و والتنمية و الاحتفاظ استراتيجية التدريب

المملكة المتحدة. خمس استراتيجيات للحفاظ على الموظفين أعلى واحد من أكبر التحديات التي تواجه أصحاب العمل اليوم هو إيجاد والحفاظ على الموظفين جيدة. توضح هذه المقالة بعض استراتيجيات فعالة للحفاظ على الموظفين التي من شأنها أن تساعدك على الاحتفاظ الموظفين الجيدين وتطوير قوة عاملة مستقرة. الخطوة الأولى هي فهم سبب ترك الموظفين. والثاني هو تنفيذ استراتيجيات الاحتفاظ بالموظفين للحصول عليها للبقاء. خمسة أسباب رئيسية وراء ترك الموظفين لا يشعرون بالرضا هنا. ويمكن أن يشمل ذلك أي عدد من القضايا المتعلقة بثقافة الشركات وبيئة العمل المادية. إنهم لن يغيبوني إذا ذهبت. كثير من الناس لا يشعرون 39t شخصيا. عندما يشعر الناس لا تشعر 39t تشارك أو تقدير، كل المال في العالم يمكن 39t عقد لهم. لا أحصل على الدعم الذي أحتاجه لإنجاز عملي. الناس يريدون القيام بعمل جيد يريدون التفوق. وفي الوقت نفسه، يشعر معظم كما فاز رئيسه فاز t39 لهم القيام بعمل جيد. عندما تتجاوز الإحباط عتبة الموظف 39، فإنها تغادر. عدم توفر فرص للتقدم. إن التقدم لا يعني بالضرورة الترويج. في كثير من الأحيان، فهذا يعني النمو الشخصي والمهني. الناس يريدون أن يكونوا أفضل غدا مما هم عليه اليوم. ويشكل النمو الشخصي دافعا قويا جدا للقوى العاملة اليوم، خاصة مع الجيل الأصغر سنا. الناس الذين يخرجون من الكلية غالبا ما يحددون التدريب كمعيار أساسي لاختيار أول شركة لهم. الشركات التي هزت إدارات التدريب لديها الكثير من اللحاق بالركب للقيام به من أجل جذب الناس الطيبين. عدم كفاية تعويضات الموظفين. الناس يريدون تعويضا عادلا، ولكن خلافا لمعظم المديرين 39 المعتقدات المال نادرا ما يأتي أولا عند البت في البقاء أو الذهاب. وهناك نسبة معينة من الناس سوف مطاردة دائما المزيد من الدخل، ولكن الغالبية العظمى من العمال ينظرون إلى أسباب غير نقدية أولا. العديد من المديرين التنفيذيين لا تزال تتشبث فكرة عفا عليها الزمن أن الناس يذهبون للذهب، أن الرواتب تملي جميع قرارات التوظيف. ولكن بالنسبة للجزء الأكبر، الناس يريدون فرص للنمو والتعلم، للتقدم في حياتهم المهنية والعمل على مشاريع صعبة ومثيرة للاهتمام. انهم يريدون أن يكون الاعتراف والتقدير لجهودهم. إنهم يريدون أن يشعروا بأنهم جزء من شيء يضيف قيمة إلى مجتمعهم. خمس اسرتاتيجيات الستبقاء املوظفني 1. بيئة العمل إن اسرتاتيجيات االحتفاظ باملوظفني األولية تتعلق بإنشاء وصيانة مكان العمل الذي يجذب ويحتفظ ويغذي األشخاص الطيبين. وهذا يشمل مجموعة من القضايا، بدءا من تطوير مهمة الشركات والثقافة ونظام القيم للإصرار على بيئة عمل آمنة ووضع سياسات وإجراءات التشغيل واضحة ومنطقية ومتسقة. وتعالج استراتيجيات الاحتفاظ بالموظفين البيئية ثلاثة جوانب أساسية من مكان العمل: أساس الأخلاقيات والقيم التي تستند إليها المنظمة السياسات التي تفسر تلك القيم وترجمتها إلى إجراءات يومية، والبيئة المادية التي يعمل فيها الناس. الهدف العام هو جعل شركتك مكانا حيث الناس يريدون أن يأتي إلى العمل. وتشمل عينة من استراتيجيات الحفاظ على الموظفين البيئية ما يلي: توضيح مهمتكم. إنشاء عبارة القيم. التواصل مشاعر إيجابية. الاستمرار في التركيز على العملاء. كن عادلة ونزيهة. زراعة شعور الأسرة. تعزيز النزاهة. لا تتسامح مع الأداء دون المستوى. الإصرار على سلامة مكان العمل. خفض عدد الاجتماعات. جعل العمل متعة. وتتعلق استراتيجيات الاحتفاظ بالموظفين هذه بطريقة أو بأخرى بثقافة الشركات. ومع ذلك، فإن إحدى القضايا البيئية تميل إلى أن تبرز فوق البقية. أكثر من أي وقت مضى، الموظفين يريدون ثقافة الانفتاح وتبادل المعلومات. انهم يريدون أن يعرفوا أين الشركة تسير وما سيبدو في المستقبل. كيف تفعل الشركة ماليا أين أنها تقف في السوق قبل كل شيء، ويصر الموظفين على معرفة كيف تناسب وظائف محددة في مخطط كبير من الأشياء وما يمكن القيام به لمساعدة المنظمة للوصول إلى حيث تريد أن تذهب. إذا كنت تعمل في بيئة مفتوحة حيث يشارك المديرون المعلومات، يمكنك أن تتوقع انخفاض معدلات دوران. ولتقييم مستوى انفتاح ثقافتك 39، طرح أسئلة مثل: هل يعرف موظفونا كيف تقوم الشركة بعملها في مجالات رئيسية مثل المبيعات، والمالية، والاستراتيجية، والتسويق هل نروج لإدارة الكتب المفتوحة (أو أي شيء يقترب منها)، أو نفعل نحن نبقي المعلومات سرية عن كثب بين فريق الإدارة العليا هل الموظفين فهم رؤيتنا ورسالتنا والقيم هل لدينا بيان القيم الذي يوضح ويدعم ثقافة الانفتاح نحن نقدم ملاحظات الأداء على أساس منتظم أو فقط في وقت الاستعراض السنوي هل نشجع الأفراد والإدارات على تبادل المعلومات مع بعضهم البعض خذ نبض شعبك بشكل منتظم. من وقت لآخر، إحضار طرف ثالث خارجي للحصول على نظرة أكثر موضوعية لكيفية شعورك حقا. معرفة ما إذا كانوا يعرفون حقا الرؤية والرسالة والقيم. في الوقت نفسه، إعطاء الموظفين الكثير من المعلومات حول كيفية أداء الشركة وأين هو ذاهب. عندما يشتري الناس قيم شركتك المعلنة بشكل واضح ويحتفظون بالمعلومات التي يحتاجونها لإنجاز المهمة، فإنهم يميلون إلى التمسك بها. 2. استراتيجيات علاقات الموظفين ترتبط استراتيجيات علاقات الموظفين بكيفية تعاملك مع أشخاصك وكيفية تعاملهم مع بعضهم البعض. وضع استراتيجيات فعالة علاقة الموظفين تبدأ بثلاث خطوات أساسية: إعطاء المديرين والمشرفين الكثير من التدريب العلاقة. الاعتراف بأن (في جميع الشركات باستثناء أصغر) الناس يعملون لمشرفهم، وليس لك. قد يقول شيك أجرهم شركة شيز، ولكن علاقة عملهم الأساسية هي مع المشرف عليهم. إذا كان المشرفون لديهم المعرفة والتدريب والحساسية للعمل بشكل فعال مع الناس على المستوى الفردي، you39ll ربما الحصول على الترابط تحتاج إلى الاحتفاظ الموظفين. اسأل الموظفين لماذا يعملون لك. عندما تفعل، يحدث شيئين. واحد، والموظفين تعزز لنفسها لماذا يعملون بالنسبة لك. اثنين، يمكنك الحصول على فهم أفضل لما يجذب الناس لشركتك. يمكنك بعد ذلك استخدام تلك المعلومات لتجنيد موظفين جدد، قائلا: Here39s لماذا الناس يعملون بالنسبة لنا. إذا كنت تقدر هذه الأشياء، ربما يجب عليك أن تعمل بالنسبة لنا أيضا. بعد أن تحصل على المعلومات حول سبب عمل الناس لك، اسأل: ماذا يمكننا أن نفعل لجعل الأمور أفضل من ذلك حول هنا تفعل ذلك بطريقة إيجابية بحيث لا تتحول تصبح جلسة قبضة، ثم الاستماع عن كثب إلى ما يقوله موظفيك. من هذه المحادثات سوف تأتي العديد من الأفكار الجيدة، ليس فقط لتحسين ظروف موظفيك ولكن لجميع جوانب عملك. بعض استراتيجيات علاقات الموظفين العليا: استخدم أدوات تقييم نمط السلوك، مثل مايرز-بريغز أو ديسك، لمساعدة الناس على فهم أنفسهم بشكل أفضل وبعضهم البعض والتواصل بشكل أكثر فعالية. مساعدة الموظفين على تحديد أهداف الحياة والحصول على التركيز على حيث يريدون الذهاب. ثم مساعدتهم لمعرفة كيف تتطابق أهدافهم مع أهداف الشركة، وأنها يمكن أن تحقق أهدافهم من خلال البقاء مع الشركة. إذا كان الناس يعتقدون أنها يمكن أن تحقق أهدافهم وأهدافهم من خلال العمل في المؤسسة الخاصة بك، وسوف نفكر مرتين قبل الذهاب إلى مكان آخر للعمل. كلما كان ذلك ممكنا، الحصول على الأسرة المعنية: كتابة رسالة من الثناء وإرسال نسخة إلى الأسرة. إرسال رسالة إلى العائلة الشكر لهم لدعم الموظف الخاص بك. لديك منزل مفتوح. دعوة العائلات للقيام بجولة لمعرفة ما يفعل سبوسبارنت. عقد الأنشطة الاجتماعية مثل نزهات الأسرة، والأحزاب عطلة، والمناسبات الخاصة. احتفال أعياد الميلاد. خذ الناس لتناول العشاء للاحتفال بإنجاز. عقد احتفالات عامة عندما تصل الشركة إلى المعالم الرئيسية. استراتيجيات علاقات الموظفين الأخرى التي تؤثر على الاحتفاظ بالموظفين: بناء علاقات التوجيه مع الناس لزيادة علاقاتهم العاطفية مع المنظمة. كن حازما ونزيها. تجنب الموظفين التخمين الثاني. احتفال طول العمر. شجع الفكاهة في مكان العمل. التركيز على بناء الثقة بالنفس. التمسك لشعبك. اعترف استراتيجيا ومتعمدا. في نهاية المطاف، استراتيجيات علاقة الموظفين تساعد على بناء الشعور بالأسرة. في الأسر، والناس لديهم الصراع والخلافات ولكنهم يتعلمون كيفية العمل بها. انهم العصا معا من خلال الأوقات الجيدة والسيئة ودعم كل نمو 39s. الأسر لديها كل واحد لواحد واحد لجميع العقلية. It39s أصعب بكثير لمغادرة الأسرة من أن تترك في مكان ما تذهب للتو إلى العمل. 3. إستراتيجيات دعم الموظفين تتضمن استراتيجيات دعم الموظفين إعطاء الناس الأدوات والمعدات اللازمة لإنجاز المهمة. عندما يشعر الناس لديهم ما يحتاجون إليه لأداء، وزيادة الرضا الوظيفي بشكل كبير. جميع استراتيجيات دعم الموظفين تنبع من ثلاثة مبادئ أساسية: الناس يريدون التفوق. الناس بحاجة إلى موارد كافية لإنجاز هذه المهمة. الناس بحاجة إلى الدعم المعنوي والعقلي من أنت والمديرين الخاص بك. استراتيجيات دعم الموظفين تبدأ مع الخاص بك والمديرين الخاص بك 39 المواقف. هل ترى الموظفين مجرد تروس في عجلة القيادة، أو كموارد قيمة التي تجعل الشركة تذهب هل تتوقع أداء عالية أو الرداءة منهم يعتقدون أن الناس يريدون التفوق (يفعلون) بدلا من أداء في الحد الأدنى من المستويات سوف تقودك لعلاج لهم بطريقة أكثر إيجابية بكثير. المعلومات هي مجال رئيسي آخر في استراتيجيات دعم الموظفين. لمزيد من المعلومات التي تعطي الناس حول ما يقومون به، ما هي الشركة عن ولماذا تفعل أشياء بالطريقة التي تقوم بها، وأكثر قيمة يصبح. مساعدة الناس على فهم كل الفروق الدقيقة في وظائفهم. لماذا هو ما يفعلونه مهما للشركة ما هي توقعات العميل السماح الناس يعرفون ما يجري. منحهم أرقام المبيعات وبعض من البيانات المالية. يجب عليك عدم الكشف عن الرواتب وغيرها من المعلومات الحساسة، ولكن السماح لهم رؤية قياسات الأداء، وخاصة لأنها تؤثر على وظائفهم. وتشمل استراتیجیات دعم الموظفین الأخرى ما یلي: منح الناس عملا مثمرا. تقديم التحديات. إزالة العقبات والحواجز لإنجاز هذه المهمة. ضبط الوظائف لتناسب نقاط القوة والقدرات والمواهب. الحفاظ على الوعود التي تقوم بها. إنشاء نظم اتصال فعالة. تحديد المسؤوليات الوظيفية ومسؤولياتها بوضوح. شجع الناس على اتخاذ المبادرة. تشجيع الإبداع والإبداع والاعتراف به ومكافأته. تجنب الإدارة الجزئية. تقليل متطلبات الإبلاغ. عندما يكون ذلك ممكنا، وتوفير مرونة الوظيفة. 4. استراتيجيات نمو الموظفين تتعامل استراتيجيات نمو الموظفين مع النمو الشخصي والمهني. الموظفين الجيدين يريدون تطوير معارف ومهارات جديدة من أجل تحسين قيمتها في السوق وتعزيز احترام الذات الخاصة بهم. ومع ذلك، don39t مجرد رمي التعليم والتدريب في شعبك بطريقة عشوائية. بدلا من ذلك، تنظيم وهيكل التدريب الخاص بك بحيث يكون من المنطقي للشركة والأفراد الذين يعملون بالنسبة لك. يستغرق وقتا طويلا لاستكشاف موظفيك 39 الاحتياجات المختلفة وأفضل طريقة لتلبية تلك الاحتياجات. هناك العديد من الطرق لمساعدة شعبك مع نمو الشخصية التي لا تحدث فرقا في حياتهم، ولكن ربطها بشكل أوثق مع المنظمة. ويمكن أن يشمل التدريب والتعليم ما يلي: مناهج داخلية للتدريب على المهارات وتطويرها خارج الحلقات الدراسية وحلقات العمل التي تدفع للكلية والتعليم المستمر كدفد والبودكاست والتعلم عبر الإنترنت عبر التدريب وجود الموظفين وورش العمل الحالية في مجالات خبرتهم جلب الخبراء الخارجيين لتثقيف الموظفين حول الموضوعات التي تؤثر على حياتهم الشخصية. تقدم النقطة األخيرة أعاله فرصة حقيقية ألرباب العمل للتمييز عن أنفسهم ولها تأثير كبير على االحتفاظ بالموظفين. على سبيل المثال، معظم الناس يمتلكون سيارة. ومع ذلك، كم من يعرف حقا كيف لشراء التأمين على السيارات إعداد الغداء حقيبة البني الذي يعلم الناس في الداخل والخارج من التأمين على السيارات وكيفية الحصول على أفضل شراء. عندما تقدم هذه الأنواع من فرص التعلم، فإنه يميزك عن أصحاب العمل الآخرين ويظهر أنك تهتم حقا موظفيك. IT39s شيء واحد لتوفير التدريب الذي يساعدهم على القيام بعمل أفضل لأن شركتك تستفيد منه. هذا شيء آخر تماما لتقديم التعليم حول كيف يمكن للموظفين تحسين حياتهم. انهم don39t نتوقع ذلك. فإنه يدل على أن تهتم بهم كأشخاص، وليس فقط كما العمال الذين يمكن أن تجعل المال بالنسبة لك. وتشمل استراتيجيات أخرى لدعم الموظفين الموصى بها: إنشاء ثقافة التعلم. إنشاء خطط التعلم الفردية. تشجيع الناس على الانضمام إلى الجمعيات المهنية والتجارية. الاستثمار في التخطيط الوظيفي. تشغيل برنامج التوجيه المؤسسي. توفير حوافز للتعلم. الاستفادة من التعلم عبر الإنترنت. .5 استراتیجیات تعویض الموظفین تنبع استراتیجیات تعویض الموظفین الفعالة من مبدأ أساسي واحد: المال وحده لن یحتفظ بأغلب الموظفین. في الأيام الخوالي، الشركات دفعت الناس أساسا لوقتهم. اليوم، المزيد والمزيد من الشركات تدفع للأداء في كل موقف، وليس فقط المبيعات. للاحتفاظ بالموظفين، يجب أن تتضمن خطة التعويض الخاصة بك هذا الاتجاه. تأتي خطط الدفع مقابل الأداء بمجموعة متنوعة من الأشكال والأحجام، ولكنها تنطوي جميعها على نشاطين أساسيين: تحديد الوظيفة والتحقق من الأداء مقابل التوقعات. عندما يتجاوز الناس التوقعات، منحهم مكافأة. فإنه يساعد على وضع الخطة في وقت مبكر حتى يتسنى للموظفين فهم توقعاتك ومعرفة ما عليهم القيام به للحصول على المكافأة. ولكن تأكد من أن تقوم على أهداف الربح محددة مسبقا، بحيث كنت don39t تدفع إذا كانت الشركة don39t كسب المال. إذا كنت لا تقدم نوعا من الحوافز أو خطة الدفع مقابل الأداء، فإن you39re تضع شركتك في عيب فظيع. يستخدم أرباب العمل الذكيون مجموعة متنوعة من استراتيجيات تعويض الموظفين) النقدية (والنقدية) غير النقدية (التي تجعل من الصعب على الشركات األخرى سرقة أهلها بعيدا. وهي تشمل: مناقشة إجمالي تعويضات الموظفين (الراتب، والمزايا، والعلاوات، والتدريب، وما إلى ذلك). أنظمة مكافأة التصميم لتحفيز مشاركة الموظفين. استخدام مزايا الموظفين المرنة للرد على القوى العاملة المتغيرة. عرض خيارات الأسهم. عرض إجازة، التفرغ وغيرها من أشكال تعويضات الموظفين غير المالية. توفير رعاية الأطفال ورعاية المسنين. تقديم برامج مساعدة الموظفين. ترتيب للحصول على تخفيضات على المشتريات. ترتيب الخدمات المهنية. صندوق عضوية نادي اللياقة البدنية. نضع في اعتبارنا أن تعويض الموظف يشكل قطعة واحدة فقط من اللغز. إذا كانت جميع القطع الأخرى في البيئة، والعلاقات، ودعم ونمو استراتيجيات don39t تناسب معا في واحد المتشابكة كلها، كنت won39t تكون قادرة على دفع الناس ما يكفي للعمل بالنسبة لك. في سوق اليوم 39، الموظفين لديهم السيطرة. يقولون: You39re محظوظة أن يكون لي العمل بالنسبة لك. إذا كنت don39t نعتقد أن ومعالجتها وفقا لذلك، وسوف تجد بسرعة صاحب عمل آخر الذي سوف. هذا 39 لماذا تحتاج إلى أن يكون كل خمسة من هذه الاستراتيجيات الاحتفاظ بالموظفين في المكان. يهدف محتوى هذه المقالة إلى تقديم دليل عام للموضوع. ينصح بأخذ استشارة الاخصائيين في مثل ظروفك. لطباعة هذه المقالة، كل ما تحتاجه هو أن تكون مسجلة على موندق. انقر لتسجيل الدخول كمستخدم موجود أو تسجيل حتى تتمكن من طباعة هذه المادة. تدريب الموظفين للدافع والاحتفاظ تحديث 25 أغسطس 2016 عامل رئيسي واحد في تحفيز الموظفين والاحتفاظ بهم هو فرصة الموظفين يرغبون في مواصلة النمو وتطوير العمل والوظيفي تعزيز مهارات. في الواقع، هذه الفرصة للموظفين لمواصلة النمو والتطور من خلال التدريب هي واحدة من أهم العوامل في تحفيز الموظفين. هناك نوعان من الأسرار حول ما يريده الموظفون من فرص التدريب، ومع ذلك. وبالإضافة إلى ذلك، لا توجد فرص التدريب فقط في فصول التدريب الخارجي والحلقات الدراسية. هذه الأفكار تؤكد ما يريده الموظفون في فرص التدريب والتطوير. كما أنها تعبر عن فرصتك لخلق كرس، وزيادة الموظفين الذين سوف تستفيد كل من عملك وأنفسهم من خلال فرص التدريب المقدمة. خيارات تدريب الموظفين: محتوى الوظيفة والمسؤوليات يمكنك التأثير على التدريب والتطوير بشكل كبير من خلال المسؤوليات في وظيفة الموظفين الحالية. توسيع المهمة لتشمل مسؤوليات جديدة، مستوى أعلى. إعادة تعيين المسؤوليات التي لا يحب الموظف أو التي هي روتينية. توفير المزيد من السلطة للموظف لإدارة الذات واتخاذ القرارات. دعوة الموظف للمساهمة في أكثر أهمية، قسم أو على نطاق الشركة القرارات والتخطيط. توفير المزيد من الوصول إلى اجتماعات مهمة ومرغوبة. تقديم المزيد من المعلومات عن طريق تضمين الموظف على قوائم بريدية محددة، في إحاطات الشركة، وفي ثقتكم. توفير المزيد من الفرص لتحديد الأهداف والأولويات والقياسات. تعيين موظفي إعداد التقارير لقيادته أو إشرافه. تعيين الموظف لرئاسة المشاريع أو فرق. تمكين