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Hi All, I would love to hear your thoughts on motivating busy adults to take part in company-offered training and/or returning to school to further education and enhance skills. The company I work for has only 3% of the employee population participating in tuition reimbursement.

What are your thoughts? Thanks! Toni
Sarah H (UW Stout) Hi Toni, Our company has a similar issue - the tuition reimbursement program is highly under utilized. One way that we have increased participation is by doing some of the leg work for the employee. What we ended up doing was creating a page on our company intranet and providing common areas that people go back to school for. We found local college...See More
Feb 16, 2013
Stephanie K We have college representatives come in to the building and offer information sessions. We also have salary increases related to degree completion (money talks!).

2/14/13, Toni wrote: > Hi All, > I would love to hear your thoughts on motivating busy > adults to take part in company-offered training and/or > returning to school...See More
Feb 17, 2013
Maybe they're too busy just doing their jobs Try giving them five or ten days off per year, with full pay, to participate in all this extra stuff.

Also, nobody likes fluff courses. Make sure all the courses you offer lead to university credit, and can be used toward some kind of advanced degree.

On 2/14/13, Toni wrote: > Hi All, > I would love to hear your thoughts on ...See More
Feb 19, 2013
Sara On 2/14/13, Toni wrote: > Hi All, > I would love to hear your thoughts on motivating busy > adults to take part in company-offered training and/or > returning to school to further education and enhance > skills. The company I work for has only 3% of the employee > population participating in tuition reimbursement. > > What a...See More
Feb 21, 2013


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