Why should you make training stick...
Dr. Christie McMullen
Podcaster | Best Selling Author | Keynote Speaker | AIM...Analyze, Improve, Move CEO | Employee Satisfaction Specialist | Training Guru | Presentation Magician | Consultant Extraordinaire | I Make Work Fun
You have two choices in business. You can train your employees well, equipping them to do their jobs beautifully...or you can carve out time, energy, and resources to retrain or hire new employees.
People quit things that aren't fun. It isn't fun to feel ill-equipped to do your job. When people are unequipped to do their jobs well they either leave or need to be trained a second, third, fourth, fifth…you get the picture…time.
Here are a few stats on training employees.
On average, companies spent?$1,111 per employee?on training employees in 2020, compared to $1,286 per employee in 2019. Mid-size companies reported the least training expenses per employee of?$581 in comparison to enterprise ($924) and small business ($1,678) companies.?
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Now money isn’t the only resource you spend on training employees. There is an accountability of the number of hours as well. While the cost per training employee went down, the number of hours of training per employee increased substantially from 42.1 hours to 55.4 hours annually.?
If you want training to be sticky, it needs to be safe, logical, fun, and memorable. All four of these things work together to allow adults to retain information. If you are not doing these four things in all training situations, you are wasting valuable time and resources.
If you need help analyzing your existing systems, improving on them, and moving towards your target of retaining and equipping your employees for success. AIM can help.
By the way...stickers are an incredible way to make people feel valued and appreciated. Trust me, they work...especially the smelly ones.
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1 年Great article to remind us of what it means to feel valued: do I feel safe? is what I am being asked to do logical? has the person asking me to invest my time spent their own time ensuring I will be engaged and having fun while I learn this new task? will this person remember to check in with me to ensure my learning has stuck? Thank you for a great read!
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1 年Most of us have an “inner child“ awaiting stimuli -I love a good, smell-good sticker (i can eventually pass on to my Grandguyz)