الموظف لقضاء المزيد من الوقت مع رئيسه أو لها. توفير الفرصة للموظف للعبور في أدوار ومسؤوليات أخرى. خيارات تدريب الموظفين: التدريب الداخلي والتطوير الموظفين نقدر الفرصة لتطوير معارفهم ومهاراتهم دون ترك العمل أو مكان العمل. التدريب الداخلي والتنمية يجلب زائد خاص. وتعكس الأمثلة والمصطلحات والفرص الثقافة. والبيئة، واحتياجات مكان العمل الخاص بك. تمكين الموظف من حضور دورة تدريبية مقدمة داخليا. ويمكن تقديم هذه الدورة من قبل زميل في العمل في مجال خبرتهم أو من قبل مقدم خارجي أو مدرب. اطلب من الموظف تدريب موظفين آخرين على المعلومات التي تم تعلمها في ندوة أو دورة تدريبية. تقديم الوقت في اجتماع إدارة أو الغداء لمناقشة المعلومات أو تقديم المعلومات المستفادة للآخرين. (جعل هذا توقعا عندما يحضر الموظفون التدريب الخارجي والمؤتمرات.) تنفيذ جميع الأنشطة المذكورة من قبل. أثناء. وبعد دورة تدريبية لضمان نقل التعلم إلى وظيفة الموظف. شراء كتب الأعمال للموظف. رعاية نادي الكتاب الموظف الذي الموظفين مناقشة الكتاب الحالي وتطبيق مفاهيمها لشركتك. تقديم التدريب والمعلومات المطلوبة بشكل شائع على شبكة الإنترانت، وهو موقع داخلي للشركة. توفير التدريب من قبل الموظفين على دراية أو خبير خارجي في شكل حقيبة الغداء البني. الموظفين تناول الغداء واكتساب المعرفة حول موضوع ثمين. (بعض الأفكار تشمل: الاستثمار في 401 (ك)، وكيفية تغيير وتوازن الاستثمارات، نصائح للخطابة، وكيفية التواصل مع رئيسه، وتحديثات على المنتجات الجديدة التي تجعل العمل أسهل. هذه الفرص غير محدود مسح الموظفين إلى تحديد المصالح.) المطورين والموظفين المهتمين الآخرين في شركة عميل وضعت مؤخرا في مؤتمر لمدة يوم واحد مع الغداء وجميع من مظاهر مؤتمر خارجي في مركز المؤتمرات المحلية. وحضرها موظفون مهتمون، وقد درس جميع جلسات المؤتمر تقريبا من قبل الموظفين الداخليين حول المواضيع التي تهم جمهورهم الداخلي. صورة 34real34 مؤتمر طويل اليوم و you39ll نرى الفرصة. تم ضخ الموظفين إلى أبعد من الاعتقاد أنهم تعلموا وتمتعوا باليوم واكتسبوا احتراما جديدا لمعارف ومهارات زملائهم في العمل. خيارات تدريب الموظفين: التدريب الخارجي والتنمية وخاصة لتطوير مهارات جديدة وأفكار، حضور الموظفين في التدريب الخارجي أمر لا بد منه. تحقيق درجات والحضور الجامعي تعزيز المعرفة وقدرات موظفيك مع توسيع خبراتهم مع مختلف الناس والأفكار. تمكين الموظف من حضور ندوة أو مؤتمر أو متحدث أو حدث تدريب خارجي. تنفيذ جميع الأنشطة المذكورة من قبل. أثناء. وبعد دورة تدريبية لضمان نقل التعلم إلى وظيفة الموظف. دفع للموظف لاتخاذ دروس على الانترنت وتحديد منخفضة أو معدومة التكلفة عبر الإنترنت (وغير متصل) التدريب. دفع العضوية في الجمعيات المهنية الخارجية مع فهم أن الموظفين سوف يحضر الاجتماعات، وقراءة المجلات، وهكذا دواليك وتحديث زملاء العمل بانتظام. توفير جدول زمني مرن بحيث يمكن للموظف أن يستغرق وقتا لحضور الجامعة أو الكلية أو غيرها من الدورات التعليمية الرسمية. تقديم المساعدة الدراسية لتشجيع الموظفين على متابعة التعليم الإضافي. أسرار التدريب والتطوير وعدت العديد من الدافع وأسرار الاحتفاظ بالنسبة لتدريب الموظفين. وهي عوامل أساسية في مضاعفة قيمة التدريب والتطوير الذي تقدمه. السماح للموظفين لمتابعة التدريب والتطوير في الاتجاهات التي يختارونها، وليس فقط في الشركة المخصصة وتلك المطلوبة الاتجاهات. هل لديك دعم الشركة التعلم، بشكل عام، وليس فقط في دعم المعرفة اللازمة للموظفين الحالية أو القادمة وظيفة المتوقعة. اعترف بأن العامل الرئيسي هو إبقاء الموظف مهتما، وحضور، والمشاركة. إن تطوير المتعلم المشارك مدى الحياة هو عامل إيجابي لمؤسستك بغض النظر عن المدة التي يختار الموظف البقاء فيها. استخدم خیارات التدریب ھذه لضمان تحسین الدافع للموظفین والاحتفاظ المحتمل. المزيد عن التدريب والتطويرالتدريب: 14 طرق لتطوير الموظفين تحديث 14 يناير 2017 التدريب المناسب للموظفين والتطوير والتعليم في الوقت المناسب، يوفر مكاسب كبيرة لصاحب العمل في زيادة الإنتاجية والمعرفة والولاء والمساهمة من الموظفين. تعلم النهج التي تضمن أن التدريب الخاص بك يجلب عائدا على الاستثمار الخاص. وتقول رابطة صناعة المواهب (أتد) في تقرير الصناعة: 34 استمر الإنفاق على برامج التعلم كأولوية للمنظمات في عام 2015، وفقا لتقرير حالة صناعة المواهب لعام 2016. وللسنة الرابعة على التوالي، وجدت المراجعة السنوية النهائية للاستثمارات التعليمية التي أجراها معهد AtD39، أن أرباب العمل، في المتوسط، أنفقوا أكثر على نفقات التعلم المباشر لكل عامل مقارنة بالعام السابق. (34) مشهد آخر مشرق لأخصائيي الصناعة: اقترن هذا الاستثمار المتزايد بالموظفين الذين يتلقون ساعات تعلم رسمية أكثر، وفقا للبيانات التي تم جمعها في استطلاع على الإنترنت ل 310 منظمات تمثل مجموعة متنوعة من الصناعات. 34 كما وجدت دراسة أتد ما يلي: 34 في المتوسط ، أنفقت المنظمات 1،252 لكل موظف في عام 2015 على نفقات التعليم المباشر، وفقا لتقرير عام 2016، الذي ترعاه جامعة بيليفو وشركاء التدريب. هذا الرقم يلتقط تكاليف التصميم والإدارة والتكاليف المرتبطة ببرامج التعلم، بما في ذلك رواتب موظفي تطوير المواهب. وتمثل الزيادة البالغة 23 زيادة عن نفقات عام 2014 والبالغة 229 1، أكبر نمو في سنة واحدة منذ عام 2010، عندما كانت العديد من المنظمات في المراحل المبكرة من التعافي من الركود الكبير. 34 هل يوجه هذا الاستثمار الكبير إلى تصميم البرامج التعليمية وتقديمها وإدارتها داخليا أو يتم توجيهها إلى خدمات الموردين في عام 2015، بالنسبة إلى المنظمة المتوسطة، ذهب 28 في المائة من نفقات التعليم المباشر إلى الاستعانة بمصادر خارجية أو أنشطة خارجية وتشمل الخدمات االستشارية، وتطوير المحتوى الخارجي والتراخيص، وورش العمل والبرامج التدريبية التي يقوم بها مقدمو الخدمات الخارجيون (، على غرار السنوات السابقة. وخصص 11 في المائة أخرى لتسديد الرسوم الدراسية. وكان أكثر من 60 في المائة من الإنفاق قليلا على النفقات الداخلية والرواتب. 34 ضمان أن استخدام التدريب مفيد للمنظمات مع هذا الاستثمار من الساعات والدولارات في التدريب، تحتاج المنظمات لجعل بعض استثماراتهم في التدريب من الحكمة. كل موظف في كل منظمة لديه احتياجات مختلفة للتدريب. ولكل منها أساليب تدريب مختلفة يمكن أن يتعلم منها بنجاح أكبر. جوانب مهمة من التدريب كيف يتم تحديد احتياجات التدريب، وكيفية نظر الموظفين إلى التدريب، وكيفية تقديم التدريب تصبح قضايا ذات أهمية حاسمة. اتجاهات التدريب وأساليب اكتساب المعرفة، غير التدريب التقليدي في الفصول الدراسية، مثل التدريب والتوجيه. تأخذ مركز الصدارة. التدريب الذي يساعد كل موظف ينمو مهاراتهم والمعرفة لأداء أفضل وظيفتهم الحالية هو موضع تقدير كمنفعة. كما يزيد التدريب من ولاء الموظفين، وبالتالي الاحتفاظ، ويساعدك على جذب أفضل الموظفين ممكن. يتم أيضا مراجعة التدريب المقدم من مقدم التدريب، سواء عبر الإنترنت أو في الفصول الدراسية، إلى الوظيفة بشكل متزايد، حيث تستثمر المزيد من الموارد في التدريب. تعلم النهج التي تضمن العائد على الاستثمار الخاص بك وضمان ولاء الموظف. وتطالب المنظمات على نحو متزايد بتقديم مبررات نقدية بأن التدريب المقدم يؤدي إلى نتائج - أن يكون مستعدا لإثبات النتائج. خيارات التدريب والتعليم للموظفين خيارات لتدريب الموظفين وتطوير مكبرة بسبب هذه العوامل: الابتكارات التكنولوجية، واستراتيجيات الاحتفاظ بالموظفين. وضرورة قيام المنظمات بتطوير قدرات موظفيها باستمرار (39) لمواكبة وتيرة التغيير. لذلك، فإن إرسال موظف من أجل التدريب في حلقة دراسية لمدة يوم واحد أو ورشة عمل لمدة أسبوع واحد فقط من العديد من الخيارات الموجودة الآن. وقد أوصت الجمعية الأمريكية للتدريب والتطوير تقليديا بحد أدنى من التدريب لمدة 40 ساعة في السنة لكل موظف. وهذا يتفق مع التركيز على مكان الموظفين على فرصة للنمو وتطوير كل من مهاراتهم والوظيفي بينما في توظيفك. فرصة للتنمية الجارية، هي واحدة من العوامل الخمسة الأولى الموظفين يريدون تجربة في العمل. في الواقع، عدم قدرة الموظف على رؤية التقدم هو سبب غالبا ما يتم ذكره لترك صاحب العمل. كاستراتيجية الاحتفاظ بالموظفين المفضلين لديك، ومعدلات التدريب والتطوير للغاية. فقط تصورهم من رواتبهم والمنافع كما تنافسية، وتقديم التقارير إلى مدير يحلو لهم، ومعدل أعلى. 14 خيارات التدريب والتطوير للموظفين عندما تفكر في التعليم والتدريب والتنمية، توجد خيارات خارجيا، داخليا، وعبر الإنترنت. وتتراوح الخيارات من الندوات لحجز النوادي لبرامج التوجيه. إليك البدائل الحالية لمساعدة موظفيك على النمو. لتجنيد، والاحتفاظ، وإدارة التغيير والتحسين المستمر، واعتماد كل هذه الممارسات داخل المؤسسة الخاصة بك. التعليم الخارجي، والتدريب، والتنمية الندوات وورش العمل والطبقات تأتي في كل متنوعة يمكن تخيلها، سواء في شخص وعلى الانترنت. القيام برحلات ميدانية إلى شركات ومنظمات أخرى. الكليات والجامعات، وأحيانا، تعليم الكبار المحلي، وكليات المجتمع أو المدارس التقنية توفر الفصول الدراسية. الجامعات هي الوصول إلى المتعلمين الكبار مع ماجستير في إدارة الأعمال مساء وعطلة نهاية الأسبوع وبرامج الأعمال. وتقدم حلقات دراسية واجتماعات ومؤتمرات للجمعية المهنية فرصا للتدريب. التعليم الداخلي والتدريب والتطوير تقدم الندوات والصفوف التدريبية في الموقع تدريبا مخصصا لمؤسستك. التدريب يعطي الموظفين الفرصة لتبادل المعرفة. ويكتسي التوجيه أهمية متزايدة في تطوير وتدريب الموظفين كما هو الحال في برامج التوجيه الرسمية. تشكيل نادي الكتاب في العمل. ما يمكن لمنظمتك القيام به لتسهيل التعلم المستمر والتدريب المنتظم خلق بيئة تعليمية. التواصل توقعات للتعلم. تقديم دعم وقت العمل للتعلم. جعل التعلم عبر الإنترنت وقراءة جزء من كل employee39s اليوم. توفير مكتبة مهنية. عرض سداد الرسوم الدراسية الكلية. تمكين جداول مرنة بحيث يمكن للموظفين حضور الفصول الدراسية. دفع لعضوية الجمعيات المهنية وحضور المؤتمرات سنويا للموظفين. التدريب أمر حاسم في التطوير المستمر للشعب الذي توظفه والاحتفاظ بهم والنجاح. كن مبدعا لتوفير فرص متنوعة للتدريب. الفرص المتاحة لديك لتدريب وتطوير موظفيك تتوسع كل عام. لماذا لا تستفيد منها عندما تكون التنمية أحد موظفيك 39 التوقعات الأكثر أهمية من تدريب رب العمل والتدريب على التعلم والتدريب والتدريب والتوجيه والتدريب وتصميم التعلم - النامية الناس مطلوب التدريب التقليدي لتغطية المهارات الأساسية المتعلقة بالعمل، والتقنيات والمعرفة، والكثير من هذا القسم يتناول اتخاذ نهج تقدمي إيجابي لهذا النوع من التدريب التقليدي. الأهم من ذلك، فإن الطريقة الأكثر فعالية لتطوير الناس يختلف تماما عن التدريب على المهارات التقليدية، والذي يتيح مواجهة العديد من الموظفين يعتبرون سلبيا تماما. انهم يفعلون ذلك بطبيعة الحال، لكنها لن يتمتع ذلك كثيرا لأنه حول العمل، وليس عن أنفسهم كشعب. بدلا من ذلك، فإن الطريقة الأكثر فعالية لتطوير الناس هي تمكين التعلم والتنمية الشخصية. مع كل ما ينطوي عليه ذلك. لذلك، بمجرد أن غطت التدريب على المهارات الأساسية المتعلقة بالعمل الذي هو موضح كثيرا في هذا القسم - التركيز على تمكين التعلم والتنمية للناس كأفراد - الذي يمتد مجموعة من طريقة التنمية خارج مهارات العمل التقليدية والمعرفة، ويخلق بعيدا أكثر إثارة، تحرير، وتحفيز الفرص - للناس وأصحاب العمل. وتواجه المنظمات الصحيحة ضغوطا كبيرة لتغيير هذه الأيام - لتسهيل وتشجيع التنمية الكاملة للفرد وتحقيقه - بما يتجاوز التدريب التقليدي. فهرس - مجالات التدريب والأسئلة الواردة في هذه الصفحة التوجيه - مبادئ وتكاليف ومبررات، وإنشاء الموارد والموارد التدريب - الموارد في كل مكان - كيفية بناء مكتبة الخاص بك الخاصة بك كولكتيونتولبوكس ملاحظة حول الإملاء على هذا الموقع: قد تلاحظ أن الكلمات أورغانيزاتيونورغانيساتيون (والاختلافات) في هذه الصفحة مكتوبة بطريقة المملكة المتحدة الإنجليزية، المنظمة، والطريقة الإنجليزية الأمريكية، المنظمة. هذا هو حتى يتمكن الناس من العثور على المواد بسهولة عند البحث على شبكة الإنترنت. كلمات أخرى مثل اللون، صالح، وتحسين، وتحديد الأولويات، وما إلى ذلك تميل إلى اتباع هجاء اللغة الإنجليزية في المملكة المتحدة، لأنني الإنجليزية. لا تتردد في التدقيق الإملائي وتعديل هذه الملاحظات وفقا لتفضيلاتك إذا كنت تستخدم لهم لحالتك الخاصة، والتي للتعليم والدراسة على ما يرام تماما. مقدمة وسياق كما هو الحال مع هذا الموقع ككل، ويوجه هذا الدليل التدريب أساسا حول ما جيد للناس، وليس أساسا ما مربحة للمنظمات. والسبب في ذلك هو أنه من حيث التعلم والتدريب والتطوير، ما هو جيد للناس هو جيد للمنظمات التي يعملون فيها. ما هو جيد لتنمية الشعوب هو جيد للأداء التنظيمي، والجودة، ورضا العملاء، والإدارة الفعالة والسيطرة، وبالتالي الأرباح أيضا. وهذا أمر أساسي لعقد نفساني متوازن إلى حد ما في منظمات التوظيف. الربح هو نتيجة لإدارة وتطوير الناس بشكل جيد. الناس وتنميتها تمكين الربح. تمكين الأشخاص وتمكين الربح. فالمنظمات التي تقترب من التدريب والتطوير من هذا المنظور تعزز حتما الأشخاص الذين يؤدون أعمالهم جيدا والتقدم، والأهم من ذلك، البقاء على قيد الحياة لفترة طويلة بما فيه الكفاية ليصبحوا عظيمين في ما يقومون به، ومساعدة الآخرين على تحقيق ذلك. التدريب هو كلمة شائعة جدا، لذلك فإنه يتميز بشكل كبير على هذه الصفحة، ولكن التعلم هو في نواح كثيرة طريقة أفضل للتفكير في هذا الموضوع، لأن التعلم ينتمي إلى المتعلم، في حين أن التدريب ينتمي تقليديا للمدرب أو المنظمة. هذا هو فرق كبير في الموقف، وأوضح بمزيد من التفصيل على صفحة التدريب أو التعلم. وينبغي أن يكون التدريب على تنمية الشخص كله - وليس مجرد نقل المهارات، والتفسير التقليدي للتدريب في العمل. مهما كان دورك والمسؤولية، قد لا تكون قادرة على الفور على وضع تركيز جديد كبير على تنمية الشخص كله. ولكونها واقعية، فإن مواقف وتوقعات الشركات حول ما هو التدريب لا يمكن تغييره بين عشية وضحاها، ومعظم المنظمات لا تزال ترى التدريب يقتصر على مهارات العمل والفصول الدراسية والعروض باور بوينت. ومع ذلك، عندما تبدأ في تخيل والتفكير والتحدث عن المواقف التقدمية للناس النامية - وراء التدريب على المهارات التقليدية - على سبيل المثال: تمكين التعلم تسهيل التنمية الشخصية ذات مغزى مساعدة الناس على تحديد وتحقيق إمكاناتهم الشخصية ثم سوف تبدأ بالتأكيد لمساعدة (والرئيس التنفيذي) لرؤية وقبول هذه الأفكار الجديدة حول ما هي أنواع التعلم والتنمية تعمل حقا أفضل وتنتج المنظمات الرائدة في الصف. حاشية المملكة المتحدة (بما يتفق مع أوروبا) لوائح المساواة في العمل (العمر) لعام 2006، اعتبارا من 1 أكتوبر 2006، تجعل من غير القانوني التمييز ضد أي شخص على أساس السن. ويترتب على ذلك آثار عديدة على التدريب، والوثائق المستخدمة، وتدريب المدربين والميسرين. وللحصول على مزيد من التوجيهات حول آثار المساواة في السن والتمييز في التدريب وتنمية الناس، (وفي جوانب أخرى من إدارة الناس)، انظر معلومات تنوع العمر، التي تتعلق بطبيعة الحال بشكل طبيعي بموضوع التنمية الكاملة للشخص، والتنوع، وأخذ الرعاية المناسبة للناس. هناك الكثير من المواد على هذا الموقع مع أهمية خاصة لتصميم وتسليم وإدارة التعلم والتنمية. وفيما يلي بعض الأمثلة التي ستقودك إلى الآخرين، بصرف النظر عن الإرشادات العامة في هذه الصفحة: التعلم التجريبي - وتوجيه لتسهيل أنشطة التعلم التجريبي التدريب أو التعلم - تسهيل التعلم - بدلا من فرض التدريب - أفكار حول تنمية الفرد بأكمله. كما يحتوي دليل تصميم مركز اختيار اختيار الموظفين أيضا على بعض المعلومات المفيدة لتصميم التدريب والتقييم، وخاصة الحاجة إلى وضع مواصفات واضحة (معايير التنمية) قبل البدء في تصميم مفاهيم التدريب والمحتوى والتسليم وطرق التقييم، ويوضح بالمناسبة من هذا المخطط عملية الرسم: أفكار عملية التدريب وعملية المخطط هنا نظرة بسيطة نسبيا من النماذج المرجعية النموذجية والعمليات والأدوات الموجودة في التخطيط الفعال وتقديم التدريب التنظيمي. 