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.

HIRING FOR TALENT, TRAINING FOR SKILLS

As someone who is a complete novice in the "talent procurement" industry i am amazed at its versatility and endless possibilities. It seemed to me as a plethora of intricate by lanes peppered by generous doses of pseudo-psychological calculated risks. I thought and thought about ways and means to deepen my understanding of this wonderful subject and here i am......trying to pen down my thoughts. Hoping that somewhere down the line of observing, learning, translating and writing my horizons would slowly but surely widen. Well let’s start at the very beginning. Archita Gupta....MBA Retail...idealistic, sincere, always stressed on academic excellence. Have studied life a science in graduation and my career path seems to show a series of zig-zag jumps. Very soon I would be working for the ‘Handshake Business’ i.e recruitment industry. My selection for this job clearly justifies the title ‘Hire for Talent, Train for Skills’. Being from retail background I am new to the intricacies of the recruitment world and currently being trained to develop suitable skills through my induction programme.

As the world is changing at a very rapid pace employees need proper training programmes to upgrade their skills from time to time. However the effectiveness depends on the inherent talent of the employees.

Just like a juvenile can learn skill of playing various musical instruments if he has talent, similarly an employee can be taught various skills and prove as an asset to an organization.

The organization needs are changing. Initially they required clerks but now they want associates. Hence in the current scenario recruiters are focusing on ‘hiring talent and training for skills’.