Re: Hiring training facilities.

>
> The biggest trouble usually is actually that we are on-site.
> Many managers expect their workers to do their daily job
> more-or-less even while they are in class. That means many times
> students have to read their e-mail and respond to them.
> Many times they are even taken out from the class.
> Once they are out for 2-3 hours usually they cannot
> come back as they cannot follow the class any more.
> Once I had a class where we started with 21 ppl and after
> 5 days we ended with 4. But at least those 4 were satisfied.
>


I've had this problem almost every time I do training on-site. If  
it's onsite, they seem to not take their investment seriously, and  
wander in and out. I had a training where, of 18 people registered,  
only one person was actually there for the entire time of the class,  
with the rest of them wandering in and out, having 2-3 hour meetings,  
leaving early, arriving late, and so on. And that one person wasn't  
exactly the most interested student. The folks that really wanted to  
learn the material ended up being there less than half the time.
>
> If we could ensure that people who are only familiar with Windows  
> would be
> able to work on Windows and similarly people who are not familiar  
> with vi and
> emacs would have at least nedit installed on Unix/Linux.
> That would be a huge step in reducing frustration in the class.

The training that I do tends to be *nix specific (While I've done  
Perl training, mostly I'm an Apache trainer) and so I tend to spend a  
significant portion of every class with that one or two people who  
are completely new to *nix.

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