1. تقييم احتياجات التدريب والموافقة عليها 2. إنشاء التدريب أو مواصفات التنمية 3. النظر في أنماط التعلم والشخصية 4. تخطيط التدريب والتقييم 5. تصميم المواد والأساليب وتقديم التدريب إجراء نوع من تحليل احتياجات التدريب. ومن الأمثلة الأخرى على تقييم التدريب وتحديد أولوياته تحليل ديف. وهذا يحدث عادة في عملية التقييم. إشراك الناس في تحديد والموافقة على التدريب الانحياز ذات الصلة. انظر أيضا في عمليات التوظيف الخاصة بك - ليس هناك نقطة تدريب الناس إذا لم تكن الأشخاص المناسبين للبدء. لماذا یغادر الناس أیضا یساعد علی تحدید احتیاجات التنمیة. بعد تحديد ما تريد تدريب وتطوير في الناس، يجب كسر متطلبات التدريب أو التعلم إلى عناصر يمكن التحكم فيها. إرفاق المعايير أو التدابير أو المعلمات لكل عنصر. إعادة النظر في مجموعة أدوات المهارات وتحليل الاحتياجات التدريبية - يمكن أن تساعد في تنظيم وتقييم عناصر التدريب على نطاق واسع. أنماط التعلم الشعبية تؤثر بشكل كبير على نوع التدريب الذي سوف تجد أسهل وأكثر فعالية. ننظر أيضا في أنواع الشخصية. تذكر أنك تتعامل مع الناس، وليس الأشياء. الناس لديهم مشاعر وكذلك المهارات والمعرفة. نموذج إريكسون رائع لفهم المزيد عن هذا. ضع في اعتبارك الفريق والمجموعة. نظرية أديرز يساعد. لذلك لا نموذج توكمان. النظر في فعالية التدريب التقييم. والتي تشمل القياسات قبل وبعد. نموذج كيركباتريك يساعدك بشكل خاص على تصميم هيكل التدريب. النظر في نظرية بلومز أيضا، حتى تتمكن من فهم أي نوع من التنمية كنت تعالج في الواقع. انظر نصائح التصميم برنامج الدراسة الذاتية أدناه - يوفر الإنترنت المزيد من الفرص من أي وقت مضى. العرض هو جانب هام من جوانب التسليم. تساعد تقنيات الكتابة الجيدة في تصميم المواد. حتى تفعل مبادئ الإعلان - كل شيء عن التواصل ذات مغزى. هناك قالب مفيد لمقدمي التدريب على صفحة تدريب المبيعات، والتي يمكن تكييفها لجميع أنواع مقدمي الخدمات والخدمات. هناك العديد من أساليب التدريب والتطوير المختلفة. التدريب أثناء العمل، والتدريب غير الرسمي، والتدريب في الفصول الدراسية، والدورات التدريبية الداخلية، والدورات التدريبية الخارجية، والتدريب أثناء العمل، والتدريب على الحياة. والتوجيه، والمهام والمهام التدريبية، والتدريب على المهارات، والتدريب على المنتجات، والتدريب التقني، والتدريب على تطوير السلوك، ولعب الأدوار والتمارين والألعاب. والتدريب والتدريب على المواقف، والتدريب المعتمد والتعلم، والتعلم عن بعد - كل جزء من قائمة التدريب، المتاحة للاستخدام وتطبيقها وفقا لاحتياجات التدريب الفردية واحتياجات التدريب التنظيمي. كما يتاح التدريب إلى ما هو أبعد من الفصول الدراسية وخارجها. الأهم من ذلك، التدريب، أو التعلم، للنظر في ذلك من وجهة نظر المتدربين - هو أي شيء يقدم التعلم والخبرة التنموية. ويشمل تطوير التدريب والتعلم جوانب مثل: السلوك الأخلاقي والأخلاقي وقيادة السلوك والتصميم، فضلا عن المهارات والمعارف. لا تقتصر التنمية على التدريب - أي شيء يساعد الشخص على النمو، في القدرة والمهارات والثقة والتسامح والالتزام والمبادرة والمهارات بين الأفراد والفهم وضبط النفس والدافع (انظر قسم نظرية الدافع)، وأكثر من ذلك . إذا كنت تنظر في سمات الناس فعالة حقا، سواء كانوا القادة والمديرين والمشغلين والفنيين أي دور على الإطلاق، والصفات الهامة التي تجعل الأداء الجيد خاصة من المرجح أن تكون المواقف. Skills and knowledge, and the processes available to people, are no great advantage. What makes people effective and valuable to any organization is their attitude. Attitude includes qualities that require different training and learning methods. Attitude stems from a persons mind-set, belief system, emotional maturity, self-confidence, and experience. These are the greatest training and development challenges faced, and there are better ways of achieving this sort of change and development than putting people in a classroom, or indeed by delivering most sorts of conventional business or skills training, which people see as a chore. This is why training and learning must extend far beyond conventional classroom training courses. Be creative, innovative, and open-minded, and you will discover learning in virtually every new experience, whether for yourself, your team, or your organization. If you want to make a difference, think about what really helps people to change. Many of these methodologies are explained on this website. Explore them and enjoy them, and encourage others to do the same. All supervisors and managers should enable and provide training and development for their people - training develops people, it improves performance, raises morale training and developing people increases the health and effectiveness of the organization, and the productivity of the business. The leaders ethics and behaviour set the standard for their peoples, which determines how productively they use their skills and knowledge. Training is nothing without the motivation to apply it effectively. A strong capability to plan and manage skills training, the acquisition of knowledge, and the development of motivation and attitude, largely determines how well people perform in their jobs. Training - and also enabling learning and personal development - is essential for the organisation. It helps improve quality, customer satisfaction, productivity, morale, management succession, business development and profitability. As regards conventional work-related training planning, and training itself, these are step-by-step processes - see and download a free training process diagram. More free training tools are available for download at the free training tools and resources page. See for example the training planner and traininglesson plan calculator tool. which are templates for planning and organising the delivery of job skills training and processes, and transfer of knowledge and policy etc. See also the training induction checklist and planner tool. Use these tools and processes to ensure that essential work-related skills, techniques, and knowledge are trained, but remember after this to concentrate most of your training efforts and resources on enabling and facilitating meaningful learning and personal development for people . There is no reason to stop at work-related training. Go further to help people grow and develop as people. Having said this, we do need to start with the essentials, for example induction training for new starters. Induction Training is especially important for new starters. Good induction training ensures new starters are retained, and then settled in quickly and happily to a productive role. Induction training is more than skills training. Its about the basics that seasoned employees all take for granted: what the shifts are where the notice-board is whats the routine for holidays, sickness wheres the canteen whats the dress code where the toilets are. New employees also need to understand the organisations mission, goals and philosophy personnel practices, health and safety rules, and of course the job theyre required to do, with clear methods, timescales and expectations. Managers must ensure induction training is properly planned - an induction training plan must be issued to each new employee, so they and everyone else involved can see whats happening and that everything is included. You must prepare and provide a suitable induction plan for each new starter. Heres a free induction training checklist. These induction training principles are necessarily focused on the essential skills and knowledge for a new starter to settle in and to begin to do their job. However there is great advantage in beginning to address personal development needs, wishes, opportunities, particular strengths, abilities, talent, etc. during or very soon after the induction process. The sooner the better. An organisation needs to assess its peoples skills training needs - by a variety of methods - and then structure the way that the training and development is to be delivered, and managers and supervisors play a key role in helping this process. Peoples personal strengths and capabilities - and aims and desires and special talents (current and dormant) - also need to be assessed, so as to understand, and help the person understand, that the opportunities for their development and achievement in the organisation are not limited by the job role, or the skill-set that the organisation inevitably defines for the person. As early as possible, let people know that their job role does not define their potential as a person within or outside the organisation, and, subject to organisational policy, look to develop each person in a meaningful relevant way that they will enjoy and seek, as an individual, beyond the job role, and beyond work requirements. If possible top-up this sort of development through the provision of mentoring and facilitative coaching (drawing out - not putting in), which is very effective in producing excellent people. Mentoring and proper coaching should be used alongside formal structured training anyway, but this type of support can also greatly assist whole-person development, especially where the mentor or coach is seen as a role-model for the persons own particular aspirations. Its important that as a manager you understand yourself well before you coach, or train or mentor others: Are your own your own skills adequate Do you need help or training in any important areas necessary to train, coach, mentor others What is your own style How do you you communicate How do you approach tasks What are your motives These all affect the way you see and perform see the training, coaching or mentoring role, and the way that you see and relate to the person that your are coaching, or training, or mentoring. Your aim is to help the other person learn and develop - not to create another version of yourself. When you understand yourself, you understand how you will be perceived, how best to communicate, and how best to help others grow and learn and develop. And its vital you understand the other persons style and personality too - how they prefer to learn - do they like to read and absorb a lot of detail, do they prefer to be shown, to experience themselves by trial and error Knowing the other persons preferred learning style helps you deliver the training in the most relevant and helpful way. It helps you design activities and tasks that the other person will be more be more comfortable doing, which ensures a better result, quicker. Various models and tests are available to help understand learning styles - look at the Kolb model. Look at multiple intelligences and the VAK learning model and free learning style tests. See also the Johari Window model and adapted theory - its a useful explanation of the importance of open communications and strong mutual understanding among staff in organizations, and for all situations where people work together. Its also a useful model for personal awareness and self-development. prioritising training Given the vast range of skills and other competencies which can be developed in people it is useful for some sort of prioritising to take place so that training focuses on the areas which will yield best benefit, in other words, return on investment (typically in terms of organizational performance, although the needs of teams and individuals can also be very significant in prioritising training and development, depending on the situation.) In addition to the skill-sets and training needs analysis tools on this website, here are three other examples of methods for prioritising training: EssentialDesirable - simply and quickly define each activity (skill, competency, whatever) according to whether it is essential or desirable for the job purpose and organizational performance. Training priority is obviously given to developing essential competencies. ImportanceCompetency matrix - the highest training priorities are obviously the activities (skills, competencies, whatever) which are high importance (of task to organizational performance) and low competence (of trainee skill level). high importance and low competence high training priority high importance and high competence low training priority low importance and low competence low training priority low importance and high competence zero training priority DIF Analysis - DIF stands for Difficulty, Importance, Frequency. DIF Analysis is a sophisticated (and potentially very complex) method of assessing performance, prioritising training needs and planning training, based on three perspectives: Difficulty, Importance, and Frequency. The system looks at tasks and activities (or skills, competencies, whatever) rather than looking at development from a personal individual perspective. DIF Analysis can be used in different ways: for example as a flow diagram to consider each activity using a simple yesno for each of the three factors in sequence of Difficulty (yesno), Importance (yesno) and Frequency (yesno), which generates eight possible combinations. At a simple level, an activity that scores low on all three scales is obviously low priority whereas an activity that scores high on all three scales is a high priority. Weighting (significance of each factor relative to the job purposeaims) is required in order to optimise the usefulness and relevance of the system, especially if applied to a group or organization. Analysis can become extremely complex, so it is sensible to ensure that the level of analysis is appropriate for the situation before starting to build complex analysis systems. For such a potentially detailed system, DIF Analysis does not automatically take account of personal preferences and potential capabilities, and as such consideration to this aspect is wise where trainee commitment is influential upon development, which in most situations is the case. The Skill-set and TNA tools on this website could, given modest expertise in spreadsheets and logic, be adapted to manage DIF Analysis, although better dedicated DIF Analysis tools exist. If you have one to share please send it. Other methods exist for prioritising training. Choose or develop a method which is appropriate for your situation. Resist the tendency to become overly detailed. Analysis and detail should always be a means to an end (to achieve effective training and development), not an end in themselves. Ultimately the best way to prioritise training is can be simply to agree with the trainee what they are most keen to commit to. All the analysis and detail in the world will not guarantee trainee commitment, which is generally the most powerful force for effective training and development. Task-based analysis is important for organizational development measurement and planning, but approaching training