Fit the training to your needs

Training methods to fit your business

Weigh up the pros and cons for each type of training before deciding which type, or types, to provide for your employees. Consider the cost, space, and time needed, as well as the return on investment, for each type of training.

Another factor in determining the most appropriate type of training is whether you think your business would benefit from an injection of new ideas, ie whether you prefer to buy in training or courses from a specialist provider or whether you want to design training materials in-house.

View our list of training methods which may be helpful to your business.

The choice of training will also depend on what you want your employees to learn and the number of employees that you wish to train, for example:

• seminars are a useful way of getting across a lot of information to a large audience
• workshops allow people to practice working out problems
• role-playing allows staff to learn by practising how they would react in specific situations

Whether you opt for in-house training or send employees to external providers may depend on your company's resources and circumstances. External training courses are more expensive and involve sending employees out of the workplace, which could be disruptive to your business.

However, you may not have the skills to train in-house, eg instructor-led courses may be the only solution if you are training employees in a specific software application.

You also need to ensure that there are equal rights of access to training for all employees, including home-workers, part-timers and disabled staff. An e-learning course is one way, for example, of reaching home-workers. Scheduling courses in office hours, during which part-timers are present, allows part-timers and those with family commitments to participate.

Subjects covered in this guide

• Introduction
• Impact of training on business performance
• Identifying training needs
• Training methods to fit your business
• Training methods that suit your people
• Training resources - in-house delivery
• Training resources - distance learning
• Training resources - external delivery
• After the training
• Here's how a Training Needs Analysis improved our performance

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