Training

Introduction
Keeping your company operating like a well-oiled machine is not an easy task, especially if your business has a high turnover rates, such as retail. In order to reduce the amount of time it takes to train your new employees to reach their full potenial, you need to develop a training system that is streamed-lined, effective, and efficient and gives your new employees the skills needed to be a good employee without overburdening them with too much information. Finding the balance between too much and too little information is the key to designing the most effective training system for your company.

Step One: Determine what training is needed.
The first step in designing a training system for your company is to determine what kinds of training is needed. You will need to conduct an organizational analysis, a task analysis, and a person analysis. This three-tiered examination of your company’s training needs is required to identify: factors that will inhibit and aid training, to identify tasks that most employees will need to be trained in, and to identify employees that need to be trained.
Organizational Analysis
An organizational analysis is used to identify company factors that can negatively or positively impact the effectiveness of a training program. These factors include such things as money available for training programs, person power analysis and planning resources, employee relations and attitudes, and company resources available for training purposes.
Examples:
1. The amount of money that is allocated to training will most likely be based on your company’s turnover rate, the difficulty of the jobs performed, and the amount of cash flow that your company has. Companies that have high employee turnover rates will probably not want to spend a lot of money on training because the employees usually don’t stay very long after the training period, and therefor it is a waste of money to invest a great deal of time and money on training