For growth within a business, it’s the responsibility of HR to work with departments across the organisation and to maintain the efforts of training and development for employees. Regardless of their position, every employee can benefit from some degree of training and development, which ultimately creates a shared knowledge hub for the entire company to utilise.
HR’s Role in Training & Development
HR plays a crucial role in the company’s training and development efforts, not just in one particular department, but across the entire team.
They help to identify the needs and wants of staff members who might have certain gaps in their skillset, and they encourage a supportive learning environment that helps facilitate growth not just for employees but for the business in general.
Some of the key responsibilities that HR has when it comes to training and development include:
- Assessing Needs – Analysing employee performance and gathering feedback to know what training and development is required.
- Delivering Tailored Training Programmes – Developing tailored training programmes and enabling the successful delivery of these through mentorship, online courses, and in-person workshops.
- Performance Monitoring – Tracking the performance of employees beyond the training to see what success has been had and what could be improved.
- Career Development Planning – Supporting employees in identifying what direction they’d like to take their careers in, offering personalised development plans.
Not only are they responsible for all of this, but they liaise between managers and their employees and help with budget planning to ensure every person gets an equal opportunity for T&D.
Benefits of Employee Training & Development
Improve Employee Performance
A great benefit you get with employee training and development is seeing your employees grow and improve their efforts, both within the job they have, but also how they represent the company too.
Reduced Errors & Costs
Any way that your HR department can help to reduce costly mistakes is a benefit and, with T&D, you’ll be able to mitigate the errors and costly fixes that often come with it when things go wrong.
Adaptability to Change
Having an adaptability to change is important, especially within business right now. It’s important that you have flexibility as a business to move with the times and stay fluid in order to maintain relevancy.
Career Development Opportunities
With employee growth comes career development opportunities. Having those opportunities is a great motivator for employees and one that will help improve retention rates too.
Positive Company Image
Anything that you can do to improve a company’s image is important, and one way to do that is through training and development. When you’re seen to be helping your employees grow within their roles, it attracts others who might wish to apply for future roles that come up in the business thereby making recruitment a lot easier.
How to Help Maintain Training & Development in Your Business
Offer Diverse Learning Methods
Provide a diverse range of learning methods to keep it interesting. From online courses to in-person workshops, offering a diverse range of learning methods will continue to foster a positive learning culture.
Implement Mentorship Programmes
Whether these mentors are found within the organisation or outside of it, consider the implementation of mentorship programmes. Your employees can learn a lot from those around them.
Share the Knowledge
Don’t forget to share the wealth of knowledge by cross-training employees and put all the learning materials into a shared knowledge base that can be accessed by all employees across the workforce.
If you’re looking to improve your training and development programmes within your business this year, let Premier Legal help your HR team implement it all successfully. Contact us today to find out more about the legal support we can offer to your business.
