Mar 17, 2016
Anonymous employee
Epitec Response
10yBuilding, Training and Developing teams to meet Delivery objectives is a critical departmental goal for Epitec's Delivery teams. Epitec engaged Visualize, the leading provider of the ValueSelling Framework, to provide training that would generate more opportunities for our sales team and for the company. We were disappointed that a few Sales team members did not see the value in this training. The investment to Epitec was more than $7500 per trainee, not including travel expenses. Epitec requested that the Sales team sign an agreement for less than half the cost of the training ($3,000) to be recouped only if they "voluntarily left the company". Then, the employee would agree to pay back the pro-rated amount of training dollars. For example it they resigned 6 months after the training was provided, then the employee would pay back 1/2 the training or 1/2 of $3000 = $1500. Epitec needed to know which Sales team members were invested in the training. The entire amount was paid by Epitec and only a portion would be based on retention of the employee. Epitec invests in its employees and believes in continuous training - it is cultural to the organization. We are a learning organization and training is core to learning and continuous improvement.