Stages of staff training

Modern businesses confront with new conditions and obstacles in quickly changing market that demands from managers active actions and correct corporate planning. Planning and calculating the future efficiency of the company, the company managers should consider such an important factor as staff training. Staff training is a set of measures intended for reinforcing and developing personnel proficiency and skills. Results of successful staff training are not only improved personnel performance and grown profits, but also increased level of corporate culture and solid team. Staff training development is an essential preliminary strategy of the company aimed to avoid problems and difficulties caused by proactive planning. To put it together, the company can get the following advantages when implementing staff training program:

• better motivations of employees
• increased efficiency of processes and task performance
• better developed strategies and policies
• reduced employee turnover
• conditions for implementing new products/services
• reduced risks and better risk management
• high employee moral and improved corporate culture

In big and medium organizations the process of staff training is a complex of issues, and requires a lot of resources to be involved for successful project accomplishment. In this case training staff process can be represented as a project, and the project manager can use VIP Task Manager to perform tasks and manage the project. The manager can create the following task group in VIP Task Manager to describe staff training stages:

• Estimate skills and needs of staff
• Choose training technique
• Provide support, incentives and instructions

These three stages of staff training process include a number of tasks that can be assigned to project team. For example, the task group 'Estimate skills and needs of staff' has two tasks:

• Identifying skills that require to be developed and trained
• Defining staff preferences

For more detailed task view the project manager can add notes and comment to the tasks, and so the project team will know all details, and can leave feedback on the tasks. The project manager can set start date, due dates and estimated time for task accomplishment. VIP Task Manager has built-in Calendar that can be applied as a project planner and scheduler. All tasks will be displayed on Calendar in dairy, weekly, monthly or yearly view.

The task 'b. Defining staff preferences' implies an organizing of questionnaire survey that will reveal employees preferences and desires concerning training. The project manager can make questionnaire survey, and then enclose all application forms to the task. This will make the training comprehensive. VIP Task Manager allows to attach any file or link to a file/web resource to a task.

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