The most significant asset for any business is its employees. Most successful organizations are aware of this and understand the importance of investing in their workers. Numerous studies have reported that business that create dedicated employee training and development programs can expect an increase in profits along with an increased level of staff retention. These are vital factors for sustained business growth.
However, hiring new employees creates a significant cost to a business. In fact, Glassdoor estimates that each new hire for a small to medium size business, can represent a cost of up to $4,000. For growing businesses in particular, these costs can add up quickly without guaranteeing a positive impact on your bottom line. Given this, the return-on-investment (ROI) of corporate training can be substantial.
Corporate Training Topics for Employee Development
In recent years, corporate training has emerged as an important business strategy aimed at retaining employees and building a skilled workforce to enhance the organization’s competitiveness. And while most every business can benefit from corporate training, the training topics that can provide the greatest benefits will vary from organization to organization. Some of the most common corporate training topics tend to include:
Leadership Development
The employees you have on staff today might very well become your leaders tomorrow. Given this, it is important to offer leadership training that will develop your employees’ leadership skills early on. In this way, you can provide them with the skills and knowledge they will need to take on future leadership within your organization.
Customer Centricity
Customer centricity training can provide a roadmap for improving the customer experience with your organization and solidifying your company’s advantage over competitors. A customer-centric organization has developed the ability to consider the entirety of the customer journey and can foresee customer needs beyond any single transaction. Customer-centric training reinforces the belief that each employee can impact the customer experience with each decision they make.
Communication
Effective communication training addresses skills in such areas as presentations, individual and group communications, email correspondence, and more. It also covers the differences between communicating with superiors, direct reports, and peers. The most important aspect of communication training is in ensuring that employees can move conversations forward for the benefit of the organization.
Time Management
For every organization, time is a limited and valuable resource. A key for employee success, therefore, is in developing the ability to manage their time effectively. Effective time management can lead to more deadlines being met on time with a higher quality of work. It can also result in less stress. The techniques learned in time management training can offer tools and techniques that will help your employees stay focused and organized and lead to an increase in overall productivity.
Diversity Training
Given the fact that today’s workplace is more diverse than ever, organizations must take steps to create awareness and understanding of diversity issues. Diversity training can help enhance employee knowledge and provide the tools required to embrace diversity in the workplace.
LMS Portals: eLearning for Corporate Training and Employee Development
In the past, the primary approach to corporate training was through the use of classroom-based learning. But in recent years, as cloud technologies have continued to evolve, online learning or “eLearning” has emerged as the preferred method for training programs.
The core technology that supports all types of eLearning programs, including corporate training, is a learning management system, or “LMS”. An LMS is the application used for the development, delivery, and tracking of corporate training programs.
LMS Portals provides a cloud-based, multi-tenant learning management system that allows our clients and partners to launch and manage private eLearning environments (portals) to support corporate training programs. Using our platform, you can “spin up” new instances of the application for each of your unique training audiences. And each portal you launch can have its own unique branding, courses, learning paths, collaboration tools, analytics, and more.
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