Hire a Consultant or Develop Your Own Training?
Develop your own training if:
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1. The training objectives you want to reach are so specific to your organization
that it would be difficult to tailor any outside program to meet them.
2. Development time is not charged as a training expense internally; thus the course would appear less expensive if developed internally.
3. Your course designers do have sufficient expertise, resources and time to meet your training objectives at a satisfactory level.
4. Your management policy strongly supports internal development of training programs.
5. Your internal trainers will attribute more credibility and relevance to the program and are not viewed as “part of the problem.”
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1. The consultant has more experience meeting the training objectives than
your internal trainers.
2. Your company can't afford the risk or to take the time to “work the bugs out” of an internally developed program.
3. Using an external consultant will free up your internal staff's time for other projects they are more qualified to facilitate.
4. Cutbacks in your organization and HR department have spread your resources so thin that you don't have the resources to design and facilitate the quality program that will create the performance improvement needed during these stressful times.
5. The external consultant will contribute more credibility.