{"id":6815,"date":"2018-12-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/when-companies-should-invest-in-training-their-employees-%c2%97-and-when-they-shouldn%c2%92t\/"},"modified":"2019-09-29T18:43:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T23:43:25","slug":"when-companies-should-invest-in-training-their-employees-and-when-they-shouldnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/when-companies-should-invest-in-training-their-employees-and-when-they-shouldnt\/","title":{"rendered":"When Companies Should Invest in Training Their Employees &#8212; and When They Shouldn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employee training programs can be highly effective, but only if they are implemented in alignment with strategic and strategic initiatives.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/10\/when-companies-should-invest-in-training-their-employees-and-when-they-shouldnt\">When Companies Should Invest in Training Their Employees &#8211; and When They Shouldn&#8217;t<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Executive Summary According to one industry report, U.S. companies spent over $90 billion dollars on training and development activities in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 32.5 %. While many experts emphasize the importance of employee development &#8211; critics point to a painful lack of results from these investments.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employee training programs can be highly effective, but only if they are implemented in alignment with strategic and strategic initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hbr.org\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2018\/10\/oct18_26_dv413014.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-6815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-engagement","9":"tag-leadership"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7882,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions\/7882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}