DorjeM

From :  https://flic.kr/p/inW8ZS I ran a team of application developers at a New Zealand University for over a year. One of the aspects of that role which I really enjoyed was working with each team member on their personal development. With the people I was working with we found that individual mentoring was very effective. Traditionally organisations have training budgets. The training budget is often used to send technical folks on a one, two or more day training course. In some cases the money is used to send people to a vendor or practitioner focused conference. In my experience the training courses are given by either the technically gifted or those new to the field. Neither tend to be good trainers or teachers. In my own experience and from the results I saw within my team there is a better way. We agreed as a group that where possible we would forgo the poor quality training and the questionable conferences and use the money to get a specialist / consultant in...