The document provides 10 tips for making training and development initiatives more effective for organizations. The tips include ensuring training needs are identified, choosing appropriate training providers, creating an environment where employees are motivated to learn and apply new skills, setting clear objectives, measuring outcomes, involving managers, discussing expectations, getting feedback, and integrating training into an overall HR development process. The goal is to help training transfer useful information to employees and positively impact job performance.

1. 10 tips to make Training and
Development REALLY WORK for
your organization
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2. Inspirational Moment
• Running a Learning and
Development Organization, we
understand the grey areas
between effective training and it
being truly effective at the level of
the organizational workforce.
• It is little wonder many companies
feel ‘ripped off’ when the training
fails to provide the results they
sought.
• Disheartening as it may seem,
many good employee training
initiatives do not result in the
transfer of immediately useful
information to your workforce.

3. 1. Ensure The Need Requires Training And Development
Initiatives
A thorough needs and skills analysis conducted could help identify what’s working and
what’s not in the organization. This determines the real need for employee training
and development. Many issues in organizations boil down to mismatches in
temperament and talent for a required job role and also gaps in communicating
expectations to employees.

4. 2. Decide On Timely Training Interventions Choosing An
Appropriate Training Provider
Scheduling timely training sessions
increase the pace of change,
productivity, profitability and much
more with a trusted training company.
Regardless of a well-known name or a
smaller training provider ensure there
is flexibility and understanding for a
productive relationship, so that you
would love to work with them more
than once.

5. 3. Create an employee “training-and-development-ready”
environment.
Make it public and communicate why the new skills, skill enhancement or information
is important. Take steps to motivate employees to attend the program. Also ensure
the employee understands the context of how the training could positively affect his
job performance.

6. 4. Check The Relevance Of The Initiatives To The Skill You Want
The Employee To Develop
Asking an employee to attend a session on communication and feedback, when it is
critical that he updates his technical skills instead, is a big mistake. The initiative will be
regarded as mostly a waste of time and the potential learning opportunity is lost.

7. 5. Set Clear, Specific Training Objectives For The Provider And
Review The Same Jointly With The Trainee’s Supervisors Or
Managers
The vital key parts to a beneficial training objective are desired behavior, standard of
performance and conditions. Ensure that the training provider understands these in
explicit detail. Being on the same page will only enhance the effectiveness of the
training program.

8. 6. Ensure The Training And Development Module Has Specified
Objectives With Measurable Outcomes Built Into It.
The employee training initiative must be designed to state the objectives clearly with
measurable outcomes. Determine that the developed module drives the employee to
develop the skill outlined in the objectives.

9. 7. Arrange for managers and supervisors to attend the training
session either before or along with the employees.
Immediate superiors need to
know and understand the skills to
be attained and why. Managers
can aid the trainees as a role
model for appropriate behavior
and skill. An environment which
facilitates application of the
training and regular assessment
and feedback cycles can also be
maintained by the managers.

10. 8. Have one-to-one discussions between managers and
employees before the sessions.
What an employee hopes to learn and his concerns must be discussed and duly noted.
Identify roadblocks in mindsets beforehand and address them. Any expected obstacles
an employee may face while applying the training to the workplace should also be
noted.

11. 9. Do a 360 degree appraisal of the training results.
Get a multisource assessment of the training of the employee post training from
subordinates, peers, and supervisors. It should also include a self-assessment that will
help construct a better view of the training and its effect on behavior, learning and
cumulative impact on the organizational performance.

12. 10. Construct an overall Human Resource Development
Process.
A comprehensive HRD process should be designed that can keep the wheels of
performance improvement turning. Training will be one component of the process,
facilitating incremental or exponential organizational advances. This process will make
sure that such interventions will not be sporadic stand-alone events to exhaust
training budgets but an integral part of organizational strategy.

13. • These steps of course are
loose guidelines and do not
fall into the one-size-fits-all
category. In our experience, it
boils down to individual
needs and having real belief
in the value of training.
• And while at it, don’t forget
to enjoy the journey of
learning

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