It’s an absolute necessity to keep upskilling your Team if you
want to achieve greater results and greater goals in the long run.
We
recommend that instead of hiring new employees and investing more money
into recruitment and training, one can better their existing workforce
to take upon leadership roles.
Upskilling your employees
can result in better productivity, higher retention rates, and also
helps to improve employee morale. Most employees would like to be a part
of a company that offers them greater opportunities to grow
professionally and at the same time improve their skill set.
Below are some 5 tips to Upskill your employees when there is less time
Leverage in-house Experts
There is a high possibility that you can find good trainers with
vast experience within your company itself. Since they are already
working for you; they would like to take upon this opportunity of
training others and being the leader.
You can make this
offer more glamorous, by offering the trainers a salary increase or even
a better position. After all, they are helping you to avoid the hassle
and expenditure of recruiting new workers.
Use Webinars and Video Conferences
Webinars and video conferences are a great way to upscale your employees.
Webinars offer multiple benefits:
1) Auto-recordings of meetings for future reference
2) Start-to-finish meeting planning in advance
3) Option to pre-load meeting content
4) Auto-schedule and duplicate recurring meetings
5) Collaborative features, such as polls, screen sharing, and Q&A sessions.
Build a culture of mentoring
Many new colleagues find it difficult to adapt to their new
work, company, and even colleagues. Thus, senior workers can act as
mentors and also provide on-the-job training to their subordinates.
This
helps your teams to bond, and also understand each other’s challenges.
This helps them to discuss any issues they may be facing directly with
their mentors, without involving the upper management
Encourage Self-training
One very crucial way to encourage upskilling is by encouraging a
bottom-up approach to learning. Managers can identify the weaknesses of
their subordinates and ask them to work on them by themselves to
improve their job and do it better.
One can provide some
form of incentives such as rewarding the employees, allowing them to
attend workshops during work hours, allocating paid training time, etc.
Include HR in your goal setting
One of the great ways of ensuring an upskilling culture is to
document it behind the policy. It should be goal-posted that will help
your business to flourish. After carefully considering and reflecting on
the ideal target skills, use policy to make sure that L&D is
monitored and applied to the workforce.
So, the above
are just some fast tips that will help to build a better learning
culture at work, and also help to upscale your employees’ skills.