Temporary workers will only be with your organization for a short period of time. How do you balance their training to be the shortest time period possible while still ensuring they can do the job correctly?

On your family farm, some of your employees will inevitably be family members. When you begin training them, you will need to ensure that the employee who happens to be family is held just as accountable to a clear job description as employees who aren’t family.

Formal training can be found in most organizations as it is easy to measure and evaluate.

Informal training mirrors the learning process human nature follows in most life experiences.

Also called Networking Groups or Expert Groups, belonging to a Leadership Group can have many benefits.

General Insight
Many companies provide additional personal development options to their employees. This can be leadership training, further education, or other alternatives that benefit the employer while the employee is with the company. Additional training also increases the employability of your staff.
Sometimes providing extra training to your employees makes them very loyal. Sometimes, however, this training [...]

External Opportunity
Not only is volunteering a great way for employees to contribute to the community, and a contribution that can be made under a corporate banner as a bit of inexpensive advertising, but volunteering can be a unique way to encourage the ongoing skill and professional development of those employees. Volunteering give [...]

External Weakness
This guide categorizes external weaknesses as detrimental aspects of your business that may be out of your control. The location of your business, while obviously good for clients and suppliers, may not be mobile and may not be close to learning opportunities for your employees. While centrally-located businesses may have connections [...]

Internal Opportunity
What better way to encourage learning and internal training than putting that learning into the hands of employees? Presumably your business hires good people who have skills and knowledge that drives your business forward. It might be a challenge to recruit a “volunteer” for the task — nothing a small incentive such [...]

Internal Weakness
Skill requirements and training standards are important, but businesses who aim too high can create obstacles to entry that are difficult for potential employees to overcome. Training is an investment of time, energy, and resources, and often all at the cost of the prospective worker. That’s fine if balance between payoff [...]

Internal Weakness
Do your employees know what they need to know to do their jobs? As elementary as it sounds, while employees usually know that they need to “get the job done” it isn’t always as clear how to do it. This can be simply a matter of poor internal training, but can also [...]

External Weakness
Do your prospective employees know what’s required of them to work with you? Employers often just expect to get lucky with regards to finding an employee with the right skills for their available positions. Sure, many jobs do just require basic, standard skills, training, or tickets. But does your labour pool know [...]