Is custom training right for you company?
1. Do you want to teach a combination of knowledge, skills, and paradigms that are unique or specific for your business? Industry? Jobs? Needs?
2. Is the training you need company confidential or likely to be a key contributor to your competitive advantage?
3. Does the training topic or major goal require a snug fit with your organization's culture, strategy, terminology, values, or expectations?
4. Do you have special learning program goals, ideas, budgets, or features that you can't find in a prepackaged program or open seminars?
5. Will your training address highly experienced participants or include advanced or specialized content?
6. Do you lack some of the necessary time, resources, or expertise inside to design and develop this training?
7. Do you or others in your company want to play an integral role in the design and development of this learning program or system?
8. Do you want to pilot and prove the effectiveness of this training within your own company before rolling it out?
9. Does your organization generally endorse the use of outside resources for training?
10. Can you proceed confidentially on the basis of a supplier's reputation and references without seeing the actual program in advance?
11. Is speedy and specific transfer of the learning to the job an important goal?
12. Do you want to begin rolling out this training in three to six months?
13. Do you assume that a customized program is probably too costly to conduct but are willing to look at several alternatives?
