Give Staff the Training They Really Need

Give Staff the Training They Really Need Today more than ever, employers are aware of the importance of encouraging adaptability, specialist skills and development in their employees. Keeping up
with new industry practices and technological change are essential if employees are to meet the challenges of the future. For employers, this means training is an aspect of staff development they cannot afford to ignore.

Instill the need to learn
Many bosses send their staff on training courses without giving much consideration to the learning content, how it fits into their team's job responsibilities and whether or not their team requests the training in the first place. Booking staff into external courses is expensive, but it can save you from having to think too much about what your employees actually want or need. However, you can find ways to introduce continuous learning in the workplace and discover training talents you didn't realize you had!

A growing number of firms, consultants, commercial companies and training firms are developing programs tailored to the needs of accountants. Employers can send their staff on external courses, or, bring in independent consultants to provide customized on-site training.

Over-reliance on training departments and external course providers, however, has created an environment where managers forget that staff training starts inhouse. Organizing expensive courses is just that ‘expensive’. You can easily create a learning culture in your own department. All it takes is a careful review of your current arrangements, a brief training needs analysis, and, working with your team, implementation of short but effective workshops from which both you and your team can learn. What's even better news is that not only will your training be completely customized; you’ll enjoy it too.

Time, knowledge and energy
Effective training does take time, but consider how your assistant accountant interpreted financial information required to add to the company budget this morning. You watched in pain as he attempted to prepare forecasts and projections. That's another fifteen or thirty minutes gone, with the editing you'll have to do later. If only you had taken the time to show him how to do it thoroughly.

Think about something else now. How does your assistant feel when you take a draft document from her, and, with a few strokes of your pen or clicks of a mouse, alter her work from a poor attempt to a professional document? The time taken to provide the correct knowledge to her will allow her to complete the job effectively the next time and will give her the confidence to perform more efficiently now that she is properly trained.

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