Should There Be Corporate Training

By Shawn Aston


Corporate training of employee is one of the focuses of organizations and companies in today's world, aimed at bettering the performances of employees. Over the year's corporate training have been given different names by people trying to mould it into the organizational structures of companies.

Many people, particularly experts in human development training had argued that the three aspects of corporate training are synonymous. The trainers of corporate training had not agreed with these experts, but they have seen the division to be separate and complementary. The budget for human development training will continue to rise because of the increasing awareness of company's and wider acceptability it is now gaining among the corporate worlds.

There are classes of people involved in human development training as stakeholders. The recipient (business planners), and the coaching team (line managers), must work together to get the job done. On the average many staff doesn't consider this training important, hence the trainers have to get them interested, to achieve the right result. Managers and departmental heads might have conflicting ideas and agendas which may not augur well with the overall decisions to move the organization forward.

For relevance of employee in this fast changing world, there is need to learn and unlearn new things on constant basis to keep up with changes in the corporate world. Hence, it is now a must for any organization that wants increasing productivity to keep arranging human development training for her staff. Planned and unplanned learning are used for developing talents in an organization, especially the stakeholders in the organization who must keep abreast of happenings in the corporate world. If the company finds it hard to do talent development training for all members of her staff, then she may reserve it for top management staff, which will learn, teach, and live it for others to see. The challenges facing organizations are many and varied but successful ones have been able to scale through by training and retraining their staff to cope with them.

Many companies are moving away from the traditional method of allowing staff to only learn as they gather experience in the job. Customization of development training is good and very effective as we have seen it happening in many of the 21st century organizational world. In this turbulent economy, it is important that companies have to retain good staff and train them more to get the best from them always and to reduce the cost of doing business.

Personal preference and petty politics must not be allowed to frustrate the good goal of taking the workforce through talent and human development training. When employees see that training is just an external program that management has brought to make them achieve company's overall goal they may not buy into it as they should. Escalating training budget may be seen as obstacle by organizations' decision makers in the wake of other expenses they have to incur in their day to day activities and human resources challenges has made integration of development training difficult.




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