Managing Skills and Upgrading the Skills of Employees

Recommendations

Managing skills and upgrading the skills of employees is an integral part of any organisation strategy and is also essential for maintain competitive edge.  Training leads to better workplace skills and a long term job security for employees and for employers it is like maintaining a competitive edge from its rivals and aligning organisation goals with individual goals. It also enhance the stability, security and adds value to the company. It also shows how the company is committed to its employee’s career.

Effective training implementation requires  specific methods like on-the-job training, informal training, lectures, videoconferencing, support systems, computer based training.  Followings are the recommendation that can be incorporated to make training effective:

Training as an investment : Training is a long term investment that need to be understood within the organisation and stretched. Behavioral change among the employees is very essential to make investment in training worthwhile.

Learning Culture : Emphasis must be laid within the organisation regarding the importance of training for enhancing the skill sets of employees and to be competitive. This also means involving top management who are enthusiastic and emphasis the need of training among employees.

Target needs and clarify goals : Identify he specific skills set that need to be improved and timeframe in which it needs to be achieved. Also the training goals for the employees must be clarified and aligned with organisation goals.

Make it a continuous and an evaluative process : Training should be a comprehensive one , not just limited to a specific set of people . It should include as many worker as possible .

A metric in terms of profitability or profit should be defined to measure the effectiveness of the investment in training.