Why training is crucial in business—Abacus Digital ™
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Let’s get straight to the point, we all know that managing your own business as well as employees is very tough. You, as the owner, partner, or leader, want to make sure that your team is up-to-date with the following steps you want to take, as well as being sure that they have the right capacities to follow along. Corporate training will help you and your employees to improve personal skill sets as well as learn while working.
- Why a company should not ignore training
- How training will help your business
- How to find the correct training and provider
- Useful corporate training links
Why a company should not ignore training
Put yourself in the shoes of your employee: You have been an excellent employee and were offered a promotion to a manager position. Of course, you know that you are good in your area of work and have a good set of expertise in your scope of work, and you are pleased about the opportunity provided to you. However, you have never managed a team, so how can you meet the expectations of your boss when you do not know how to even get started or what the exact guidelines are?
As an employee, you do want your company to take action and provide you with help and guidance along the way, as well as show you how they want team management to be. For example, you cannot turn against the company’s culture and decide to start bringing back hierarchy into your team when the company’s internal value is agile working. It would instantly backfire, you could lose your new position as a manager, as well as your initial position in the company. Exciting but annoying, right?
Now the other way around, you are the boss and one of your employees has been a crucial member of the team, naturally, you want to give them more responsibility and offer them promotion as a team manager. You know that this employee is an expert in his field, but you also know that this would be his first time in a manager role. Even though you have high expectations of him, you are not really sure if he can meet these expectations.
From both sides, there is doubt, you as the boss want to make sure company policies are respected and that the management style of your employees stays in line with your values. However, how can you make sure that your employees understand managerial practices and how to align them with your company’s working style?
How training will help your business
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It would be time-consuming as well as a bit too obsessive, to watch your employee every step to figure out his capacities, strong points, areas of interest as well as weaknesses. It would make your employee think that you as their boss, partner, or manager would not have enough trust in them, even though that might not be the case.
That’s where training and development come in. You can provide your employees with training to equip your team as well as train them, while they also receive certifications that can be useful for their own personal skills and career. You show them that their knowledge is important to you as well as their work, by giving them the opportunity to learn more and to have a certificate of completing a specific course that they have for life.
Now you might wonder how you could provide training to your co-workers and employees. If you do not have a specific department, that will analyze the needs of your workers or even provide specific pieces of training to those who need it, it would be though, right?
However, you have no need to worry! Nowadays, everything is digitalized: meetings, communication, and even training. You can find thousands of different pieces of training online that fit your company’s requirements or even an employee’s individual needs.
How to find the correct training and provider
So you want to promote your employee to a managing position, but you want to make sure that they know how to manage a team in an agile way? No worries! There are thousands of platforms that offer training for corporate needs: Be it for a whole team, or only for one employee, even you could participate in these pieces of training, if you want to learn more skills or refresh your knowledge about managerial practices. There are thousands of platforms such as Udemy, Coursera, and Skillshop, even LinkedIn provides courses. Abacus is also offering trainings targeting only corporate needs.
The trick to finding your training, as well as the training provider, is to figure out what specific training is useful for your company, position, or employee. Before, we talked about managing skills, but you could also sign up for training in Marketing, Scrum, Product Management, Leadership, Coaching, and the list goes on. So for you to find the correct training, you first need to take an internal look into the problem you want to solve with training.
Useful corporate training links
Find below a list of some of our trainings for specific courses with certifications:
You haven’t found the training you’re looking for on the list above? Then click here to browse through all our courses offered by Abacus.
Photo by Tyler Franta on Unsplash Let’s get straight to the point, we all know that managing your own business as well as employees is very tough. You, as the owner, partner, or leader, want to make sure that your team is up-to-date with the following steps you want to take, as well as being…
Photo by Tyler Franta on Unsplash Let’s get straight to the point, we all know that managing your own business as well as employees is very tough. You, as the owner, partner, or leader, want to make sure that your team is up-to-date with the following steps you want to take, as well as being…