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After years in manufacturing and watching people feel "trapped" by lack of education, when I achieved the glorious role of middle manager, I became the personal evangelist for the company's (whatever company it was at the time) tuition reimbursement program. Most employees hear about it but either don't understand the ease of accessibility or have never been encouraged to learn in a positive way. Try this as a positive way. "Look, it's the only benefit the company gives you they can't take back, and if they lay you off or fire you, you don't have to pay it back." Ok, so that's the hard sell, but you get the point.
This is one of those mentoring moments as a manager, as a colleague, where showing Human Resources Leadership separates a mere manager from a Person of Influence.
As someone who regularly gets Christmas cards from her now-well-educated former employees, all I can say is, "Talk about Tuition Reimbursement. It might make you feel happy in the future."
End of Commercial... back to the loyality mini-series, unless, like the Super Bowl, there's just one more advertisement.
After years in manufacturing and watching people feel "trapped" by lack of education, when I achieved the glorious role of middle manager, I became the personal evangelist for the company's (whatever company it was at the time) tuition reimbursement program. Most employees hear about it but either don't understand the ease of accessibility or have never been encouraged to learn in a positive way. Try this as a positive way. "Look, it's the only benefit the company gives you they can't take back, and if they lay you off or fire you, you don't have to pay it back." Ok, so that's the hard sell, but you get the point.
This is one of those mentoring moments as a manager, as a colleague, where showing Human Resources Leadership separates a mere manager from a Person of Influence.
As someone who regularly gets Christmas cards from her now-well-educated former employees, all I can say is, "Talk about Tuition Reimbursement. It might make you feel happy in the future."
End of Commercial... back to the loyality mini-series, unless, like the Super Bowl, there's just one more advertisement.
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