Relevance: One Key to Effective Employee Training

Does your job involve developing and delivering employee training, or choosing professional training companies to assist with your employee development needs? If so, it’s essential that you take the time to think about what separate effective instruction that delivers results from development efforts that are destined to fail.

Effective employee training begins with one simple word: relevant. When employees are required to participate in development activities, it’s up to you to establish relevance. Employee development activities can only be successful if the people who are being asked (or told) to participate in them can see the relevance of them.

Think about it this way. How would you answer if an employee were to respond to a request to attend a training session by asking, “What’s in it for me?” The answer to that question – what is in it for the employee – is the solution to determining relevance. Good trainers are able to convey relevance throughout training events by using examples and building value.

By making sure that the training that you provide to your employees is delivered in a way that helps them understand how and why they can benefit from acquiring new knowledge and skills. That’s the best way to ensure that team members develop transferable skills that can enhance their workplace performance and productivity.

This is a guest post by Mary Gormandy White, M.A., SPHR. Mary is the Training Coordinator for Mobile Technical Institute & MTI Business Solutions, where she specializes in human resources, management, and marketing training. She teaches business training seminars in Mobile, AL and provides on-site corporate training and conference presentations throughout the U.S., as well as human resource management consulting services. She is also the author of 101 Human Resource Management Tips in the LifeTips book series

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