According to The State of the IT Skills Gap published by CompTIA the answer is YES. Not only is there a skills gap, but it is impacting productivity.<\/p>\n
This makes us ask 2 questions:\u00a0 (1) How did we get here; and (2) What do we do about it?<\/p>\n
How Did We Get Here?<\/strong><\/p>\n In answer to how did we get here the answer is pretty simple.\u00a0 When times get tough one of the first things to go is the training budget.\u00a0 Seems that somehow executives forget that it takes employees armed with the best technical skills to keep their organizations competitive.\u00a0 Stopping training is like going to sleep when winter sets in.\u00a0 Executives believe that if they cut as much as possible they will live until Spring.\u00a0 However, in their case, when Spring comes nothing will be in bloom because they didn’t plant the training seeds of success.<\/p>\n What Can We Do About It?<\/strong><\/p>\n In answer to what do we do about it?\u00a0 The answer may seem simple, but it is not.\u00a0 You can’t just say train, train, train.\u00a0 Organizations and individuals need to do a skills gap analysis to determine where they are and where they need to be and then identify the many ways they can get there.\u00a0 The skills gap analysis does not have to be complicated.\u00a0 In fact, we offer a FREE 10 Step Guide to Training Success<\/a> that helps individuals and organizations to help them in this process.\u00a0 If you would like a copy you can sign up for a Free Account or send us an email request<\/a> and we will be happy to send it out to you.<\/p>\n There are many great ways to get up to speed quickly and they each depend on a number of factors.\u00a0 In the coming week we will be posting information on classroom training, online training and self-paced training.\u00a0 If you have any questions you would like me to answer, send me an email at marianne@gogotraining.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to The State of the IT Skills Gap published by CompTIA the answer is YES. Not only is there a skills gap, but it is impacting productivity. This makes us ask 2 questions:\u00a0 (1) How did we get here; and (2) What do we do about it? How Did We Get Here? In answer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106,124,125,119,44],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ittraining","tag-selfpacedtrianing","tag-skills","tag-training","tag-comptia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}