Employee Development: Is Upskilling or Reskilling your team important?
Developing your team is essential to sustainable business growth and success. All organisations will go through the lengthy processes to review and access resumes to recruit and onboard qualified and suitable employees – but this is simply not enough. However, most organisations stop right there and disregard the importance of providing opportunities for their employees to develop and nurture their fullest potentials. In the recent years and especially in times of the current pandemic, the world of work has been greatly disrupted. Throughout these disruptions and major transitions, we have emerged to a conclusion that shaping the future of work and impacting your business development greatly relies on the upskilling and reskilling of your employees.
What is Employee Development all about?
Employee development, also known as, employee training involves soft-skill and technical programs that provides opportunities to the employees on learning precise skills and gaining essential knowledge to improve their productivity at work and performance. Employee development is no doubt a process whereby the directors or managers work together with the employees to create a development plan, to identify areas where require enhancement or further development that greatly aligns to the organisation’s goals. Additionally, this development serves as a formal template to the employees on what they would require and how they can go about to acquire them.
An ever-changing world would mean that professional development will need to be constantly pursued and prioritized, no matter the cost. Organisations and employers play a major role in supporting this process and in fact, up to 54% of respondents from GetSmarter’s “The Future of Work is here” report agree that upskilling or reskilling employees is the joint responsibility of the organization and the employees themselves.
4 Reasons why Employee Development is essential
Positive Employee Retention
This whole hiring and retention of employees can be a constant challenge for the organization and employers. However, one way to retain your employees can be providing them with career development opportunities. Most development programmes offer a permanent employment contract established with the employee’s sense of value within the organization, thus fostering loyalty between the employee and the organization, and ultimately increasing employee retention. Having the organization to invest in the employees’ professional development allows these individuals to have a stronger appetite for upskilling or reskilling, which leads to higher productivity and better performance at work.
Training Future Leaders
Acquiring employees with a sense of leadership may start from the initial acquisition, or Human Resources (HR) professionals who identify and select current employees as potential managerial candidates. Having established leadership development programmes can ensure that the organization is always considering future organizational goals and succession planning by preparing these promotable employees to move forward and guide others in their positive footsteps.
Employee Empowerment
In the recent research shows that leaders who inspire, ignite employees’ imaginations, and mobilize them with a compelling vision within the organization are generally more impactful than directors or managers who simply focus on the bottom line, especially in the operations line. Doubts? Google it.
Increased Workplace Engagement
Regular and consistent development can initiate and keep employees motivated to always be keen and hyped to learn more than ever. While frequent training programmes will also establish regular re-evaluation of the employees, skills, and processes within the organization, assessing the current skills and abilities will likewise enable directors and managers to strategically plan targeted development programmes that can consider any potential skills gap between the employees and the organization.
Why is there a need for Customized Training?
Again, in the modern world today, with addition to the current pandemic, industries are ever-changing and because of this, the importance of employee development is greatly highlighted to ensure that employees are always ready and in full force for whatever challenges the organization may potentially face.
In view of this, customized trainings have been known to be effective in a way that it enhances job skills and at the same time, helps employees to develop further in their professional careers.
5 Obvious ways your organization can benefit from Customized Trainings
Individualized Instruction
Customized trainings, like its term itself, focus directly on a particular skillset or needs for an organization. Once your management has decided on the organisation’s needs and priority, the training programme can be further contextualized and becomes a perfect match for your organization.
As Paula Nurrenbern, a resource development specialist once said, “Customized trainings provide the participant with individual tools and techniques necessary to be successful.”
Advancing Technology
Technologies are always upgrading and advancing. In the modern world especially, it is essential to have training periodically to always keep employees on top of their game. To remain competitive, organisations must keep up with advancing technologies, and of course, the employees must stay on top of needed skills.
Improve Company Culture
Having customized trainings can easily improve your employees’ productivity and morale, thus transform the attitude, and create a better work environment for everyone. Your employees will naturally feel more inclined to do their best and be more productive, thus eventually having a better work performance.
By allowing your employees to partake in customized trainings can lead them to a major transformation for the organization as they naturally feel better about themselves and appreciate the opportunity the organization has provided. Survey has shown that up to 75% of the employees who feel appreciated are more likely to put themselves more into their position and the responsibilities they have at the workplace.
Growth in your Employee Development
To be fair, there is nothing wrong with going the old ways. But in the modern days now, learning new ways to complete a task can make major improvements in your daily procedures. Investing more time and money in your employees will allow them to gain deeper knowledge and be prepared to take on new positions and responsibilities within the organization without shielding away from them.
Provide relevant trainings to further support a culture of constant development in the industry
Regardless of whether the organization has an existing, functioning training programme, employee development will never be effective if the work environment refuses to accommodate and encourage continuous learning. It is essential for an organization to support a culture of constant development in the employees to recognize overall industry change and provide the relevant trainings to overcome these never-ending challenges.
The benefits and value of such training and development can act as a domino effect; leaders feel competent and can efficiently influence employees’ performance (skilled and engaged employees), thus resulting in a higher job satisfaction and commitment. Workforce improvement and engagement can likewise benefit the organisation’s overall profits and attitude. Most importantly, it aligns with the future workplace skills despite the type of trainings and developments involved as it greatly supports the organisation’s business objectives and can be delivered in an innovative way that mirrors the digital transformation of businesses in the modern world.
In addition…..
If you choose a customized training, you will also benefit from the following for your employee development but not limited to,
- Detailed assessment of the learning and development needs of your employees
- Access to subject-matter experts who will work with you to create on-target instruction
- Experienced, effective Trainers whose delivery is professional and engaging
- Flexibility in scheduling
- Choice of location and training modes – either at your selected on-site premises or virtual LIVE stream via Zoom/MS Teams
- Assistance in developing short-term and long-term plans for enhancing the skills of employees to increase productivity, and consequently, drive revenue growth for your organization
In Aventis, we offer pre-training needs assessment to identify gaps, no-obligation consultation regarding your organization’s training plans, development of custom training programmes with our experienced faculty of Trainers, and a follow-up assessment and evaluation post-training service.
All courses can be further contextualized to your organisation’s needs which can be delivered face-to-face @ your selected premises, Aventis’s premises, or Virtual LIVE Stream via Zoom/MS Teams. Visit our page on Customized Trainings to find out more on what our extended services can offer you.
If long training duration is a concern for you, you may consider having this training done via our Lunch and Learn from a nominal fee of SGD 2,000 per session for up to 300 excited participants, which are typically between 60 to 120 minutes long. You may opt to have a continuous run of the same training topic in a series of sessions to optimize your learning. (Fun Fact: Just because the term is Lunch and Learn, doesn’t mean you have to have it delivered during the lunch hours!)
Want to learn at your own pace with no one urging or rushing you behind? You may also consider our self-paced e-learning courses from a fee of SGD 300 per course, ranging from soft-skill to technical topics, any that are to your interest!
Enquire with us now to find out more about our other in-demand training courses and see how else we can support you in your training needs.
