Make your training succeed with these useful tips: Prioritize your areas of need. Identify those areas where an upgrading of skills would bring about a high return. Look for the high leverage positions. If your company is sales- or service-driven, a useful place to look is to those who have direct contact with your customers and the people who manage… Read more →
When training fails, it is usually because of poor planning or because the necessary conditions for success have not been secured . A large percentage of skills training such as sales, customer service, or management training fails to produce results. And it’s not because the participants were stupid, lazy, or unmotivated or that the material was irrelevant or not well… Read more →
How good would you say your company is at what it does? How high are the standards that it sets? Now be honest – do those responsible for communicating information about your organisation match those standards? Senior executives need to communicate with each other and with those above them. Do your high potentials know how senior executives think and can… Read more →
Training and development initiatives can transform organisations by providing skills and skill enhancement to your employees, increasing their efficiency and productivity. Training also leads to higher job satisfaction, which shows up in better corporate performance. Most managers recognise this. They want a competitive high performance organisation but they don’t know where to begin. There are 5 key reasons why managers don’t… Read more →
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In 2015, U.S. organizations spent approximately $70 billion on training. Smaller companies spent around $1,105 per employee on average, not taking into account the productivity lost while the employee was out. Larger companies often doubled this investment. Clearly employers understand the importance of training, and are willing to devote resources to it; however, it’s rare that these organizations see a… Read more →
Employees and their managers view training from different perspectives, and recent surveys highlight the strategies necessary for training initiatives to consistently produce a measurable impact on loyalty and productivity. Many managers believe employees are overwhelmed with current responsibilities and generally uninterested in new training activities. They say time is short, budgets are limited and there is no point to providing… Read more →