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Give People Credit

I just participated in a group meeting at my company where a group of about 7 people discussed how to improve training at our company. I came up with a lot of ideas, that the leader recorded and will distribute to management.

I'm thinking about these ideas and feeling that I won't get credit for them. The leader who will send out the email will. I realized how it's important to give people credit for what they do.

Some of my ideas were:

Make training part of your review and manager's review

Have tools available that make it easy to record and publish training programs

Change the way reviews are done that disincentive training co-workers because you're graded on a curve where only 20% can get the highest rating

Encourage people with skills to offer training in their expertise

Hire a consultant to come up with a method to improve training

Query the workers as to what the training needs are

Pilot project using the tools and methods

Have a monthly lunch to announce new training that's available, emails don't work

Allocate time per week for training like Google's 20% time

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