Business training is a fairly important concept, yes? Start with these two pieces of logic:
- Great places to work: By some measure, the main thing that separates a ‘great place to work’ and a ‘good place to work’ is the availability of training.
- What employees want: In multiple studies, people indicate a major aspect of any job for them is ‘opportunities for growth.’ That might imply ‘a fatter salary,’ yes, but it also means a chance to learn new skills and gain advantages in a workforce.
Here’s the problem: most organizations don’t actually care about business training. There are a couple of reasons for this, best I can tell:
- Business training lives within HR: Most senior decision-makers could care less about HR.
- “Train them so they’ll leave?” Many executives operate according to “us vs. them” mentalities — it’s all about corporate values and enemies — and so they assume they’ll spend money to train a person, and said person will then go use that knowledge with a competitor.
- Business training is an expense without a clear ROI: Expenses without clear ROI are the first things to get axed in any business slowdown.
Here’s where we’ve arrived at: business training is important, but most companies could…
