehensive training plans for their technical staff will find it easier to obtain the required funding and to eliminate superfluous training needs.