prioritisation from purely a task perspective ignores the vital personal factor. developing people and capabilities Many organizations face the challenge of developing greater confidence, initiative, solutions-finding, and problem-solving capabilities among their people. Organisations need staff at all levels to be more self-sufficient, resourceful, creative and autonomous. This behaviour enables staff can operate at higher strategic level, which makes their organizations more productive and competitive. Peoples efforts produce bigger results. Its what all organizations strive to achieve. However, while conventional skills training gives people new techniques and methods, it wont develop their maturity, belief, or courage, which is so essential for the development of managerial and strategic capabilities. Again, focus on developing the person . not the skills. Try to see things from the persons (your peoples) point of view. Provide learning and experiences that theyd like for their own personal interest, development and fulfilment. Performance and capability are ultimately dependent on peoples attitude and emotional maturity. Help them to achieve what they want on a personal level, and this provides a platform for trust, emotional contracting with the organisation, and subsequent skillsprocessknowledge development relevant to managing higher responsibilities, roles and teams. Participative workshops work well in beginning this type of attitudinal development. Involve people right from the start. Focus on what they want. You could also use a personal development questionnaire to begin to set the scene and provide examples of alternative learning opportunities. It starts with the person, not the skills. Its about attitude and emotional maturity. The Emotional Intelligence principles and methodologies fit very well with modern approaches to developing peoples belief, maturity and attitude. When people develop confidence, integrity, emotionally, they automatically become more proactive, solutions-focused, responsive, etc. which across a whole team has a cumulative effect. Johari is a useful model too. So many people at work are simply going through the motions, acting in a conforming state, often because they feel insecure, lack confidence to do what they think is right, or are nervous about being bold, whereas boldness is absolutely required for self-sufficiency, initiative, greater responsibility in fact all of the behaviours that organizations strive to encourage. You cant teach boldness - people have to experience things which enable them to feel bolder, to take risks, and to want to take risks. This means the rewards must be there too, or people have no reason to stick their necks out. And not just the prospect of financial reward. More importantly the Herzberg - type motivators - real extra responsibility, recognition, and involvement in new successful and interesting projects. This is the fuel of peoples growth and change. designing self-study training and learning programmes The same basic principles apply to designing self-study programs as to any other sort of training design. The internet enables self-study learning and development programs to be more useful, empowering and cost-effective than ever before. The only limits are those you imagine. Be creative and innovative. Look on the web for ideas and self-study and self-development resources, methods, groups, and technologies. هناك العديد. This website is effectively a self-study program. Its not a particularly conventional one, nor an accredited or measurable one. Like any sort of learning it will appeal to some people but not others. As ever consider what you seek to achieve, before you design how to achieve it. Know yourself as a trainer (andor encourage this among your trainers), and help trainees and learners to know themselves. Then it is easier to decide how and what will help best. To help you structure and design and assess learning, read the training design and evaluation materials on this page and elsewhere on the website, for example the Kirpatrick evaluation and design model. the learning styles and multiple intelligence theories. and the Bloom learning domains taxonomy model. The group selection recruitment and assessment centre guide is also relevant. Assessment and development are tightly connected. To help you understand yourself read the materials relating to personality and motivation, such as Eriksons theory. the personality styles theories. and the ideas of Maslow. Herzberg. McGregor. etc. Designing a good self-study program should by its nature if possible involve the students. Involving people from the beginning increases ideas, relevance and commitment. mentoring linked to projects and objectives activities Linking mentoring with objectives and project tasks or activities is a highly productive and effective modern method of training and developing people in organizations, especially for staff in teams and departments, and for developing organizations themselves . The approach builds on management by objectives (MBOs) principles, but is more participative, voluntary and inclusive. By comparison, MBOs are a one-way street isolated and individually separate, prescribed along a single-channel towards a task focus. Well-facilitated activity focused mentoring is consensual, team-orientated, with a personal development and team building focus, across multiple organizational interfaces, particularly to and between managementsubordinatepeer levels. Activity focused mentoring methods also help develop systems (not IT and processes, but overall systems: ie. how an organization works), organizations, management and communications, in an open, dynamic, organic, three-dimensional way. The activity-mentoring approach uses several integrated techniques which produce more reliable and relevant training and learning outputs, in terms of individual skills, attitudinal development, and direct job and organizational performance improvement. The approach is facilitative rather than prescriptive . and broadly features: strategic assessment of organisational and department priorities and high-yield training needs interpreted discussion with line-managers of training delegates and strategic managers of the organisation pre-training skillsbehavioural needs-analysis - all training delegates - and pre-training preparatory work small groups - practical workshops - short sessions - highly participative and situationsolution-based - focused on practical job issues, individual personalitylearning style and organisational priorities individually agreed tasks and assignments - focused on practical priorities and individual needs (SMART and WIIFM factors ) follow-up coaching and mentoring one-to-one support - giving high accountability and reliable deliverables ongoing feedback and review with line-managers and strategic managers - coachingtask notes for line managers The process works on several different levels: individual, team, task, organisational and strategic. Activity focused mentoring also gives strong outputs in skills, behaviour and job priority areas, as well as being strongly motivational and where necessary resolving conflict and attitudinal issues. mentoring cost analysis and justification Mentoring can be provided in various ways and programmes take a variety of shapes. Mentoring can be external, where the mentoring is essentially provided by external people, or an internal activity, using mentors within the organisation. Due to the relative newness of mentoring as a formal organised process, and because mentoring programmes are so varied, statistics as to general costs and returns across industry are not easy to find. Here however are general cost indicators for a program essentially delivered by internally appointed mentors. The main elements of a mentoring programme that carry quantifiable cost would be: Training of mentor(s) - comfortably achievable for pound1,000head - its not rocket science, but selection of suitable mentor is absolutely critical - good natural mentors need little training other people who are not ready or able to help others can be beyond any amount of training. Mentor time away from normal activities - needs to be a minimum of an hour a month one-to-one or nothing can usefully be achieved, up to at most a couple of hours a week one-to-one, which would be intensive almost to the point of overloading the mentoree. That said, there may be occasions when the one-to-one would necessarily involve a whole day out for the mentor, for instance client or supplier visits. Say on average a day a month including the associated administration work, particularly where the mentoring is required to be formalised and recorded. Overseeing the program, evaluating and monitoring activity, progress and outputs - depends on the size of the program, ie. number of mentors an number of mentorees - if the mentoring is limited to just a single one-to-one relationship then its largely self-managing - if its a programme involving several mentors an mentorees then estimate an hour per quarter (3 mths) per one-to-one mentoring relationship - probably the responsibility of an HR or training manager. If this person with the overviewmonitoring responsibility needs external advice youd need to add on two or three days external training or consultancy costs. ( Mentoree time away from normal activities - effective mentoring should ideally integrate with the mentorees normal activities, and enhance productivity, effectiveness, etc. so this is arguably a credit not a debit.) mentoring principles and techniques Rather than simply give the answers, the mentors role should be to help the mentoree find the answers for himherself . While giving the answers is usually better than giving no help at all, helping the mentoree to find the answers for himherself provides far more effective mentoring, because the process enables so much more for the mentoree in terms of experience of learning . Give someone the answers and they learn only the answers instead mentors need to facilitate the experience of discovery and learning. The mentor should therefore focus mentoring effort and expectations (of the person being mentored especially, and the organisation) on helping and guiding the mentoree to find the answers and develop solutions of hisher own. Accordingly, many of the principles of mentoring are common to those of proper coaching, which are particularly prominent within life coaching. You should also refer to aspects of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). and Sharon Drew Morgens Facilitative Questioning methodology. Mentors need to be facilitators and coaches, not tutors or trainers. Mentorees need simply to open their minds to the guidance and facilitative methods of the mentor. The mentor should not normally (unless in the case of emergency) provide the answers for the mentoree instead a mentor should ask the right questions (facilitative, guiding, interpretive, non-judgemental) that guide the mentoree towards finding the answers for himherself. If a mentor tells a mentoree what to do, then the mentoree becomes like the mentor, which is not right nor sustainable, and does not help the mentoree to find hisher own true self. The mentors role is to help the mentoree to find hisher own true self to experience their own attempts, failures and successes, and by so doing, to develop hisher own natural strengths and potential. We can see parallels in the relationship between a parents and a child. If a parent imposes his or her ways, methods and thinking upon a child, the child becomes a clone of the parent, and in some cases then falsifies his or her own true self to please and replicate the model projected by the parent. The true self might never appear, or when it begins to, a crisis of confidence and purpose occurs as the person tries to find and liberate his or her true self. When we mentor people, or when we raise children, we should try to help them develop as individuals according to their natural selves . and their own wishes . not ours. tips on establishing a mentoring service or programme There are very many ways to design a mentoring programme, whether within an organization, or as a service or help that you provide personally to others. Here are some questions that you should ask yourself. The answers will move you closer to what you seek to achieve: What parameters and aims have you set for the mentoring activity What will your mentoring programme or service look and feel like What must it achieve and for whom What are your timescales How will the mentoring programme or activity be resourced and managed and measured What type of design and planning approach works best for you (It makes sense to use a design and planning approach that works for you.) What are your main skills and style and how might these influence the programme design What methods (phone, face-to-face, email, etc) of communication and feedback are available to you, and what communications methods do your customers need and prefer What outputs and effects do you want the programme to produce for you, and for the people being mentored How might you build these core aims, and the implied values and principles, into your programme design How can you best measure and agree that these outputs - especially the agreed expectations of the people being mentored - are being met. How can you best help people in matters for which you need to refer them elsewhere What skills, processes, tools, experience, knowledge, style do you think you will need that you do not currently have What do your customers indicate that they want in terms of content, method and style or mentoring - in other words what does your target market need. and what parts of those requirements are you naturally best able to meet Mentoring is potentially an infinite demand upon the mentor so you need to have a clear