WHY FIBER OPTIC TECHNICIAN(FOT) TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT MATTERS

Due to the rapid and huge developments in information technology, the amount of information requested by the users and thus carried on the transmission lines has increased.?

The use of optical fibers in telecommunications, television networks, instrumentation, data transmission, and distribution is becoming increasingly important and widespread instead of wires and coaxial cables.?

In addition to the lack of available space in already congested channels in large cities, the increase in costs and demand for high‐speed transmission channels are the reasons for this change.

The need for fiber optic professionals arises because of the increasing investment in the fiber optic infrastructure.

FOT training is essential for an organization's success. It is important to ensure your technician's skills, abilities, and knowledge levels are being regularly updated.?

?There are a variety of reasons for FOT training and development, including:

• Onboarding new hires
• ?Individual employee development plans, where you are training to fill a skill or knowledge gap, address a performance issue, or prepare the technician to take on greater managerial and/or leadership responsibilities.
• ?Succession planning, where you have identified high-potentials and are grooming the next generation of leaders
• ?Addressing technology changes and providing the skills and knowledge? needed to leverage new and emerging technologies
• ?Addressing legal and/or regulatory issues and changes
• To overcome the shortages of fiber optic employees by providing training qualifications accredited by the Fiber Optic Association (FOA)
• Helping your team address a range of issues and opportunities around growth and change, including helping the team and organization respond and adapt to structural change in the economy

Key benefits for organizations that make FOT training? a priority include the following:

- Increased Productivity

Timely and relevant training helps boost the productivity of the FOT technicians and the organization as a whole. By closing skills, knowledge, and performance gaps, and arming your technicians with new ideas, best practices, and skills that they can put into practice in their technical jobs right away, their competence, ability, and confidence levels increase. As a result, these technicians are able to make better decisions and do their jobs smarter and more efficiently within a shorter period of time.

- Return on Investment (ROI)

When Organizations prioritize training their FOT, and implementing it in a thoughtful and deliberate manner, a company can benefit from measurable ROI. You can measure for impact, for qualitative and quantitative ROI, and there are various ways to do so. For example, you can do pre- and post-training assessments and measure the improvement, the technicians perform better in a post than a pre-training assessment;

This can be translated into financial return when you calculate the value of saved time, increased productivity, increased sales, and better handling of fiber equipment to avoid wastage.? It is important for organizations to view training of FOT as an investment, not an expense, and to leverage training of FOT for the achievement of business/organizational goals. Investment in FOT training and development should be regarded as a capital investment where you will look for ROI.

As we continue to rely on high-speed internet, streaming services, and data-intensive applications, the significance of fiber optics in shaping our connected future cannot be overstated. As technology advances and our data needs grow, fiber optics will remain at the forefront, ensuring that our world stays seamlessly connected and our information flows faster than ever before.