Published originally on HR Zone 30th March 09
HR on a budget: Outsourcing in tough times and beyond
How can your employees help grow and develop your organisation to get in shape for when we emerge from the current recession? Partnering with a managed training service provider could be the answer, says Sean Craig.
Preparation for when the economy turns for the better – and it will – should be a key part of every HR strategy. Indeed, we should regularly review our learning and development strategy to ensure it's aligned closely to the business' needs - and now is as good a time as any.
How are we supporting our managers and leaders to achieve even more from their teams? How can we free up our teams' time to concentrate on areas core to our business, yet reduce cost whilst increasing quality, flexibility and value to the business?
"We should regularly review our learning and development strategy to ensure it’s aligned closely to the business' needs."
Working with the business and leading learning initiatives to drive cost efficiencies helps to get learning and development further up the agenda as a boardroom topic; that is if you can demonstrate how you can achieve these efficiencies and deliver return on expectation.
Partnering or outsourcing can bring huge benefits. Apart from the obvious (and expected) cost efficiencies from having an 'extended' team without the fixed-cost overheads, the flexibility and improvements in quality achieved by organisations that do this for a living can far outweigh the hassle and often limited success organisations have by trying to do it all themselves.
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