The employers in our sample spent a great deal of time and money training employees for their jobs. In fact, the data suggest that it takes somewhere between three months and a year for most of their employees to be fully functioning in their jobs. Given the limited budgets that most small and growing firms have, it is important to focus on cost-effective training programs. Most of the businesses sampled are already utilizing cost effective methods of training: On-the-job training and peer training. When choosing the trainer it is important for managers to make sure that the appropriate behaviors (i.e., no bad habits) are being trained. Thus, it is important for the managers and trainers to focus on the key behaviors that help improve performance on the job.