Today's rapid change & competitive marketplace has created importance for behavioral competencies. Let it be any type of organisation/business knowledge, skills & abilities are vital. hence organisations are spending lot of resources in learning & development to keep their human capital agile. but employees participation is one of the biggest challenge in such initiatives.
For lack of employees participants in training sessions have many reasons; may be training content, design, module, employees priorities, learning needs, motivation & many more. only improving training attendance will not make it effective. to make it effective kindly address following points;
1. Gather information/Identify training needs:
Gather information on Organisation needs-identify employees skills needed at present & future organisation and identify employees skill gaps gaps. Partner with business head and employees in data gathering. Get employees feelings, what they want to learn and priorities learning needs.
2. Training content, design, module: look at the training delivery methods. if employees are not attending classroom training get away from it. make it flexible & available online training module. make it available on mobile devise.
3. Relate it to career advancement: communicate training is for career advancement. encourage to learn future strength. show them preparing them to claim career ladder within organisation.
4. Reward milestones: make training activities as a important milestones in their career growth. reward them with cash prize, a gift card, a certification of recognition after each training.
5. Value Feedback: There is always room for improvements. Treat employees as your customer and get employees opinion & feedback improve on it.
6. Create learning culture: Encourage employees to increase knowledge, skills & abilities as part of their regular work & share knowledge across organisation.
above all management support & guidance is very important in training & development initiative.