As a manager, do you prefer individual training for your staff or group training?

I prefer group training.
It gives participants the chance to exchange ideas and reflect on their experience.
It also helps when role-playing.
Individual training is useful, if your colleague has serious issues or if she/he needs individual training due to time restrictions.

Individual Training and Team Training are two different approaches of training.
Both have different purposes and have their own merits and demerits.
I prefer a hybrid model which is a blend of individual and team approaches.
Individual training is aimed at developing specific skills of an individual and most of the time this type of training need is identified during the employee performance evaluation process.
Individual training is suitable for developing soft skills or specialized skills.
Team training is aimed at preparing a team for a new project or to provide a company-wide or department-wide awareness or to provide basic knowledge on certain subjects.
The need is identified at corporate level or at department level during the business planning process.
It is suitable for providing knowledge based training like training on new processes and procedures.
When you want to develop team building/working skill it is better to adopt a blend of both approaches.
While team training will help in developing relationship among team members and to energize.

To my mind both of these approaches have merits, individual training can help boost an individual's confidence, experience and effectiveness as an individual which would still benefit the team as a whole. This is also part of the persons personal development which is important to the person moral and self worth.Team training is particularly useful to gain coherence build trust and understanding, it can help the weaker  (perhaps less experienced) and is particularly useful for all round team building and on the job training. It can help provide a structured and succinct message/goal.

 

 

 

Group training as a matter of fact would be more effective considering the energy, ideas and question’s each individual would add, plus it cost less than individual training, however it all depends on how big is the group and what is the objective of the training.

Individual training would be a very good idea when we talk about developing specific skills on specific person, considering personality and interaction style of the individuals.

 

Training objective is dependent on purpose and type of training. The answer is based on objective of training.

Its all depands on the nature and requirements of the task.
Both are useful but a good manager is always flexible

I would recommend group training to make the training fun and give opportunity to the participant to get broader view by listening to other trainees view point.
In group discussion many new insights are gained by all and it gives participants chance to guage their approach towrads the subject vs others, which is healthy sign always.

I prefer group training. It gives participants the chance to exchange ideas and reflect on their experience. It also helps when role-playing. 

and Better know each other in a team considering one family