Quick more people to train

With more employees starting at our small company, the challenge is to do more classroom training.   It's a vicious cycle of not taking the time to complete good web based learning so that we can get out from under our tail chasing.
After reading the articles from Sam Adkins and Jay Cross, I am even more convinced of the important of good documentation and good processes.

How much time to devote to planting and how much for fire fighting...