All businesses, no matter their size or turnover, can benefit from employee training. The training should go beyond the mandatory onboarding. To serve your business effectively, you need to invest in training that goes further in their overall development.
Smaller businesses may have trouble outlaying expensive costs for various training courses. If that isn’t the case, they simply may not have time in their schedules to pause regular work. If this is the case for you, you will be pleased to know that there are various other ways in which you can offer training and development to your small business team.
Those who lack the resources and time to invest in an extensive training program can offer alternative approaches to make sure that their employees grow and improve.
Shadowing is a great way to help a member of your team become familiar with a different area/function of the business, showing them how to use Xero accounting software, for example. Additionally, you can encourage your employees to take advantage of the vast amount of information available to them through the internet and YouTube to enhance their skills and knowledge. Check-ins every week or month can also be extremely beneficial to your team. It may not seem like a typical training practice, but by having regular check-ins with your employees, whether this is done individually or as a team, it allows you to know where everyone is at with their work. Perhaps they are feeling overwhelmed and could use a bit of advice on how to balance their work more effectively. The tips presented here are not your typical employee training methods, but they are a free approach that can ultimately make your employees more productive in the long run. In addition to those training methods mentioned above, Vision2Learn also offer a range of government funded Level 1- 2 Courses ranging from business and administration to cyber security. This is something that you could potentially suggest to your employees to enrol on and complete in their own time, or maybe allow for a few hours a week during work hours.
Small businesses, like businesses of any size need to invest in some type of training to retain existing staff and draw in new talent, but without a sizeable budget or having vast experience of rolling out training across a company. I hope that the above tips might prove useful. Do let me know if any of these resonate with you or if you have any other suggestions.