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Subject:FW: Question on Professional development policy? From:"Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA> To:"Techwr-L (E-mail)" <TECHWR-L -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:20:29 -0500
Marc Santacroce wondered <<Does anyone's organization have a Professional
Growth Policy or Professional Growth Guidelines, for use when making
decisions about spending company money to pay for membership dues in
professional organizations or professional conference/seminar registration
fees?>>
FERIC will pay for one membership per employee without question (two
memberships if you're at a supervisory level), and an additional membership
if you can make a compelling case for it. We also have provincial guidelines
for the minimum % of our budget that we have to spend on training and
professional development, so it's usually easy to make a case for getting
training of various sorts. But some training is also given as a reward for
good performance: the better the work you do, the more likely they are to
let you fly off to attend a conference of some sort.
Hofstadter's Law: The time and effort required to complete a project are
always more than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's
Law.
