I spent one day last week with a good friend and her husband.  She is a stay-at-home mom of 3 who is battling stage 4 cancer and he is in a management position with an nationaly known company.  We discussed many topics while she recieved her chemo.  Her husband was able to express some of the frustration he feels at his company for the training programs they provide their employees.  Although it was clear by his presence at the hospital that his company is flexible on their work hours, he stressed that training was another issue. This family is in a desperate situation, literaly life and death, but the husband has to go away for training.  Across the country.  Hundreds of mile from his sick wife and their children.  If he wants to keep his job he has to go.  If he wants to keep his health insurance he has to go.  If he wants to be with his wife in what maybe her last few days he has to stay. This is a terrible situation.  But most of us have some sort of "situation".  We can't just up and fly across the country for a training without something or someone suffering the consequences.  If we can manage to get away, we most likely have left a major part of our attention on that "situation".    On-site training or online learning is the solution for this problem.  Training that occurs during the normal work hours and on-site will recieve a much better response from the employee and in turn will produce much better results.