Aligning strategy and training
Training and performance
Training means giving new or current employees the skills that they need to perform their jobs. The task is to identify the employee behaviors the firm will require to execute its strategy, and from that deduce what competencies employees will need.
One survey found that “establishing a linkage between learning and organizational performance ”…was the number-one pressing issue facing training professionals.”
Ensure training translates into improved performance
Define training purpose
Have company strategies drive the training
Check with mangers on the training success
Ask “how are we doing.”
Training ranks higher than appraisal and feedback and just below goal setting in its effect on productivity. Companies spend on average $1,103 per employee for training per year and offer each about 28 hours of training. Some experts use the phrase “workplace learning and performance” in lieu of training to emphasize that training aims to boost both employee learning and organizational performance.