Hi All,

I'd welcome some feedback on practices in other companies.

We provide quite a lot of training for out staff, soft skills and technical skills along with other training benefits such as,  we'll refund the purchase of books if they request them as part of their development.

Where relevant and as part of an employees devleopment, we are happy to sponsor some training requests albeit we may not be requiring them to carry out the training, it may be more personal development in their roles. For these we implement training agreements, unless the cost was very low and we'd not implement them.

The training agreements last for 12 months after training completion and in fairness, most training that has taken place would never last more than 3 months at the most.

I'd be particularly interested whether any companies have seen signficant benefits or indeed drawbacks by not having these in place.

Many thanks

Clare