idea of the extent of your mentoring offering. Establishing clear visible parameters enables proper agreement of mutual expectations. general training tips These tips apply essentially to traditional work-related training - for the transfer of necessary job - or work-related skills or knowledge. These tips do not apply automatically to other forms of enabling personal development and facilitating learning, which by their nature involve much wider and various development methods and experiences. When planning training think about: your objectives - keep them in mind all the time how many people you are training the methods and format you will use when and how long the training lasts where it happens how you will measure its effectiveness how you will measure the trainees reaction to it When you you give skills training to someone use this simple five-step approach: prepare the trainee - take care to relax them as lots of people find learning new things stressful explain the jobtask, skill, project, etc - discuss the method and why explain standards and why explain necessary tools, equipment or systems provide a demonstration - step-by-step - the more complex, the more steps - people cannot absorb a whole complicated task all in one go - break it down - always show the correct way - accentuate the positive - seek feedback and check understanding have the trainee practice the job - we all learn best by actually doing it - (I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I un derstand - Confucius) monitor progress - give positive feedback - encourage, coach and adapt according to the pace of development Creating and using progress charts are helpful, and are essential for anything complex - if you cant measure it you cant manage it. Its essential to use other training tools too for planning, measuring, assessing, recording and following up on the persons training. Breaking skills down into easily digestible elements enables you to plan and manage the training activities much more effectively. Training people in stages, when you can build up each skill, and then an entire role, from a series of elements, keeps things controlled, relaxed and always achievable in the mind of the trainee. Establishing a relevant skill set is essential for assessing and prioritising training for any role. It is not sufficient simply to assess against a job description, as this does not reflect skills, only responsibilities, which are different. Establishing a behaviour set is also very useful, but is a more difficult area to assess and develop. More information and guidance about working with Skill-Sets and Behaviour Sets, and assessment and training planning see training evaluation. and performance appraisals. and other related linked articles on this site. Using Skill-Sets to measure individuals skills and competencies is the first stage in producing a training needs analysis for individuals, a group, and a whole organisation. You can see and download a free Skill-Set tool and Training Needs Analysis tool the free resources page. This will not however go beyond the basic work-related job skills and attributes development areas. These tools deal merely with basic work training, and not with more important whole person development, for which more sophisticated questioning, mentoring and learning facilitation methods need to be used. Psychometric tests (and even graphology - handwriting analysis) are also extremely useful for training and developing people, as well as recruitment, which is the more common use. Psychometric testing produces reliable assessments which are by their nature objective, rather than subjective, as tends to be with your own personal judgement. Your organisation may already use systems of one sort or another, so seek advice. See the section on psychometrics. Some of these systems and tools are extremely useful in facilitating whole-person learning and development. Some tips to make training (and learning, coaching, mentoring) more enjoyable and effective: keep instructions positive (do this rather than dont do this) avoid jargon - or if you cant then explain them and better still provide a written glossary you must tailor training to the individual, so you need to be prepared to adapt the pace according to the performance once training has begun encourage, and be kind and thoughtful - be accepting of mistakes, and treat them as an opportunity for you both to learn from them focus on accomplishment and progress - recognition is the fuel of development offer praise generously be enthusiastic - if you show you care you can expect your trainee to care too check progress regularly and give feedback invite questions and discussion be patient and keep a sense of humour Induction training tips: assess skill and knowledge level before you start teach the really easy stuff first break it down into small steps and pieces of information encourage pride cove r health and safety issues fully and carefully try to identify a mentor or helper for the trainee As a manager, supervisor, or an organisation, helping your people to develop is the greatest contribution you can make to their well-being. Do it to your utmost and you will be rewarded many times over through greater productivity, efficiency, environment and all-round job-satisfaction. Remember also to strive for your own personal self-development at all times - these days we have more opportunity and resource available than ever to increase our skills, knowledge and self-awareness. Make use of it all. recognise and acknowledge training and development achievements - letter examples As an employer or manager, take the time to recognise and thank employees for successfully (or unsuccessfully) completing training and development courses, projects or challenges. Receiving recognition is a powerful motivator and stimulant towards further training and personal development. And yet the opportunity to acknowledge peoples achievements is often overlooked. A simple letter of congratulations - especially in this age of disposable emails, or a mention in a company magazine or newsletter is often all that it takes to give people a huge boost. An email, or even a verbal well done or pat on the back is better than nothing at all, but a letter is a very powerful indeed. Think about it: A letter, sent to the home address, is special. Its on official letterheaded paper. Its personally signed. It took time and care to write, sign and send. Its something people tend to keep. It is likely to be opened so that the partner or family sees it too, which dramatically adds to the power of the recognition. So, an email is good, but not nearly so impactful as a letter. Heres are some short examples of simple sample letters of congratulations or encouragement for completing training and development aims, successfully, and also encouragement for unsuccessful effort, when some people need a boost more than ever. Letters of recognition and congratulations are appropriate from line managers, and higher up the organisation especially. An individual signed letter of congratulations from the MD or CEO is a hugely motivational event in most employees lives. Peoples valiant failures deserve recognition too, and often help the person to keep positive, and keep striving to succeed in the future. Remember that training and development is not restricted to training courses. Projects, delegated tasks, job-swaps, temporary postings and other responsibilities can all be forms of learning and development and are worthy of recognition when carried out well, or encouragement when a brave effort fall short. Adapt these examples to give encouragement to people when they are striving to improve and achieve. It can make the difference between them wanting to try again or not. sample letter of congratulations (name, home address, date) My warmest congratulations to you on your completion of your. training courseprogramme on (date). Your achievement (of. qualificationaccreditation) is richly deserved, and is a great example for others to follow. I encourage you to continue to strive towards further personal development. Best wishes, etc. sample letter of recognition of successful effort (name, home address, date) I am writing to give you my personal appreciation for a job well done when you recently. I recognise this was a tough challenge for you. The way you handled the demands and pressures is an inspiring example to others. You will I suspect go on from this to greater challenges and achievements in the future. Keep up your excellent efforts. Best wishes, etc sample letter of recognition of unsuccessful effort (name, home address, date) I realise that your recent failure to achievecomplete. qualificationcourse will have been a disappointment to you. However, I wanted to let you know that I was greatly impressed by your efforts and attitude in approaching your challenges, and I have every faith that you will succeed on your next attempt. The lessons we learn from our failures are often even more valuable than the experience we gain from our successes. Keep up your excellent efforts. Best wishes, etc leadership and management training and development - processes overview Heres an overview of some simple processes for training and developing management and leadership skills, and any other skills and abilities besides. Use your own tools and processes where they exist and are effective. Various tools are available on the free resources section to help with this process, or from the links below. Refer also to the coaching and development process diagram. Obtain commitment from trainees for development process. Commitment is essential for the development. If possible link this with appraisals and career development systems. Involve trainees in identifying leadership qualities and create skillbehaviour-set that you seek to develop. Training and development workshops are ideal for this activity. Assess, prioritise and agree trainee capabilities, gaps, needs against the skillbehaviour-set individually and as a group, so as to be able to plan group training and individual training according to needs and efficiency of provision. Use the skillbehaviour-set tool for this activity. Use the training needs analysis tool for assessing training needs priorities for a group or whole organization. Design andor source and agree with trainees the activities, exercises, learning, experiences to achieve required training and development in digestible achievable elements - ie break it down. Use the training planner to plan the development and training activities and programmes. Record training objectives and link to appraisals. Establish and agree measures, outputs, tasks, standards, milestones, etc. Use the SMART task model and tool. Training and development can be achieved through very many different methods - use as many as you need to and which suit the individuals and the group. Refer to the Kolb learning styles ideas - different people are suited to different forms of training and learning. Exercises that involve managing project teams towards agreed specific outcomes are ideal for developing management and leadership ability. Start with small projects, then increase project size, complexity and timescales as the trainees abilities grow. Here are examples of other types of training and development. Training need not be expensive, although some obviously is much of this training and development is free the only requirements are imagination, commitment and a solid process to manage and acknowledge the development. The list is not exhaustive the trainer and trainees will have lots more ideas: on the job coaching mentoring delegated tasks and projects reading assignments presentation assignments job deputisation or secondment external training courses and seminars distance learning evening classes hobbies - eg voluntary clubcommittee positions, sports, outdoor activities, and virtually anything outside work that provides a useful personal development challenge internal training courses attending internal briefings and presentations, eg lunch and learn format special responsibilities which require obtaining new skills or knowledge or exposure video internet and e-learning customer and supplier visits attachment to project or other teams job-swap accredited outside courses based on new qualifications, eg NVQs, MBAs, etc. management training with no guarantee of a management job Training people, especially graduates, young rising stars and new recruits, is commonly linked to the veiled promise of or allusion to management opportunity. But what happens when the organisation is unable to offer a management promotion at the end of the training programme This is a familiar pattern and challenge in many organisations. How can you encourage people into a management development programmes, with no assurance of a promotion into management at the end of it The problem lies in the mismatched expectations at the outset: the trainee hopes (which develops into an expectation) for promotion. The organisation cannot (quite rightly) guarantee that a management job will be offered. No wonder that it often ends in tears, and what should have been (and actually still is) a positive experience, namely the learning and experience achieved, turns into a crisis for HR to diffuse, because the trainee feels let down and disappointed. Heres a different way to approach management development: First, come back a few stages and consider the values, beliefs and real nature of the emotional, spiritual and personal development that these people (the management trainees) might need and respond to most. Then youll find it easier to define an honest set of expectations on each side (the graduates and the employer). If the training is positioned as a possible step towards a management promotion, people will become focused on the wrong expectations and aims, and when, as