It’s common for modern businesses to offer training to employees, involving a range of courses from basic courses that will help your team effectively use your technology, to programs that could be worth as much as a degree to teach your team new skills. In fact, some modern companies, such as Google, offer training programs designed to teach employees relevant skills that they prefer to hiring employees already possessing degrees from colleges and universities since the training is more applied and less focused on general skills such as communication and other liberal arts. We could argue over the value of such programs compared with more traditional educational opportunities, and as a marketing professor with 25 years of teaching experience at various universities, I would strongly make that case.
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Regardless of your feelings about such training programs, practically every business offers some type of training as part of their onboarding process or continual training designed for existing employees. For instance, companies may require training in compliance such as sexual harassment and, in today’s world, compliance with CDC regulations in Covid protocols. when you develop new products, you often have to train salespeople and others in your organization to effectively market those products.
It doesn’t matter what type of training you offer or the timing of training, training is sometimes expensive. Since you don’t want to waste money on ineffective training methods or products, it makes sense to develop a clear strategy on how to offer training to employees and how to most efficiently use your training dollars. How exactly are you supposed to do this as a business owner or manager, though? Let’s find out.
Developing effective training programs
Giving them time
Many companies expect their employees to take part in their training during their free time, especially in the case of compliance training. While this might prove successful for some, those forced to use their valuable personal time to complete the training program rarely get the best results from their training, as they rush through the training with the singular goal of passing the test at the end.
Instead, it makes a lot more sense to give your team time during their workday to handle their learning, giving you the chance to watch over them, while also ensuring that they don’t feel as though they have to rush to get through it. It makes sense to pay people for taking training classes, especially when they only need the information to successfully perform their job.
Providing additional materials
Courses come in loads of shapes and sizes, but they usually involve some materials to help employees learn the material and proficiency tests to ensure employees retained the required information. Often training programs include the basic information employees…
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