Training Management: Employees Will Appreciate It
Everyone who's spoken to a hiring manager has heard the complaint that good people are just too hard to find. The secret is that the reason for this isn't that there aren't any good people. There are plenty of highly skilled and qualified employees in the workforce. They just don't go on the market - they're just too darned happy where they are. A big part of the reason for this is that they didn't necessarily start out as highly skilled and qualified, but were brought to that level through competent business and management coaching.
Many CEO's have a Harvard MBA, but below the CEO level a large percentage of management started out at the bottom working their way up. There is no real truth to the idea that one begins at the bottom and stays there for their career. It is widely recognized that competent training management, often referred to as "on the job training," is one of the primary ways companies increase the value of their in-house talent. This is because that value does not leave the company.
When workers see that a company invests in them, through conferences, seminars, and other forms of training management, they see that they are working for a company that cares about them. This is one of the main reasons that they don't go on the market, looking for another company that probably won't treat them too.
The other dirty secret is that training management leaves a company whose employees don't know exactly what they're worth. Unlike the Harvard MBA, they don't have a piece of paper that suddenly makes them much more expensive to hire. At the same time, they are often just as motivated, or more so, after taking on the job training (while being paid!) than someone slugging through academia. This is one many reasons companies are eager for training management.
Another function of a company is change management, just as important as training management. Would that the market never moved! That once we designed a product, we could keep selling it forever. But the fact is that change is a constant part of our world, and even a product as venerable as Coke gets a redesign from time to time - not to mention the ad campaigns. Through continuous management, a company is able to keep its workforce very new.
Diplomas last forever, but changes occur continuously in the world of business. But even Harvard sees change occur all around it and must adapt. Change management helps your company stay current in an ever-changing world. Such management helps your business in the lead in the marketplace and help you develop employees to be the best they can be.
Hiring managers tend to say that good people are very hard to find. That is because there aren't any good people available. The highly skilled and qualified employees are very happy where they are, and don't go to market. The reason is that they did not start that way but were elevated to that position through competent business and management coaching. Thus, employees prefer to remain in such an organization that invests in them through seminars, conferences and other forms of training management. Another function of a company is change management, through which the workforce is kept very new. Thus companies stay on top and make their employees strong.
Published July 20th, 2007
Filed in Business, Management
