Introduction
Everyone in this world would like to be a successful person in his or her life. The very concept of being successful makes anybody happy and even would make them feel on top of the world. Having this estimation in mind is not harmful. You have to understand that only the thought, would not conceive opportunities for success. Success is always ahead of you at a very closer range to grab. But many a time you loose, because you trip on the hurdle on the way. They are invisible because we are blindfolded by the over confidence in ourselves. The only thing that stands in the way of our own success is we.
This acquisition of knowledge we humans receive from experiencing different events and encounters within our lives are often referred to as learning and have been the focused on studying to learn and acquire new knowledge about new things. Over centuries we have also seen the development different learning methods, while some work and others have not. However, many of these learning methodologies have been either redefined to suit the needs and wants of the target audience. Yes, it’s true, training methodologies change because when it is the same for all training, then it will not get the desired result.
As a famous saying goes “Change is the only constant thing in the World”, you cannot let things happen the same way they always were. If you do so, you may not yield better results and in the worst case there will be no result. When you want success, you obviously have to change the usual way without which, you cannot see success.
When I say change, you may wonder would change in the usual way always bring victory. My answer is very simple. When you don’t have change in your life, you feel bored. You might have a to-do list to for each day. But, you may change the schedule or even might think of having a change to suit some need. It’s obvious that whenever there is a change, you feel happy or comfortable for it.
An Important Qualification To Be Successful
The management of a company invests for the success of the company. After all the investment of hard work, money and efforts, it’s obvious that it expects the result, the return on the investment they made.
Once a man gave his two sons a mango seed each and taught them to plant. They both did what their father said. The elder son approached a pesticide shop and bought good pesticide that would protect his tree from harmful insects during the budding season. But the younger just did what his father said. At the end of the season the elder son had much better quality mangoes than the younger and more in number too.
The two sons did what their father said and they both did what is good for the plant to grow. When they did what it takes usually for a plant to grow, it grew as usual. The tree started bearing fruits, naturally. The elder son thought a little out of the box, to protect the tree from danger and applied pesticide, which made the tree hold much more and better fruits than the other.
Management success is gained through accomplishment of mission and objectives. However, accomplishing mission and objectives is not sufficient. Success requires both effectiveness and efficiency. Efficiency describes the relationship between the amount of resources used (input/investment) and the extent to which objectives were accomplished (output/returns). If the cost of accomplishing an objective is prohibitive, then the objective is not realistic in the context of the firm's resources.
Training – To Get ROI (Return on Investment)
The term training refers to the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of professional or practical skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies. It’s a planned and organized event, every company executes involving money spent on resources to ensure that they are trained to be shaped or conditioned or disciplined. Training is mutually beneficial for the employer as well as the employee.
Nobody can afford to send people for training just for the fun of it. We all expect that training will somehow impact upon a person's present or future ability to contribute to the employing organization. How do we "make it so"? Training plants significant values within the individual. Every individual is accepted by the organization, not by a mere qualification, rather the person as a whole. All these individuals have the responsibility to give the best and nothing but the best. Getting value from training isn't magical. There are some general principles that you can adapt to ensure that training for imparts potential values in you.
What’s Training Good For Anyway
There are good reasons to mandate training and development in your organization, and there are bad reasons for mandating training. There are also good reasons for not training, in some circumstances, and bad reasons to refuse. Knowing what training can and cannot accomplish enables you to make the right decisions at the right time, ensuring that your limited training dollars are used effectively.
If our work worlds were stable, and un-changing, we might not need to worry too much about training. We might still do it to provide employee development but it would be less critical to our organization's success.
All you need to do is look around at your own organization, and what significant changes that have occurred during the last year. You have to set focus yourself in line with your organization. You may have lived through down-sizing, re-structuring, changed mandates, increased workloads, flattening of management structure, and a host of other changes. It is not likely that these changes will cease in the future, and we may be looking at changed political imperatives making government more entrepreneurial, but our work worlds change, new skills, knowledge and concepts are needed to achieve our corporate goals and our personal goals. Just to stay even, and just to keep our sanity
What Training Can Do
Training can accomplish many things. It can help people learn the new skills that are required to meet new expectations, both formal and informal. For example, a support staff person may have been hired originally for his/her ability to type, to answer the phone and file. But now, with increased workloads, we want that person to be able to do much more...perhaps to solve client problems, to use desktop publishing processes, to handle more of the day-to-day issues, so we can use our time more effectively. Training can help people accept the challenge of their evolving jobs.
Training can also help to:
· Build a common understanding of the organization's purpose.
· Show management's commitment and loyalty to employees
· Develop people so they can increase their responsibilities and contribute to the organization in new ways.
What Training Cannot Do
There are few things that training can't do. Training, on its own, cannot change ineffective employees into effective ones. It is unlikely to address all the causes of poor performance. Limited training also will not turn a poor supervisor or manager into an effective one, unless it is coupled with ongoing coaching from above.
Training can’t help
· Poor structuring of work
· Mismatching of work with the person
· Unclear authorities and responsibilities
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