Employee Training Development: Building a New Identity

Typical areas you might want to seek training for your team:

• Work Preparedness
• Business Savvy
• Customer service
• Holistic view of how the business works
• Team dynamics
• Communication

You need team members and employees who are good at what they do. You might be thinking that every business has unique needs, but essentially every business is the same. You must train and develop your employees, while still maintaining a productive workplace.

For Small Businesses On-the-job Skill Development Is Where It's At

Many small businesses must rethink the employer/employee relationship if you're hoping to attract and retain talented team members.

You must establish a relationship based on mutual benefit, by developing your team members' skills and allowing them an increasing sense of autonomy and purpose as they acquire them.

You Must Allow Your Team To Grow Professionally

The days of an employee staying put in one job for 40 years are gone. Your small business cannot afford to have one-dimensional employees. Allowing team members to develop their knowledge and skills helps them remain competitive in the job market (which could mean higher wages), but it also keeps your team competitive as well.

Estimates show that U.S. businesses spend nearly $110 billion dollars yearly on employee training development. For large corporations how much of this money is wasted?

Don't Waste Your Training Buck: Make Training "Brain Compatible"

Holding your team accountable for taking action toward the organizational goals and systematically tracking the results is the only predictable method for training and developing your employees.

The brain needs information to be presented in a specific manner for maximum impact. To really get the most bang for your employee training development buck, you must develop or find the training systems that present "brain compatible" training.

Brain compatible often means simulating "real world," hands on situations. If you want your team to learn and develop your team must be presented with situations that have meaning to them and the work they do. Feedback should be immediate.

This is the way the brain learns best.

Obviously, this goes for newly hired team members as well as those who have had narrow job responsibilities and are looking to get retrained in current strategic business skills.

This is the most effective way to turn any team into a group of learning magnets and build a new identity for your team.