(Newswire.net — August 3, 2018) — Business owners know that employees are their most valuable assets. Employees are everything to a business: they represent it to customers and clients, they manage its day-to-day operations, and they are a huge factor in the quality of service or product that a business creates. The highest-quality materials, smartest business locations, and greatest ideas can be torpedoed by ineffective employees, while the best employees can elevate your business to new levels of success.
But great employees don’t always just show up at your business’ door. In most cases, they must be cultivated through proper training.
The risks and rewards of employees
A good employee can make a world of difference in your business. Great employees mean great products, great services, and great relationships with consumers and other businesses. But employees don’t exist in a vacuum: everything from their training to their happiness can affect your company. Yes, happiness: companies with happy employees outperform those with unhappy ones by 20 percent!
As large of an impact as a good employee can make, the impact of a bad one can be even greater. Mistakes and poor work from employees can do long-term damage to the quality of your business and its reputation with customers, clients, the competition, and the community. Studies even show that one bad employee can have a ripple effect, damaging the productivity and quality of others.
Worse yet, a bad employee can increase the risk of an accident or other disastrous incidents on your commercial property. From physical injuries to sexual harassment lawsuits, bad employees can wreak havoc on the business that you’ve worked so hard to put together. All this after spending up to $240,000, studies show, just onboarding this employee! Don’t let this happen. Make sure that your employees are carefully vetted and, once on your staff, fully trained in every area that matters to your business.
Training: your best bet for getting the most out of your employees
Hiring the right employees is key, no matter what business you’re in. It’s your job as an employer to look for the most qualified, enthusiastic, and talented employees available. There’s a lot of great advice out there on how to do this, but the hiring process isn’t why we’re here today. Today, we’re here to talk about the next step: turning those good employees into great ones by developing them to their full potential.
Every business should consider investing in two types of training. First, businesses should work with employees to train them fully on the tasks that they handle regularly, helping them to learn and perfect their on-the-job skills. This category also includes essential safety training, which will reduce the risk of accidents on your premises. Second, a business should be careful to train its employees in essential workplace conduct. Services like TrainingABC allow employers to offer a curriculum of training courses online. Human resources training in areas like sexual harassment, cultural diversity training, and on-the-job conduct can go a long way toward protecting your business from lawsuits and dangers. It’s the right thing to do, and it will also limit your liability as an employer.
The importance of job-related skill training is particularly significant in the tech industry. There are so many different programming languages and frameworks that even skilled computer engineers and programmers will need to brush up on old things and learn new ones in order to tackle the tasks their latest job asks of them. That’s why it’s key to invest in angular training, or training for whatever frameworks and languages your employees will need to be familiar with in order to succeed. Experts agree that employee training is essential for shoring up weaknesses and improving consistency in work.
But no matter what industry your business is making its way in, one thing is clear: you need highly-trained employees in order to succeed. So make your employees better by investing in training!