Training is an essential component of attracting, acquiring, and sustaining competitive human resources in an organization. It facilitates the acquisition and development of skills, employee efficiency, growth, and adaptability in the evolving job market. Last year, I attended an interpersonal and problem-solving training that I later established was not beneficial and a complete waste of time. The training was poorly organized, with poor communication regarding training objectives, training materials, training schedule, and evaluation processes. Most of the training contents were outside the core objectives, and it needed a more fluid presentation. I signed up for it to improve my soft skills, and I was expecting a hands-on experience and group-building that could have been important for interpersonal development. Some of the best training and classes I have ever attended are the lectures and lessons in this course, including lectures in week six, particularly training and evaluating training effectiveness because they were well developed and designed, highly organized, and implemented in an effective learning environment with adventure learning, apprenticeship and simulations that allowed modeling the tasks and assessing effectiveness before undertaking the actual project. According to Ellis et al. (2017), the success of new employees will only succeed if they are adequately onboarded to the company. Onboarding processes include job training, company procedures, policies and culture, compliance and safety, assimilation into the workforce, and outlining performance expectations. Effective training and evaluation of the impacts of the training enhances the firm’s output and ensures efficient utilization of the human resources available (Hira, 2007). Onboarding programs must account for informal interactions amongst the employees and between employees and the management in supporting the new employees.
References:
Ellis, A. M., Nifadkar, S. S., Bauer, T. N., & Berrin Erdogan. (2017, June 20). Your New Hires Won’t Succeed Unless You Onboard Them Properly. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2017/06/your-new-hires-wont-succeed-unless-you-onboard-them-properly
Hira, N. A. (2007, November 7). The making of a UPS driver – November 12, 2007. Money.cnn.com. https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/11/12/101008310 /
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