If you you are a manager and have knowledge for training do you prefer internal or external training for your team?

Internal. The internal trainer knows much more activity and procedures. He is also knowledgeable about the company policy

depends on what kind of training you want to give to you staff. Say, if this is with regards to something that people inside the company has more knowledge of, then internal would do. But if the need arises that you team would need furhter knowledge and expertise, it will be beneficial for an external training like for a SAP training, or any training that needs more level of expertise. This helps to uplift the company profile to market that you have qualified staff who has these widely known external trainings thus making the company more competitive and will attract clients. And also uplift the employee's knowledge ad growth as well thus gives you both advantage- for the company and also the staff

I agree with Mr Miguel. Its good to have both internal and external training. Internal training helps when the trainer is training new staff but an external training is good as the trainer can bring the staff up to date on the current status of things. In example, new technology, new procedures or new requirement by the governing bodies. An external trainer is also good as their job is solely to teach and train, where else an internal trainer is almost always some manager who have to multi task in his role.

I think that there are benefits of both internal and external training. 

Training that is specific to a position or specific to duties that are exclusive to the company or organization would best be covered internally, led by someone who is already a part of the company and knows the intricacies of the position and section/department/company.

However, there are many very beneficial position specific training courses held externally that would offer loads of benefits to individual employees or small groups. 

I believe its depends on to whome you are going to provide training or for what purpose, For New employees: Its better to go for internal training by some one experienced person in your organisationFor Experience employees: If no is in your organisation to provide then you don't have any other option to hire a professional trainer with market experience to provide you a trainingFor new business: Hire a trainer to provide a training for number of staff which saves your lots of money. If possible engage him for a one project too to get professional experience in that business too

There are benefits for both. If the Internal training is being conducted because of cost and / or schedule constraints, then that may have to be the choice of the moment. If again, there are Subject Matter Experts in the market for the specified area of training and if cost is not an constraint, then I would go for External Training.

I would prefer internal training for my team  so that they should be well aware of company policy and how to do their job more effectively.

Only knowledge is not sufficient to give trainings lot of other things are required like communication skills, training material, feed back material, trainners repo in team etc if these all are upto mark then better to go with Internal Training, if anything is missing then go by external.

The other benifits with internal trainner is his awareness about skill level of team & he can lead by relevent examples.

I think that a mix of both, an external one for the "general terms" and another internal to adapt the general methods to the specific used in the company, then you can get the benefits of both options.

It is apparent that the training starts internally first, then externally , the technique behind this is the basic understanding of the main concept, after that a practical project solutiion for what they had gained from the internal knowledge.

I find internal training of great use more so when it is Both Cognitive and Behavioral way of Training which includes classroom training,simulations,workshops,brainstorming sessions and on the job training.