Any investment you put into your talent could go to your competitor when people move on. That fear of lost investment often creates a reluctance to train your own employees.

“You get into this paradox of ‘I can’t find the talent I’m looking for, yet I don’t want to risk investing training into that talent to develop them because they might end up going to our competitor,’” explained  Mark Bennett, Product strategy director for Oracle Fusion Network at Work and Oracle Fusion Profile management. Bennett recommends some techniques for risk mitigation in article by David Spark.

Read more and watch video interview with Bennett.