Training Management: Continuous Changes Are A Fact Of Life For Corporations
All who have spoken to a hiring manager has heard the complaint that good people are just too hard to find. The secret is that the reason for this isn't that there aren't any good people. There are plenty of highly skilled and qualified employees in the workforce. They just don't go on the market - they're just too darned happy where they are. A big part of the reason for this is that they didn't necessarily start out as highly skilled and qualified, but were brought to that level through management coaching and competent business.
Certainly many CEO's have a Harvard MBA, but well below the CEO level, the fact is that a large percentage of management started out at the bottom. There's not much reality to the old quip "Why back in my day, you started at the bottom - and by God, you stayed there!" In fact, everyone knows that competent training management (often called "on the job training") is one of the chief ways companies have of increasing the worth of their in-house talent. And this worth doesn't just leave the company indeed.
Employees who see that a company invests in them through conferences, seminars, and other forms of training management will recognize a company that cares about them and their careers. Employees who are secure in this knowledge that their company is making an investment in them will likely not go to market looking for other companies to work for.
Another dirty secret is that training management works well for companies whose employees don't know exactly what they're worth. Unlike employees holding a Harvard MBA, those with training management do not have a piece of paper that suddenly makes them too expensive to hire. At the same time, though, they are often just as motivated, perhaps even more so, after taking on the paid job training than someone who has just slugged through academia. This is one of the many reasons companies are eager for training management.
Just as important to a company as training management is another function: change management. Would that the market never moved, that once we designed a product, we could keep selling it forever! However pleasant that thought might be, the reality is that change is a constant in this world, and even products as venerable as Coca-Cola get redesigned from time to time - to say nothing of the blitz ad campaigns! A company must be able to keep its workforce fresh and filled with vitality through continuous management.
Although a piece of paper from Harvard never changes, continuous changes are a fact of life for corporations across the world. With the right training and change management, companies can keep on top, turning weak employees into strong ones, and allowing someone with out-dated qualifications into fresh and exciting new areas. And that's something even Harvard is struggling with now.
Hiring managers tend to say that good people are very hard to find. That is because there aren't any good people available. The highly skilled and qualified employees are very happy where they are, and don't go to market. The reason is that they did not start that way but were elevated to that position through competent business and management coaching. Thus, employees prefer to remain in such an organization that invests in them through seminars, conferences and other forms of training management. Another function of a company is change management, through which the workforce is kept very new. Thus companies stay on top and make their employees strong.
Published July 20th, 2007
Filed in Business, Finance, Management
