20/08/2026
Ever feel like your Company’s training budget is a tad like a gym membership? You pay for it every year with the best of intentions but by June, nobody is really using it and to add matters worse is that they’re using it for matters that doesn’t benefit the Company.
At LHI Consulting, our attention in 2026 is to optimize the usage of your Company’s training budget and treat Training Needs Analysis (TNA) as an added value (more like a GPS) and not just a wish list.
Upon our research online and because numbers don't lie, we have discovered a few pointers:
The Profit Boost: Research from the Association for Talent Development (ATD) shows that companies with a solid, data-driven training plan enjoy 24% higher profit margins. It’s not something out of the ordinary, instead it’s just focusing on the right competencies.
Keeping Your Best People: LinkedIn’s latest research shows 94% of employees would stay longer if they felt their company invested on their growth professionally. Otherwise, if Siti or Ahmad feel like they're stagnating, they’ll look elsewhere.
The "Hidden" Waste: Gallup estimates that without a proper annual planning, you’re losing about RM6,000 per employee every year in lost productivity and resulted a lot of "mismatch" costs.
Our approach at LHI is via The Gap Analysis, in which we align with our clients rather than simply suggesting a catalogue of courses / trainings to for our clients to attend. Our 3 steps Gap Analysis are based on: -
Where do you want the company to be by December? (Desired State)
What can your team actually do today? (Actual State)
The "Gap" in the middle is your training plan.
Let's make 2026 the year where we optimize our budget on matters that move the needle. Let’s forget about buying a band-aid before you know where the cut is.
Is your training plan based on data or just a hunch? Let’s chat.