most of them will do, people fail to achieve a promotion they will feel they have failed, and the experience turns sour. Better to design the learning as a significant personal development experience in its own right, with absolutely no promise of a job or a promotion at the end of it. That way everyones (employer and employees) expectations match openly and honestly, and people are all focused on enjoying and benefiting from the learning as the central aim, rather than continually hoping that the management job happens, or in the case of the employer and program manager, preparing to defend and appease folks at the end when theres no job. Added to which, by defining and designing the programme as personal development, enrichment, experience, life-learning, etc (there are many highly appealing and worthy ways to specify and describe a programme like this) - and not being afraid of doing so - you will attract the right sort of people into it ie. the more emotionally mature and positive ones, who want to do it for the learning and experience, rather than purely for the chance of a promotion into management. The irony of course is that students who respond to a learning and personal enrichment opportunity per se, with no guarantees or allusions to management promotion, will be the best management candidates of all. tips for assessing organizational training effectiveness Look at and understand the broad organizational context and business environment: the type, size, scale, spread, geography, logistics, etc. of the business or organization. This includes where and when people work (which influences how and when training can be delivered). Look also at the skills requirements for the people in the business in general terms as would influence training significance and dependence - factors which suggest high dependence on training are things like: fast-changing business (IT, business services, healthcare, etc), significant customer service activities, new and growing businesses, strong health and safety implications (chemicals, hazardous areas, transport, utilities). Note that all businesses have a high dependence on training, but in certain businesses training need is higher than others - change (in the business or the market) is the key factor which drives training need. Assess and analyse how training and development is organized and the way that training is prioritised. Think about improvements to training organization and planning that would benefit the organisation. Review the business strategypositioningmissionplans (and HR strategy if any exists) as these statements will help you to establish the central business aims. Training should all be traceable back to these business aims, however often it isnt - instead its often arbitrary and isolated. Assess how the training relates to the business aims, and how the effectiveness of the training in moving the business towards these aims is measured. Often training isnt measured at all - it needs to be. Look at the details and overview of what training is planned for the people in the business. The training department or HR department should have this information. There should be a clear written training plan, including training aims, methods, relevance and outputs connected to the wider aims of the business. Look also at how training relates to and is influenced by appraisals and career development also recruitment, and general ongoing skillsbehavioural assessment. There should be process links between these activities, particularly recruitment and appraisals, and training planning. Detailed training needs should be driven substantially by staff appraisals. (It goes without saying that there should be consistent processes and application of staff appraisals, and that these should use suitable job performance measures that are current and relevant to the operations and aims of the business.) Look particularly at management training and development. The bigger the business, generally the bigger the dependence on management training and development. Look at new starter induction training - its critical and typically a common failing in situations where anything higher than a low percentage of new starters leave soon after joining. Look for the relationships between training, qualifications, job grades and payreward levels - these activities and structures must be linked, and the connections should be visible to and understood by all staff. Look especially at staff turnover ( per annum of total staff is the key indicator), exit interviews, customer satisfaction surveys, staff satisfaction surveys (if they exist) for other indicators as to staff development and motivational needs and thereby, training deficiencies. Look for any market research or competitor analysis data which will indicate business shortcomings and weaknesses, which will imply staff training needs, obviously in areas of the most important areas of competitive weakness in relation to the business positioning and strategy. Look to see if there is director training and development - many directors have never been trained for their roles, and often hide from and resist any effort to remedy these weaknesses. Base training recommendations and changes on improving training effectiveness in terms of: relevance to organizational aims methods of staff assessment training designsourcing training type, mix and suitability, given staff and business circumstances (consider all training options available - there are very many and some are relatively inexpensive, and provide other organizational benefits in-house, external training courses and seminars, workshops, coaching, mentoring, job-swap, secondment, distance-learning, day-release, accreditedqualification-linked, etc) remedies for identified organizational and business performance problem areas, eg. high staff turnover, general attrition or dissatisfaction levels, customer complaints, morale, supplier retention and relationships, wastage and shrinkage, legal and environmental compliance, recruitment difficulties, management and director succession, and other key performance indicators of the business (which should be stated in business planning documents) comparative costs of different types of training per head, per staff typelevel measurement of training effectiveness, and especially feedback from staff being trained: interview departmental heads and staff to see what they think of training - how its planned, delivered, measured, and how effective it is measuring and increasing training days or hours per person Measuring training hours per person as an average across the organization, typically per year, is often a useful training and development KPI (Key Performance Indicator) of the training function - more training acronyms here. If you cant measure it you cant manage it, the saying goes. The degree of difficulty in measuring training time per person depends on what you define as training: training time per person on training courses is relatively easy to measure, but on-the-job coaching, informal mentoring, personal reading and learning - these are less quantifiable - youd normally need to get this data from the employees via a survey or other special report. It is possible to manage training time per person aims and data via annual appraisals, when training past and future could be quantified - this could be a relatively simple add-on to whatever appraisal system you are using currently, and could relatively easily be cascaded via managers. Your previous years total training course time - i. e. person-days spent on training courses - divided by number of employees in the organization is an easy start point. This will give you the average training course time per employee, and if you have no other benchmarks is as good a start point as any. Then perhaps agree a sensible target uplift on this, assuming the training requirement is linked to organisational aims and personal development, rather than training for the sake of it just to increase the hours per person. You can make this calculation for a team, a job grade, a department or a whole organization. You could also survey the managers as to their estimate of how much on-the-job-coaching they provided per person as an average during a week. This gives another benchmark, albeit it an estimate, for which you can target an uplift and then monitor via managers reporting back every month or quarter. Remind managers to include, and if possible to categorise all the different sorts of training and coaching that takes place, as they will tend to forget or ignore certain types, for example job cover, training at meetings, taking on new tasks and responsibilities, delegated tasks, shadowing, etc. Training comes in various forms - if you are measuring it make sure you dont underestimate the level of activity. training planning factors These guidelines essentially deal with conventional work skills training and development. Remember that beyond this, issues of personal development and learning, for life, not just work, are the most significant areas of personal development to focus on. To plan traditional training of work skills and capabilities that links to organizational performance improvement you must first identify the organizational performance needs, gaps, and priorities. These are examples of typical training drivers which give rise to training needs. It is rare to use all of these aspects in determining training needs - select the ones which are most appropriate to your own situation, the drivers which will produce the most productive and cost-effective results, in terms of business performance and people-development: examples of training drivers Customer satisfaction surveys Business performance statistics and reports. Financial reports and ratios. Competitor analysis and comparison, eg SWOT analysis. Management feedback on employee needs, including from appraisals. Training audits, staff assessment centres. Staff feedback on training needs. Director-driven policy and strategic priorities. Legislative pressures. Relevant qualification and certification programmes. Use the results and indicators from the chosen driver(s) to produce prioritised training needs per staff type, which will logically enable staff and management to achieve improvements required required by the organization. There are several free training needs analysis and planning tools on the free resources section which might help you assess and analyse staff training needs, and then construct training plans. potential conflict between HRtraining function and business management Conflict can arise between HRTraining and other parts of the organization, commonly due to differing priorities among performance management functions within a business, and notably relating to training, development and welfare of staff. If so, you need to identify conflict and manage it. Conflict is often caused by the different aims of the departments, and you need to facilitate understanding and cooperation on both sides. This is especially important in order to achieve successful training needs assessment, training design, planning, delivery and optimal take-up and implementation. Aside this there are very much deeper implications for organizations seeking to be truly cohesive, joined-up, and aligned towards common set of corporate aims and values. If you see any of the following symptoms of conflict, consider the root cause and facilitate strategic discussion and agreement, rather than limit your activity to simply resolving or responding only to the symptom. management resisting release of staff for training due to day-to-day work demands short-term needs of performance management vs long-term outlook of HR HR have no line authority over trainees therefore cannot control training take-up Training is rarely well followed-through once delegates are back in jobs, despite HR efforts to achieve this via managers HR budgets are often cut if profits come under pressure Generally conflict would stem from the values and priorities of directors, managers and staff involved, and the aims and processes of the different HR functions. Here are some subject headings that serve as a checklist to see that the aims and priorities of HRTraining align optimally with those of other departments (the list is not exhaustive but should enable the main points of potential misalignment to be addressed): profit, costs, budgets well-being of staff ethics and morality in treatment of staff legal adherence business strategy training and development needs (skills, knowledge, EQ, etc) succession planning assessment and appraisals promotion recruitment age, gender, disability policies harassment counselling workforce planning management structure decision-making and approval processes outsourcing contracts of employment corporate mission and values acquisitions and divestments premises pay and remuneration plans and market positioning use of agencies advertising and image positioning statement and introduction to training courses and materials for groups of mixed abilities In many training and teaching situations it is not possible to identify and assemble groups of delegates whose needs, experience and ability levels closely match each other. Groups will therefore often comprise of trainees and learners who have different levels of experience, andor abilities, styles, expectations, needs, aims, etc. This places additional demands on the training providerfacilitators to ensure that the needs of all delegates are met, while not causing any frustration or boredom for delegates who already know or possess certain parts of the information and abilities (or think they do) that the teaching seeks to transfer. As such it is often helpful for trainers and delegates to acknowledge and accept this situation at the beginning of the course or training session, with the purpose of reducing potential