Are they adding value to your organisation, or are they simply using up your budget, time and energy with no tangible return on your investment?
Education and training programs are absolutely necessary to provide your people with the qualifications and skills to allow them to be as effective as they can be. Some training is mandatory, for example to ensure your people have the knowledge, information and competency to be safe at work. If your organisation doesn’t have a planned approach to enhancing the knowledge and skills of your workforce, you may be sending people on courses without knowing if they are having any positive effect. If training is not providing a return on the investment, you are wasting your money, time and energy, and possibly inadvertently creating a workplace disaffection as a consequence.
Organisations can often become entangled in a vicious cycle of spending good money after bad. Business owners and managers can feel compelled to provide education and training but often do so without understanding the potential gains or losses, dependent upon how well training is implemented. Unfortunately, this has a knock on effect, and employers give signals that do not enthuse workers about their ‘investment in them’. The result is workers are not actively engaged in the training process, and that itself means the likelihood that any of the learning input is absorbed is already greatly reduced.
To exacerbate the issue further, when workers have received training they often return to a workplace which is not set up for them to easily apply the learning. Supervisors and managers are often unable to provide ongoing support to newly trained workers. Ironically one the main causes of this is a lack of training received by the managers and supervisors in skills related to leadership, coaching and mentoring. As a result very little of the training is retained or applied and therefore the value of the training is greatly diminished.
Unfortunately, on face value, all of this can reinforce the belief that training isn’t worth the ‘investment’. But, it doesn’t have to be that way. Coachio Group Business Brillianteering™ Programs help ensure that your organisation, managers, supervisors, workers, systems and processes are all aligned so that your organisation can gain the assurance that your training dollar is invested well and will provide a return.
To learn more about Business Brillianteering™ send us an email at info@coachiogroup.com or call and talk to one of our team on 0800 300011.