The real purpose of training!!!!!!!!!

These days many companies are conducting training sessions for different level employees. These programmes range from honing IT skills to inculcating leadership/teamwork techniques. Hence outsourcing training modules is the new mantra.

However what is the real need of these training programmes???????

Is it just climbing the bandwagon to copy your competitors or something else??????

Training is a tool to enrich intellectual capital. It should be designed in such a way so that it matches the strategic goals and objectives of an organization and at the same time hones employee skills.

After carrying out organization, person and task analysis a suitable training programme should be designed. A suitable mode of transfer should be selected which could accomplish the training objectives. Feedback should be taken and ROI should be calculated.(As any investment without a suitable return is considered a waste)

Hence TRAINING should not be a liability; rather it should be a characteristic of a 'LEARNING ORGANIZATION' which gives it a competitive edge in the long run.