frustrations and negative reactions and effects as far as possible. Here is a suggested introductory statement, which aims to achieve a commitment to understand the needs of others. You will notice that the statement is designed to appeal to the mature and responsible nature that exists in virtually all people. The challenge is to tap into this at the outset, in order to set a positive constructive atmosphere and standard of behaviour for the training. Adapt it to suit your own situation. This special training introduction is additional to any other introduction that youll be using to outline the training aims, domestic arrangements, fire-drill, etc. The statement or an adapted version can also be included within the introduction section of training course notes and manuals. Example training introduction for groups of mixed abilities and needs: Training Introduction - Please help to make this coursesession as positive and helpful for all delegates While every effort has been made to design this coursesession to appeal to the needs of all delegates, it is almost inevitable that each of you will have slightly (and in some cases significantly) different past experiences, levels of ability and knowledge, personal skills and styles, and needs and expectations. Therefore during this coursesession some of the learning might already be known or familiar to you. Please bear in mind that this will not be the case for all of your fellow delegates. نحن جميعا مختلفون. As such we would greatly appreciate your cooperation, tolerance and awareness as to the needs of others on this course. If you find yourself thinking that youve heard at all before please take a few moments to think: Have you really heard it all before, or are you overlaying your own experiences onto some new ideas This is not an unusual reaction among very capable people when confronting new ideas, so first its good to test your initial reaction - it would be a pity to miss out. If you are convinced that the training is covering an area that you know well please then consider how to make the best of this situation. If you know the area well, look for opportunities to make constructive suggestions and to provide helpful examples to the group. Trainers and facilitators have a tough job to do and will generally appreciate constructive help and participation from senior or experienced members of the group. If you find yourself completing exercises much quicker than your fellow delegates, look to help others, especially if the trainer or facilitator is working alone with a large group, and especially if other members are struggling. If you find yourself knowing the answers to lots of the questions that arise during the training, consider if less experienced delegates will benefit from working out the answers for themselves, with some prompting from you if helpful. Nobody ever learned much from answering an easy question, but we learn a lot from helping someone else who finds a question difficult. Delegates who help the group as well as learn new things for themselves, invariably get the most from training courses. Thank you in anticipation of your understanding and contribution towards making this a helpful session for everyone. Adapt this training course introduction to suit the situation. It is more relevant to mixed groups of delegates from different experience and skills backgrounds than to groups which have been selected according to closely matching needs and ability levels. This sort of statement can be included at the beginning of course notes, or given as a separate handout (as a sort of philosophical scene-setter), andor explained and discussed verbally with the group. In any event its good also to seek agreement from the group that the concept of making the most constructive use of time and everyones ability to contribute, is the right and proper approach. The message to training course delegates is effectively: that learning new things is an enjoyable rewarding part of life and personal development, and so too is helping others to do the same. resources for training and development - building your own resources - and helping others do so We all need to maintain and develop our value in the marketplace. Then we will always be in demand. Two generations ago, jobs were for life - now some careers last just five or ten years. The world is changing faster. Organisations, and everyone individually, must be able to assess their capabilities, and re-skill when necessary. Trainers, teachers, coaches, managers and leaders are central to these assessing and re-skilling processes. Whether you are a trainer, specialist, manager, leader, entrepreneur, whatever, building your own resources will enable you to maintain and grow your capabilities and value, and to help others do the same. Here are some questions and answers about building training and development resources. building training and development resources (I am grateful to Dawn Barclay of Potential Developments for raising the subject of building personal resources, prompting this additional section and the QampA format.) Q. What do we mean by resources in the context of learning and development A. Resources are - materials and tools of various types, which: describe define explain summarise teach andor enable the acquisition, improvement, or delivery of - skills knowledge methods techniques attitude andor behaviour and thereby, performance, results, fulfilment, well-being, and other good outcomes. Resources can therefore be all sorts of things. For example, a single tiny inspirational quotation is a resource. And a big organisational learning and development manual is a resource. More example of resources are: teambuilding games or exercises testing instruments for individuals and teams (psychometrics and other assessments) guides to a concepts or theories or models spreadsheets or other analytical tools case studies and best practice examples (good case studies are always in demand) samples and examples - of anything relevant to your field or specialism templates and forms surveys and especially survey results statistics and reports contracts and legal documents manuals and guides specifications and project briefs plans of all sorts diagrams, pictures, cartoons books, magazines, journals, newsletters and newspapers (especially newspaper cuttings) films, videos and clips pieces of music puzzles, tricks, and games quizzes and questions and answers websites or a webpages (favourites or links) CDs and DVDs physical props - real samples, or props as metaphors like a hammer or a lemon items of curiosity and collectibles - diversity and history are powerful perspecti ves for teaching and learning personal contacts, or a network of contacts - yes people are resources too. والقائمة تطول. Anything which helps you andor others to learn or improve is a resource . The most powerful resources are those which enable significant relevant improvement quickly and easily - whether for yourself or for others, and especially for others. Q. Who canshould build resources - just trainers and teachers - or everyone A. Everyone can and should build their personal learning and development resources. If you are a trainer, teacher, coach, manager or leader, you will already be building resources of various sorts to help yourself and to help others. If your work does not obviously involve helping and developing others, it could do one day, and meanwhile you canshould build resources to develop your own capabilities and your market value. Q. Why build your personal resources A. Because we all need to learn and develop in order to maintain our personal relevance and value. As we grow we have increasing opportunities to help others, and whether you pursue these opportunities as an informal mentor, or in a formal people-development or leadership role, you will be more helpful and valued if you have good resources. Having good resources gives you a greater chance of providing answers, solutions, ideas, examples and tools. People who build personal resources tend to attract respect and followers. Resources are also tools which enable positive change. People who have resources and know how to use them become to central to any group or organised activity. Consider the many people who dont really bother to keep or collect or refine personal resources. To whom do these people turn when they need help. They turn to the ones with the resources. Q. What about raw and finished resources A. Note: Permissions and attributions are significant in the use of certain resources. The difference between raw and finished resources is important: A raw resource is anything you think will be useful but is not yet refined or focused for a particular purpose. A raw resource is not yet packaged or re-written or presented in a polished way. It might be an idea written in a notebook. A cutting from a newspaper or magazine is a simple example of a raw resource. A book, from which you might later extract data or excerpts or quotes, is also a simple example of a raw resource. An old photocopied diagram is a raw resource. And more up-to-date, so is a webpage from Wikipedia, or a slideshow full of useful facts, research, statistics and graphs. Often you will not know precisely what a particular resource will eventually be used for. You might only need a small part of it. Within reason, its easy to keep and store resources these days because many resources are already digitised, and most resources that are not digitised can be. Resources can be refined, focused, packaged or re-packaged, extracted, updated, re-oriented - whenever and however you need them. Given todays modern desktop editing and publishing technologies, even the rawest of resources can swiftly be converted into effective finished resources. This is even easier when you have a designer or creative agency at your disposal. Not all raw resources are converted into learning and development aids: Many raw resources find their way into reports, business plans, sales presentations, or into the systems of organisations and teams. Some raw resources find their way into best selling books. Other resources help to make the ethos and strategies of world-beating new corporations. The expression was: Knowledge is Power. The truth is now: Resources are Empowering Start building your resources now. Q. What formats and types of media are best A. Raw resources can be in any format and media. Convert them into a format useful for keeping and finding them if you can do so easily. Finished resources need to be in a format and media type appropriate and friendly for the audience or learners or users . The format and media of finished resources should also be appropriate for your delivery or operating strategy . If resources are refined and developed they can become an offering or business in their own right. Many information-based websites began in this way. The modern digital age provides wide-ranging possibilities for the production and offering of finished resources. Mobile technology especially offers amazing potential for the delivery of finished resources. Ultimately consider your audienceusers needs, and ensure your chosen media works well for your operating methods and strategy. Q. Where can you find resources A. Resources can be found everywhere. The web, especially websites offering reliable reference materials and tools. University websites are usually an excellent source of reliable resources. Libraries - although nowadays much under-used, libraries are fantastic places for resources. Bookshops and online booksellers, including used books, which can be remarkably inexpensive. Institutes and associations and societies. Every field or trade has its own governing or representative organisation. These tend to be centres of expertise and knowledge. Most have their own libraries too. Work tools that you use or create - spreadsheets and templates especially - can be very useful resources for the future. Many resources come free and very easy, for example, ironically, junk mail can be a useful source of good and bad examples of all sorts of business and communications. Training courses and classes of all sorts naturally contain many resources that can be re-used, adapted and re-cycled. Resources of a socialhistorical or amusing nature can be found easily and cheaply at Sunday car-boot markets or jumble sales, or when you next clear out an old attic or your childhood toybox. Use your imagination. Training and teaching becomes immensely more enjoyable when quirky (but still relevant) props and materials are introduced into proceedings. That last point illustrates the wide range of things which can be resources. Not all resources must be academic and business-like many can be entertaining, fun and quirky. Avoid habitually using only the web for resources. Only a fraction of the worlds knowledge and information is on the world wide web. Often the best and resources are found off the beaten track so to speak, especially if you seek resources in a particularly specialised field. Be creative, imaginative and original. Q. How can resources be developed A. Your personal resources - whether for yourself or for helping others - can be an extension of you and how you want to be, and what you seek to become. So try to develop your resources so that they say something about you. كن انتقائيا. You obviously cant keep everything of potential use or youd not have time to do anything else. Devise a way of keeping resources which is manageable and searchable. Chucking everything into a big cardboard box is probably better than not collecting anything at all, but there are better ways of organising things in terms of space and finding what you need later. Devise a system that works for you. Develop your resources like you would build a team or organisation around you, to help you achieve your aims and goals in life. Develop resources