Changing How We Train Employees
It goes without saying that the more complex the job at hand is, the more energy (but not necessarily money) you need to invest in order to ensure you’ll have some results at the end of the day.
The trouble is, many employers nowadays can’t really be bothered with training rookies, and consider the whole procedure an unimportant step in the process of hiring new people.
To avoid this waste of potential and of money, the best thing to do is to, for starters, regarding employee training as a great opportunity to show your employees the ropes of the business first hand, instead just throwing a bunch of PowerPoint slides at them willy-nilly.
In this article, we’ll propose to you a couple of solutions to change the way you train employees at your company.
Right then, without further ado, here’s the deal.
How to Stop Wasting Time and Money on Shoddy Employee Training (and see some results, as well.)
Managers and Higher Positions Need Training Too
While top positions in most companies who mean to succeed are typically occupied by competent folks with a talent for leadership and a bold innovative spirit, even the biggest geniuses in the business need to learn more.
Indeed, it’s when you start thinking that you’re great and perfect with no room for betterment that your downfall will inevitably begin.
Therefore, one of the best things you can do, as a manager or an occupant of some other leading position, is to take up some training yourself and impose the same fate to the other managers in your company. If you think you might need help with organizing the whole thing, you can check out some training and assessment resources – these folks will know everything there is to know about it.
Incorporate Safety and Fitness as a Part of Training
Disturbingly, many managers and other managerial figures working at various IT companies don’t really care about the physical fitness of their employees. Perhaps they think that sitting at a desk for eight hours is an easy job, so why bother investing in health & safety training, right?
Well, this way of thinking could have made sense some 20 years ago when computers and cubicles were still a relatively new thing. The same goes for other industries, by the way, not just computer-based sedentary jobs.
Bottom line here is, ensuring your employees are healthy and in a top form regardless of their particular position in your company is essential for their well-being, at the first place, but also for the quality of the work they’re doing for you.
Conduct Training Individually
Swinging back to the notion of half-hearted PowerPoint presentations, let’s just reiterate once again that this stuff is not good.
A group of 10 to 20 people all sitting in the same room trying to follow what’s going on can work in some learning environments, but when it comes to acquainting a new worker with a novel way of performing a task, there are certainly better ways to do it.
Individual training, for example, springs to mind as probably the best way to teach someone a new skill. Optimally, an experienced instructor should show directly to the trainee the process of doing something, so that the employee can replicate it and thus acquire the knowledge first hand.
This can not only be a great course of action for actually teaching your employees crucial new skills, but can also build trust and foster collegiality between workers at various levels!
All things considered, whether you’re a boxer or an intern at an IT company, training is essential for becoming better at what you’re doing. To make this happen for your business, you don’t need tons of money, but you will definitely need commitment and some patience.