Re: Educational areas to pursue

[GeneK <gene -at- genek -dot- com>]

As a manager, I have always authorized reimbursement or PO payment for any 
class that I send
an employee to because I think it will enhance that person's value to me 
(and as I said previously,
when I "suggest" to an employee of mine that they would benefit from taking 
a particular class, it's
"sending them"), and have them schedule the class during office hours with 
the proviso that they
need to plan their class time for upcoming slow times in their project 
schedules because they still
need to meet all their deadlines (the exception to this is if I'm sending 
them for a specific project
and the need is urgent).  If they prefer to take evening or weekend classes 
for their convenience,
that's up to them, but they're salaried so there's no OT.  If an employee 
comes to me with a class
they'd like to take, if it isn't immediately obvious to me that the class 
will enhance their value to me,
I ask them how they think it relates to their work.  I'm pretty liberal 
about accepting their answers
(if they've taken any time time at all to think of a way the class relates, 
chances are I'll take it), and
the scheduling and timing is on the same basis as classes I send them 
to.  All of the above applies
to direct employees only, I've never been with a company that would spring 
for any kind of training
for contractors except for mandated internal safety orientations.

Gene Kim-Eng



At 07:13 PM 2/25/2003 +0100, Jan Henning wrote: