The wage an employer offers may get a person to take job but it is usually not a factor in motivating that employee or increasing her or his job satisfaction. However, employee training and professional development is a way to increase an employee's sense of fullfillment and increase the chances of retaining that employee.
During tough economic times an organization's training budget is one of the first to get reduced or even eliminated. There are some free resources available on-line. Open Course Ware or OCW is provided free of charge by major universities (e.g. Harvard, Notre Dame) in a wide variety of topics. While there is still an investment of employees time, the cost of content and materials is almost eliminated. Just do a web search on Open Course Ware and look at the options. As always, read the fine print, but you should find something that your employees can use in their over all development. Let me know if you have any questions.
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