Employee Development – It Delivers!

Organizations regularly invest in their teams through employee development training programs designed to equip employees with new skills and knowledge or to refine those skills. While it makes sense that an organization would want its employees to know how to perform their jobs, employee development delivers additional benefits including improved employee retention and improved job satisfaction.

Organizational Benefits of Employee Development

Organizations benefit in several important ways from employee development programs. Among the benefits of employee development:

• Improved recruitment and retention rates – Employee development programs are attractive to employees, enhancing recruitment efforts and improving job retention rates as a result.
• A more talented workforce – By offering employee development programs, organizations are able to help their employees develop their talents. This results in a more skilled workforce and helps ensure that qualified employees are plentiful. It also enables organizations to hire from within rather than looking elsewhere for talent when new positions open up.
• Improved knowledge transfer – Organizations can control the knowledge being delivered and focus their efforts on the skills, tools, and methodologies that they deem the most important for achieving the organization's mission. Similarly, employee development can be integral in creating a corporate culture.
• Reduced risk – By providing employees with employee development training in areas such as sexual harassment prevention and workplace safety, organizations can reduce the risk of incidents, injuries, and lawsuits.

Employee Benefits of Employee Development

While employee development benefits the organization, employees are also beneficiaries of these training programs.

• Improved job satisfaction – Employees that have the knowledge, skills, and tools required of their jobs tend to experience greater job satisfaction than those that lack them. According to a 2008 Salary.com survey, professional development was the top benefit employees listed when determining whether to stay in their present jobs.
• Better internal job opportunities – As employees acquire new skills and knowledge, they may be able to advance through internal job opportunities.
• Marketable skills – The skills and knowledge acquired through employee development programs are often transferrable. Even if an employee moves on, these new skills and knowledge can continue to benefit the employee for years to come.

CBT Planet offers employee development and soft skill training solutions. Whether your organization needs corporate computer training, sexual harassment prevention courses, IT training, or leadership training, CBT Planet offers a numerous options. Choose from network deployable courseware, learning libraries with an included learning management system, custom course development, boot camps, and even onsite training classes.