Training
Motivates staff, achieves business success
It's getting harder to find and retain skilled people, and it's going to get
harder still. Your business may already be affected by the shortage of
skilled experienced people.
Companies that take a proactive approach to keeping, promoting and training their competent mature workers will ride the labour supply changes much better than those who take a 'business as usual' approach.
Training will play an important role in attracting and keeping mature workers confident and active in tomorrow's workforce.
Retraining will also be a useful tool for the future. Retraining a competent older person may be a better option than trying to find new recruits with the skills you need.
Similarly, retraining may be an option when the person you want to hire has a less-than-perfect match in the skills you need.
Businesses that keep training efforts up for all workers - not just young workers, will be in a much stronger position than those that put training on the back burner.
The following points about training may be food for thought.
- Training can help employees to be knowledgeable and flexible in their approach to work. This is particularly valuable when the business has to fine tune its product and services to suit changes in the market.
- Training can help save business costs. Greater expertise can lead to significantly less time and material wastage.
- Customers can receive improved levels of quality and service through greater levels of knowledge and skill.
- Retraining is often more efficient than redundancy. In fact, the better skilled the people are, the less frequently redundancy is needed.
- Providing job enrichment opportunities helps to 'bullet proof' a business, especially in a time of business challenge.
Did you know that..
- training motivates staff?
- the longer you can hold on to your staff, the better your investment in training gets?
- training providers can provide accredited training at your work level?
- financial assistance is often available for training at the workplace?
- having the skills in your older staff recognised by a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) may help you to manage a skills shortage?
- RTOs may be able to assess the skills on the job and arrange for formal qualifications to be achieved. (This could be a very efficient way to gain new trade qualifications in your workers)
To find out more about the benefits of training CLICK HERE
http://www.training.com.au/anta/cda/page/generalcontent/0,,a1534_b3179_f-business-benefits,00.html
http://www.training.com.au/anta/cda/page/generalcontent/0,,a1534_b3182_f-employee-benefits,00.html