that will help you to go where you want. Imagine to yourself: If I were doing my ideal future job what sort of personal resources would I need Build your resources to fit your aims. تعطي لنفسك الوقت. A world-beating (aim high) set of resources in any field takes a while to build. In a few months you could be better resourced than anyone you know personally in your field. In a year or two you could be better resourced in your field than anyone else anywhere. This is achievable if you focus and truly put your mind to the task. You can, as the saying goes, stand on the shoulders of giants. Q. What about permissions and attributions A. Since copyright law is complex and cannot be covered in depth quickly and easily, here broadly are some simple guidelines for using resources in the context of learning and development: If you wish to use any resource created by someone else you must consider whether you should seek permission for your particular usage. Many resources, especially if extracted in part, are free to use for teaching and training and self-development, however if you publish or sell material (intellectual property - IP as commonly called) which belongs to somebody else, then this would normally require permission and perhaps licensing and payment. In general, the more you exploit somebody elses IP, then quite understandably the more likely that the somebody will require something in return. Showing some trainees a newspaper cutting to illustrate a point on a training course would be highly unlikely to attract any issues copyright or permission. On the other hand, using a 5,000 word training guide written by someone else, in your own training manual, without suitable permission from the writer, is not a good thing to do and could create a potential liability for you. If in doubt ask. And if you cannot ask then take some time to understand copyright law as it applies in your situation, (there are free guides to copyright law available on the web) and make your own judgement. The use of material without proper permission andor attribution undermines the credibility and integrity of the user, and can lead to more serious problems if an IP owner considers that their rights have been seriously breached. That said, permissions and attributions can generally be resolved if approached positively and sensibly. Whatever, there are countless resources which attract no liability at all, so if you find a great resource but it contains challenging IP implications, then find something else to use instead. Q. What about accuracy - checking and researching - and currency (being up-to-date) A. Accuracy and reliability are very important aspects of teachingtraining resources. Check your facts. Do not rely on the web alone for crucial data. The web can be wrong - and if the web is wrong on one page, it can be wrong on other pages too, given the tendency for web-based information to be copied. Books can be wrong too of course, but good reference books are generally far more reliable than the web. A useful approach to gathering information resources is to use the web for the bulk of the research, and then to check the crucial facts in a suitable reliable reference book. Certain resources are time-sensitive - that is to say, they become obsolete or unhelpful or worse, if not updated. Conversely, many other resources are timeless. It also depends on your usage. A 1995 guide to using the internet would be useless as a modern guide to using the internet, but as a resource to illustrate how the internet changes, it would be quite useful. The ease by which you can establish accuracy and maintain currency (up-to-dateness) should be a big factor in your consideration of what sort of resources to collect. The area in which you work has a bearing on these aspects: Certain areas - like law, finance, safety, for example - are strongly sensitive to whether resources are current. Other disciplines - like motivation and coaching - are far less sensitive to whether resources are current, but are arguably more sensitive to whether resources are entertaining and unique. Accuracy and reliability are important for all resources, unless the obsolete or inaccurate nature of the resource is the purpose of its use (for irony, example of how not to.., etc). Currency (up-to-dateness) of resources is crucial for certain materials and tools, but not so for others. Use your judgement. Be aware of the pitfalls, and avoid them by considering currency and accuracy when you gather and develop your resources. Q. What about building connections with experts A. As suggested above, people are resources too. Experts and good quality people of all sorts can help you build more and better resources. They can help you adapt and develop resources, and give vital feedback when you wish to expand your activities. Experts and good quality people can also help you with using and implementing your activities and plans. This item doesnt focus on the value of people networks and networking, because thats big different subject, nevertheless, the development of contacts is an important part of your own development, so try to do it. Successfully building and maintaining good connections with experts and good quality people must be based on your giving them what they need in return, whatever that might be (different people want and need different things - provided its legal and ethical). So ask experts and good contacts what they want from you and what you can do to help them. People who take only, and give nothing in return, never build and sustain good connections with anyone. Consider that high-achieving expert people are not generally interested in money or material gain. They are more interested in growth and self-actualization motivators. See the theories of Maslow. Herzberg. etc. Building and maintaining good quality relevant resources will help you become independent and self-sufficient - in work and life. This is because people who have great resources tend to be: Well-developed individuals - knowledgeable, skilled, up-to-date - with answers to other peoples questions. Capable of teaching, training, mentoring and leading others. Capable of enabling and assisting change in groups and organisations - using clever tools and materials. Able to convey to others the enjoyment and advantages of always seeking and finding answers and solutions. Resources help answer questions, which is one of the essential needs of life and work. Resources - of one sort or another - are generally required for improvement in anything - whether a small improvement or realisation for a single individual, or the development and launch of the mightiest corporation. If you build effective relevant resources, you naturally become more relevant and effective yourself. tips for starting your own new training business Here are some simple tips for starting your own new training business. Much more detailed business start-up help is available on other pages, listed below. These are just a few important tips especially for starting a new training businesses. When choosing the type of training to offer think carefully about it and avoid making assumptions or being drawn into too many areas. Starting your own training business is in some ways a simple transition from being employed as a trainer, coach, team leader, manager, etc. however a big difference is now that you have to find the work before you can do it. On this point, your previous employer can easily be a prime prospect for you. Even if you leave on less than perfect terms, a previous employer is a good opportunity for securing freelance training work, not least because when people leave an organization, there is usually a gap and a period of uncertainty regarding the leavers previous responsibilities. Lots of employers fail to ask leavers if they can fill in for a while on a contract basis. Ask. In any event, especially if you were well-regarded know their systems, youll be a safe choice for them if they need some help, so keep in touch and (assuming you are not immediately stacked out with work from other customers) let your previous employer know you are happy to fill gaps in provision after youve gone. Expect to negotiate a (sometimes significantly) higher freelance day-rate compared with your previous employed wage. Organizations account for ad-hoc freelance training quite differently to employed staff costs. Many newly self-employed trainers offer themselves too cheaply. See the negotiation page. If in doubt, see what they offer before you suggest a rate - you could be very pleasantly surprised, particularly if they are in a bit of a panic and need a safe pair of hands quickly. Aside from your previous employer(s), finding new training contracts or selling training courses entails marketing and advertising - in competition with others operating in the same market place. This could be a new and significant consideration for you. Marketing and selling training is different to designing and delivering training, and involves different issues. You must now consider what you can market and sell successfully, as well as it being something that you can design and deliver successfully. This requires you to consider the market place, not just the quality of your training. So when you choose what training to offer and especially how to package, describe and deliver it, ask yourself questions based on the following points, so that you develop training types, services, offerings and delivery which: you can offer with very appealing uniqueness and passion ideally have good and increasing demand are not strongly served by competitors are relevant to industries you are comfortable with, and can be marketed in a very specific focused way, to decision-makers that you can reach cost-effectively. Whether a website and online marketing will feature strongly in your business approach or not, Google Trends, and Googles Adwords keywords tracker (to access it open an Adwords account), are two excellent tools for evaluating online search trends and relative volumes in training (and for anything that people look for), which greatly assists answering some of the questions above, especially understanding demands, trends and what people are looking for and how they describe it (all of which can be quite different to what you imagine). From a vital personal perspective, also look at the passion-to-profit processtemplate on this website because this helps consider how best to combine your greatest personal potential with a business proposition. You may choose not to use the process in detail, but consideration of its underlying meaning is fundamentally important towards building a sustainable thriving business in any area of productservice provision. Choose a business name carefully. Many people successfully use their own name along with a generic word or a few words related to training, because: this usually avoids any future problems with copyright (especially the potentially disastrous and easily made mistake of breaching someone elses rights or trademark) and it says that you are the boss and have the confidence and integrity to have your name as the business name. If you choose a clever or obscure business name, think very carefully about it because it will have risks (like this website name, which might have failed without the luxury of many years to become established), either or both in terms of copyright protectionbreach, andor misinterpretation or confusion. Although copyright and trademark law is complex, broadly descriptive business names are less easy to protect, and also less likely to breach someone elses trademark. Non-descriptive business names need to be checked against existing use, especially registered names, which means that when secured they tend to be easier to protect. The UK government intellectual property website is a useful information and reseach resource. Contrary to lots of advice youll see from financial and legal folk, becoming freelance (self-employed in other words) is very easy in terms of legal and regulatory set-up. I refer to the UK. In some other nations it will be a little more difficult, in others even easier. In the UK you do not need a limited company. You do not need a VAT number. You simply need to inform your tax office, which actually is a good source of advice about starting up. If you have plans of substantial scale then seek qualified legal and financial advice, but for many new training business start-ups a freelanceself-employed approach is perfectly adequate for the authorities and the market place, as well as being very quick and inexpensive for the freelancer. Public liability insurance is advisable because without the protection of a limited company you have unlimited personal liability for any damages arising against you. Many customers and venues insist on trainers having public liability insurance anyway. Its not necessarily very expensive, and is different to professional liability insurance of the sort that lawyers and doctors and high-powered consultants typically need, when potential liabilities run to poundmillions rather than a few poundthousands. That said, insurance is a personal matter for you to decide and resolve as you think reasonable. I merely offer general pointers. When starting a new business, especially from a marketingadvertising viewpoint, its usually more effective to focus on a small number of strong unique specialisms - or even just a single very powerful offering - than to offer a one-stop shop or wide catch-all range. A good specialist will usually beat a widely-spread generalist in any single area. Networking is a useful marketing method for new businesses - look at the processes for effective business networking. For starting a new training business see also the tips and methods for new business start-up and planning explained in other relevant sections of this website, notably: