In a message dated 6/8/00 5:39:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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> Does anyone have any suggestion? At what level does the Museum participate,
>  100% if related to current position? Do you require a minium number of
years
>  work before you offer this benefit, or require continued service after for
a
>  period of time?

IMHO - training is invaluable and should be available to all, regardless of
time of service at the museum. For example, if your curators wanted to go to
a seminar on preservation techniques that could be directly applied to the
collection they work on, why would you want to keep someone from that unless
you knew they were gonig to be leaving soon and not using their training at
your museum?

The way I've seen training handled is a couple of ways. One is to give people
a fixed training budget per year. This could be per department or per person.
I think anything under $1000 is an insult as one can barely take a Word
workshop for that amount of money let alone attend a professional conference.

The other way is to handle it on a case by case basis or let the supervisors
handle training requests. If people are asking for reasonable training that
relates to their jobs and there is money, let them do it but track it in case
things start to get out of hand. I think people are smart and won't take
advantage of it if you make it clear that they should only ask for things
that are relevant to their jobs and keep an eye out for training they'd like
to attend.

Deb

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