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Training on a Shoestring - April 11, 2012 MVCASTD Meeting

When
11 Apr 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location
St. Ambrose College for Professional Studies, 1950 E. 54 Street, Davenport, IA
Registered
22 registrants

Registration

Board Member – $10.00
Board members who have their National ASTD dues paid by the chapter must pay $10 for monthly meetings.
Board Member - no fee
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Corporate Member - Prepaid
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First Time Guest
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Member – $10.00
Members pay $10 per monthly meeting
Second Time Guest – $15.00
If guests are not members after their first (free) meeting, they are charged $15 thereafter.
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April 11, 2012 program:

Training on a Shoestring

in not-for-profit Organizations

The keys to training new employees inexpensively are planning, organization, and maximizing existing resources.

These keys to inexpensive trainings are the topics of our next meeting!

Unfortunately, it can be tempting for businesses to skimp on training...after all, training is costly, isn’t it? It takes up valuable resources and messes up the normal office flow. Sparing the time to train a newbie feels like a luxury you can’t afford. So you school your new employee on the fly and hope for the best.

Such tight-fisted training policies can cost you big in the long run - a half-trained employee tends to operate with half-speed efficiency. Still, you can’t afford to halt the workings of your practice for a week or two just because someone new has signed on.

Consider a middle-of-the-road approach to bring your new employee on board quickly, with an eye on long-term success. Specifically:

Create a written training manual applicable to all new employees.
Assign an existing staff person as a mentor.
Make use of existing resources as training content.

Please join us for our April meeting which will focus on how to make budgets stretch with even more tips!

We will hear from a panel of human service agency executives (medical, social service, etc.) who have had to be creative and have found better ways to train without "busting the budget!"

RSVP’s are requested no later than 3 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10 so lunch may be arranged.