Employee Training Strategies

Improper training can cost your business millions of dollars per year per 1,000 employees! Let that sink in to understand why training evaluations are necessary. Evaluations act as a checkpoint to measure and analyze whether employee training programs achieve the intended objectives. In other words, they assess what’s working and what’s not so that you...

Do you ever wonder if your training is actually making an impact? That moment when you finish a session and think, did they really learn something, or are they just being polite? That’s the fear we all face, right? You could be wasting time, resources, and money without realizing it. And when leadership asks for...

I’ve sat through more “training sessions” than I can count. Some with overdesigned decks. Others with facilitators who thought reading bullet points was teaching. Almost all had the same result: by the next morning, nobody remembered a thing. I’ve seen companies pour money, time, and energy into an employee training plan that looked solid on...

Most training modules fail before a single employee opens them.  Not because the topic is wrong, but because the build process skips the steps that actually determine whether learning happens: a clear objective, a format that fits the audience, content scoped tightly enough to be retained, and a way to measure whether any of it...

Non-profit organizations face several volunteer training challenges.  A lack of training funds, geographically dispersed members, and the absence of standard training departments can all contribute to this.  And some volunteers join an organization without even knowing what is expected of them. Coordinating volunteer activities, inconsistencies in efforts, disorganization, volunteer burnout, and lack of time are...

Imagine receiving feedback that says, ‘Your work is consistently late and careless.’ ⏰? Now picture a different approach: ‘Let’s find ways to help you meet deadlines.The first employee evaluation comment can demoralize even the hardest worker, while the second fosters collaboration and improvement. This distinction can make or break a team’s performance. It highlights the...

An in-house training program can save you time and costs on employee training. It makes the training more specific while keeping the learners focused on real issues. It also offers the convenience of customization and scheduling while fostering team-building exercises. You must be thinking all this sounds good. It really does. But have you ever...