Why do you think companies should train their employees?

Training is a great tool to develop the skills of the employees toward long-term goals and promotes fulfilling jobs eventually

It motivates and gives moral boost

It helps them to work effectively so as to run your business even better

It promotes job satisfaction and business success

It gives them an edge in this highly competitive wolrd, making them effective, motivated and dynamic

 

 

Training the employees ensures their growth and saves cost to company as they may be used for multi purpose and can be internally promoted to the higher levels where the cost of hiring is high. It also helps in retention of employees and works as motivation for them.

Companies should train their employees to ensure quality production or services. Furthermore, companies should continue to train their employees to have continuous growth and improvement within the company.

Hello Lina,

-- Training is considered as a lont-term investment, so companies should look at it as a profit-generating system.

-- A trained employee is 4 time effective that an un-trained one.

-- Trained employee helps organizations increasing their profit by doing things right from first time, commit less mistakes.

-- From "KM" (Knowledge Management) perspective trained employees help spread tought knowledge among colleagues. This would help in turning organization into a "LEARNING" one.

This is a great question Lina. The other day I watched a video on Facebook in which a stewardess came running down in the kitchen to ask the chef if they served 'Egg-less Omelet" in their restaurant? Now the already busy chef was annoyed at the question and demonstrated her by putting some salt and green coriander in a plate, thats how an egg-less omelet would look like. Again the poor waitress picked up the plate and started to serve it to the guest, however, this made the chef all the more pissed off. The sous-chef listening to the conversation asked the waitress to go back and ask the guest "whether or not he would like to have an omelet prepared only with egg whites". After watching the video, I wondered how important it is to have a properly trained staff, especially the front line one. The guests or customers aren't trained to ask questions so that it is easy for the staff serving them to understand. It works the other way round; the staff should be aptly and appropriately trained to answer the questions, however, they are formed. 

Training is a very integral part of any company, because it improves the confidence and credibility of employees towards the company and also the employees will be able to give better service to customers and this will deliver in better service and goodwill. 

Training adds flexibility and efficiency. You can cross-train employees to be capable in more than one aspect of the business. Teach them to be competent in sales, customer service, administration and operations. This will help keep them interested and will be enormously helpful to you when setting schedules or filling in for absences. Cross-training also fosters team spirit, as employees appreciate the challenges faced by co-worker.Training is a recruiting tool. Today's young workers want more than a paycheque. They are geared toward seeking employment that allows them to learn new skills. You are more likely to attract and keep good employees if you can offer development opportunities. 

 

Training is important because the employees is the biggest asset of the company.  It can make or break a company.

1. Increase productivity

If your employees know what they’re doing and are properly trained, productivity will increase. The manufacturing industries have caught on to this gem a long time ago. The most successful Electrical Contracting businesses train their staff to achieve improved quality, provide better service, reduced snagging and ultimately make a profit.

2. Reduce employee turnover

Investing in your employees will let them know you are interested in developing their skills. As a result they tend to stay longer and contribute more to your business. Recruiting replacement staff is expensive, time consuming and risky. It’s much better to train and retain your best people in the first place. Technical, management and administrative training courses can be as good a pay rise during difficult times.

3. Decrease need for supervision

Untrained and under-qualified staff can drain your management resources and distract your best people from urgent and important tasks. How many times have your Managers said that they can’t do something because they are still "keeping an eye" on an employee? Free up managers time and effort by training employees to do the work themselves. ETT Tip: Most electrical contractors are under resourced in the area of inspection and testing. Avoid becoming over reliant on one person by training at least one other alternative member of your team to an accredited standard.

4. Increase ability to employ new technologies

Keeping up to date with technology is essential. Ensuring that your employees are current with technology will not only enable them to do their job better but also ensures that your Company is at the forefront when it comes to the competition. ETT Tip: Evidence of training in the use of new technology is an excellent way to differentiate your business from the others in PQQ submissions.

5. Increase safety to decrease work-related injury/illness

Training in health and safety will reduce the amount of work based injuries which occur. This protects not only the employee, but also the employer when it comes to possible corporate manslaughter charges. ETT Tip: Let your insurance broker know that you have evidence of accredited H&S training. This will help the broker negotiate a better quotation with underwriters on your behalf.

6. Maintain employee credentials/certifications

Maintaining credentials is cheaper than allowing them to expire and starting again. Ensure that the hard won qualifications of your employees remain up to date with regular training. ETT Tip: Up to date accredited electrical qualifications always score highly in client PQQ evaluation. Ask ETT for free help to develop a staff training plan.

7. Help employees meet new responsibilities

Who would allow a 17 year old to drive a MEWP without any instruction? Then why do some Companies promote employees to new positions without giving them the necessary skills to perform their new role effectively? Training for newly promoted employees is beneficial to both the Company and the employee in terms of productivity, effectiveness and efficiency.

In my opinion, employee training is one of the major tasks every company should always consider, and to be at the top of it's stategic goals. This is because without giving this priority to employee training, a company can easly step back and lose effort, time and productivity. In prief, employee training is a porfitable guaranteed investment for any company which is lokking for a higher porductivity and successful growth.  

Employees need training for the following reasons:

1. Increase the level of productivity - An employee's performance is determined from how competent he or she is from the training program. Training is heavily invested by organizations in order to boost the level of productivity from the human resource in the realization of the company's objectives and goals

2. Credibility worth of an employee - The training system helps in monitoring and gauging how reliable an employee is to the company and how advanced the skills set have progressed before and after the enrollment to training as a performer or non-performer

3. Boosts morale and motivates the employee - Training enables the employee to feel self confident in delivering any task presented to him or her based to the level of training received. It also gives employees a room to tap into their talents and get creative in becoming more effective and efficient to the company

4. Strategic goals - With a tremendous rise of competition today's market economy and dynamics of technologies the company needs to equip their staff with the current level of training to cope and survive. The managers get compelled to introduce the most trending level of training to the staff personnel to meet the long term goals

5. Meeting job requirements - With training the employer is certain that there will be a job satisfaction in the execution of job duties by the employees. This shows that the company has the right person for the right job which duly expresses the basic purpose of training the employees