Last Updated on Oct 7, 2022 by James W
If you want your business to grow and perform as effectively as possible, it’s crucial to give your staff adequate training across all areas that impact how they do their job. While most managers focus on this during the onboarding period, emphasis needs to be placed on continued training if you want your company to thrive. With that in mind, we’ve compiled this list of five training programs your team should be doing yearly to help you maintain positive momentum.
Cybersecurity Training
If you don’t want to end up in hot water as Optus has recently, you must do everything you can to protect company and customer data. A good step towards this is ensuring that staff complete enterprise disaster recovery and cyber resilience training each year to keep up with the changing digital landscape. In addition to equipping your team with the knowledge and resources they need to operate effectively in the digital era, these training sessions can ensure you’re never in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Laws and Regulations
This aspect may not be a top priority for all industries or all staff. However, anyone who needs to be across laws and regulations must keep their finger on the pulse with regular training. Things can change quickly, and you don’t want to accidentally conduct yourself in a way that is contrary to any laws or requirements. So be sure to schedule regular training sessions to cover any regulatory changes.
ERP Software Training
If your business uses ERP software to enhance productivity and streamline daily operations, it is a good idea to run regular training to keep team knowledge up to date. This will be highly beneficial for new and established staff as updates can sometimes significantly impact functionality. In addition, any new features will require dedicated training.
Diversity Training
While being a good person should be a given, some employees may breach appropriate etiquette without knowing what they’re doing wrong. For this reason, we strongly recommend having a workplace inclusion and diversity strategy and regular staff training. Your training sessions should cover ways they can comply with your strategy and improve outcomes both internally and externally.
Personal and Professional Growth
Finally, investing in your team’s personal and professional growth is one of the most important things you can do as a business owner or manager. Not only will this help ensure that your workplace remains productive and that actions undertaken by staff are effective, but it also shows your employees that you care about them and want to support them in their careers.
Supportive work environments improve employee retention, ensuring that you’re not wasting time, money, or effort on a constant churn of staff members. Your company will also benefit from the new skills your employees acquire.
The best way to go about this type of training is to ask your team what they’re interested in learning. If their desired skills align with their role (or with something else that would benefit the business and the individual), greenlight their request and enjoy watching them grow.
If you don’t have these five essential training structures in place in your business, we strongly recommend implementing them as soon as possible. Keeping employees trained is highly beneficial both to your company and your team members. It can greatly increase everyone’s growth potential, so it’s certainly worth doing.
