Being a small-business entrepreneur, you possibly receive tons of emails about future conferences on employee development or training seminars. Have you ever pondered on them? Have you ever given a thought on the importance of employee training and development? If not, this is the right time to sit and take a firm decision if you wish to see your company grow into a bigger name in the market. Of course, employee training and development deserves your consideration and time.
When you invest in employee development, you are actually investing in your business’s future. It would be an investment for short-term and long-term business prospect. Providing employee training and development can provide a valuable return to your business in both the short-term and long-term.
Do not forget to include employee training and development in your 2018 business priority list. Anyways, still, entrepreneurs have doubts on the potential of employee development through training. Some of the concerns are:
1. Training an employee would improve his skills and make him ask for more money to stay.
In reality, it would be worse if you do not train your employees and they stay with your company. No employer would ever want their employees to be dumb and stay with the company. No company can own employees, some will stay and some will go. If you invest in development programs, it makes your employees more valuable. In fact, employees start relying on you and there is an increased possibility that stays for a long time experiencing the training and development culture in your small yet ‘employee-benefit-centric’ company.
2. Training and Development eat up quality time when productivity is a priority.
It is better to invest in employee training and development than to cry over the temporary loss of productivity. In fact, a trained employee gives the double of what is expected of him. By not investing time on employees’ development program, you might achieve the desired productivity level, but what about productivity, which will be above the decided targets. The latter will be a good choice!
3. Who will take the responsibility to train the employees?
The best employees know how to improve their skills and you will always see them keen to involve in activities, which improve their skills. However, most employees are too much occupied with work, their personal life, and hobbies. They do not find the time to improve their skills through training and development programs by their organization. Therefore, who will take the responsibility for the same? It is your company’s duty to ensure that you are conducting training on a regular basis. Your management is the sole responsible body for such initiatives and training management.
4. Training is a thrown activity on the heads of employees and they do not like it.
Modern days’ surveys reveal that employees are more likely to leave their organization where employee training and development does not exist. Different training programs challenge the employees and explore the new potentials. Training not only offers new skill sets to the employees, but it also amplifies team building, positive communication, respecting team leaders, setting a goal, challenging self-learning and much more.
It’s time to make necessary changes to your small business where employee training and development is in your business-priority-list!
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