Employee expectations from training programs

Hi there!   

Are you delivering all your training programs without knowing your employees’ expectations based on merely your ‘assumptions’?   

If your answer is yes, surely this week’s bulletin is for you.   

Employees do not want to simply attend training programs that do not serve their interests and waste their time. Therefore, you must understand their requirements and make your training strategy accordingly.   

Let us learn more about what your employees must be expecting from the training programs in 2023.   

1. Communication of learning objects   

In any formal training, the learners are taught to achieve definite goals. The goals are supposed to be predefined as the audience must know where they are investing their time.   

2. Flexible learning   

Every employee has a different set of tasks at hand, and it is unfair to set a single time for the training program. Therefore, you must design a training program that the employees can avail at the choice of their time or schedule.   

3. Personalized experience   

Give them an option for personalized learning. You can ask them about their learning preferences like if they require live classes, written resources, or auditory ones.   

It helps them to take most of the training you are providing and extract the value.   

4. Ease of goal setting   

Before setting those big goals for your employees, you must know about the short- and long-term goals of your employees.   

Other than completing your goals as an organization, you must also take care of your employee’s goals and synchronize those to achieve the best results.   

5. Connecting them to real-life situations   

Employees just do not want you to give some theory lessons, rather they want to learn from real-life experiences.   

They want to know how they can deploy the skills they are learning.  

 

6. Interactive and engaging content   

This is one of the primary requirements of any employee. You must take care that you are providing easily consumable content to your audience.   

You must let your learners speak and share their perspectives. Develop an environment for social learning that will help your learners communicate and learn better.   

7. Keep them up-to-date and ongoing support   

Make sure you are keeping your employees up to date with the latest industry trends. In this way, they will be able to provide real value to your company.   

Make sure you are teaching them the latest industry trends and also give them support if they find anything difficult.   

I hope this was an insightful read for you. If you have any content suggestions or queries you can comment below.   

Signing off till next week!