Great training benchmarks

The Bersin 2011 benchmark study has come out and I encourage you to read it.

High-impact Learning Organizations commit more time and financial resources but fewer staff to achieve results. Organizations that are more efficient, effective and aligned with the business spend $1,021 per learner on training - significantly more than the national average. They also deliver more training - 20 hours per learner annually. These organizations deliver their services with 4.3 L&D staff per 1,000 learners - a significantly lower ratio than the U.S. average of 5.2. How do they achieve all this? By utilizing staff effectively, pushing more delivery to local resources, and building informal learning environments to develop and support learners. Most importantly, these organizations outsource more learning services - allocating 20 percent of their training budgets to external providers, versus a U.S. average of 14 percent.