Training - A Means for Motivation and Retention

Employee morale is a deciding factor for an organization's success. Employees who are insecure, low on morale often suffer from low productivity. If for some reason, an entire organization's performance is lackluster, then there might be a serious issue underneath. Such underlying problems can be resolved with appropriate training programs.

Training for Employee Motivation and Retention  

Although, training is an integral part of an employee's growth and an organization's development, not many companies feel the need to invest in good training programs. In fact, any prospective plan for training often counters resistance from employees and managers. Both feel that training will consume a lot of their productive time. In reality, training is crucial because it improves productivity. There are some scenarios in which training becomes absolutely essential. Some of these are:

• Employees show dismal performance.
• Employees lack certain skills.
• Organization adopts a new technology, for which employees need to be trained.
• Employees are to be assigned different role/responsibility.
• To test a new Performance Management System
• Certain event, activity has had an unpleasant effect upon the morale of the employees.

Types of Training Topics  

Training topics are often organization-specific. However, there are some general topics upon which every organization should provide training. These include:

• Communication
• Ethics
• Public Speaking
• Workplace Safety
• Sexual Harassment

An organization can take the help from HR and OD consultants to chalk out an appropriate training program for its employees. They can either invite an external trainer to impart training or ask one of its members to contribute. One great idea is to assign the responsibility of training to its own employees. Employees can share their skills or knowledge acquired at seminars, conferences that they attended. This gives an opportunity for employees to enhance their knowledge base. Besides, they also develop a respect for each others skill set. Such training programs boost employee morale to a great extent. After the training, it is a good idea to save the training material on a shared network or company's intranet, wherein all employees can have an access. 

For any training program to succeed, it is imperative that all concerned individuals must actively participate. Employees must be convinced that the training program can add value to their profile and enhance their career prospects. Besides, they will get a feeling that the organization is willing to share information with them. This results in better performance and a healthy employer-employee relation.

The Fundamentals of Developing Business Leadership

To compliment leadership in any business outfit, a synchronization of character, a synchronization of value and a synchronization of the organizations determined mission vouches for the credibility and longevity of the business. Ultimately value recognition of the organization is ideally represented when the employees, all the levels of management, the organizations brand value and the mission and vision are sustainably bound together.

Empowerment is an indispensable factor in begetting productivity and in boosting the outline and scope of value based leadership. It is also very important to understand that the term "values " should not be particularly curated across the organization. Values start right at the top and should ideally be instituted and represented through routine decisions, management -employee interactions and through credible and natural communication in the organization. Feedback, Openness and Transparency on all levels and profiles of management is an essential for value addition.

Having said this, a strategic human resource workforce is a major driver of value based propositions across the organization.

A process that includes the use of OD consultants in order to develop human resource strategy is referred to as strategic HR. It is basically a different way of doing things and defines an organization's goals and plans. These approaches can be integrated horizontally and vertically in the business strategy. The three propositions for the success of an organization are:

• Human capital that is a major source of competitive advantage
• People implementing the strategic plan
• A systematic approach adapted that defines an organization's goals

The OD Consultants framework define the intentions and plans that are related to the organization's overall considerations. Organizational effectiveness, people management skills, research & development reward and employee satisfaction are key essentials for internal growth and prosperity. There are several companies that offer strategic HR consulting services. They help in chalking out a strategic plan that will effectively work, irrespective of an organization's size and strength.

Strategic human resource management takes care of broad organizational issues that are related to changes in structure and culture, management of change, development of distinctive capabilities, matching resources to future requirements, knowledge management and the organizational effectiveness and performance. It deals with both the development human capital requirements and process of getting things done effectively.

Cerveausys Strategic Consulting Pvt. Ltd. is a premier human resource division located in Pune which specializes in business strategy planning & OD consulting services and has assisted numerous organizations by instituting value propositions across the management through innovative organization development plannings & strategies, solutions, and services.