Training Challenges Survey Series - Part 2 Released

This post was written by Jacob McNulty

TrainingOutsourcing.com and Expertus have released the results of the the second part in their Training Challenges Survey Series.

In it the authors list the following highlights:

• While a vast majority of companies (82%) are now involved in global training, most training dollars are still spent on training delivered within home countries. Almost half of responding companies spend less than 10% of their annual training budgets on training delivered outside of home countries. In 37% of responding companies, employees outside of home countries receive less training than those employees located within home countries.

• 62% of companies managed global training through a centralized learning organization. However, 42% of respondents had training staff located in
U.S. and non-U.S. countries.

• English is by far the most commonly used language for training (95%). Almost 40% of companies use Spanish, 30% use French, 25% use Chinese, and 25% use German.

• In 58% of companies, all employees have access to e-learning.

• The top challenges identified by respondents are budget constraints (48%), content localization and translation (40%), effective learning delivery (39%), and maximization of e-learning (34%).

• Training delivery (36%), content development (35%), and technical services (26%) are the most frequently outsourced services.

The first bullet was a surprise - that 82% of those surveyed are involved in global training  but almost half of those spend less than 10% of their training budget on those outside the home country.  I’ve taken enough statistics in my life to not read too much into numbers - I’m just curious what lay behind that data.

The rest is good baseline data for the learning and development field - I look forward to the rest of the series.

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