Companies that don’t train their employees:

Working in the training and development industry I get a lot of insight into employee’s frustrations regarding their work environments and I do a lot of research on good vs not so good companies to work for. (since most of the companies that does well and continues to do well invests into training their employees- mostly with their own in-house learner-ships and I sell to and target all the others). This article is about the symptoms of companies that doesn’t train their employees- what happens to them and what do they look like.

1. High staff turnover is a clear indication. These companies often post job listings or every time you use their service you see a trainee shadowing another employee. These companies are stuck in a hire and fire cycle with a negative company culture at its roots.

2. Employees that openly complain to their customers about their work. This is also a negative company culture and it eventually leads to low productivity and low financial performance. At these companies the people work harder, not always smarter.

3. Companies whose image is very impressive, but their day to day operations is not on the same standard as their image. Only some employees get impressive offices and equipment or gets trained etc. While the other employees scrape by on outdated equipment. You cannot help someone else if your own house is falling apart.

4. Too many chiefs (leaders and managers) and too little Indian (workforce). A company should be balanced in executing every role. All team members are equally important, and it should be reflected in the management vs. workforce ratios. – this also creates a negative company culture or can even lead to micro management.

5. Some companies promise growth and promotions to their people without following through. They outsource new talent instead of developing their employees. Leading to people DE moralized and stagnating in their role.

6. No training and no learner-ship or career development means that a company is content with their growth and that means soon there will be less opportunities. You can only grow if there are goals to work towards. This also leads to high employee turnover.

7. Bad communication from leadership or management to their workforce is also an underlying reason workforce don’t get trained. Because if you don’t have a goal to train towards you can’t grow and the goals come from leadership or management. If employees work for a company for more than a year and they don’t know the companies mission statement. Then that means the employees are not buying into the company mission fully. They may appear happy or content in their work, but they are not engaged. This is normally because the mission was not sold to them properly. In business it should always be win-win. The employees win when the company wins. But if the employees don’t know what the mission is, how can they achieve it.

Richard Branson said: “take care of your employees and they will take care of your business.” A Company that trains and develops their employees is a company that takes care of their employees. According to Gullop: “companies with highly engaged workforce outperform their peers by 147%. Training and developing your employees are a major way to engage them at work.

As Always,

Keep Improving

The Ameliorate Team

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