Rethinking training: advantage of knowledge
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- Published: Monday, 20 April 2015 15:07
- Written by ASIA Miner News
Contributed by David Hegarty, Cadre general manager
A LARGE mining company throws away tens of millions of dollars a year on training that doesn’t work, applying inefficient and outdated teaching methods to new generation training problems. By better understanding how miners learn, what they need from training to perform and applying the right knowledge management system across your business processes, mining companies can make training more efficient and stop letting as much as 90% of their training budget go to waste. In fact, looking inwards and rethinking training could well be the next unique competitive advantage.
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