Employee training is considered a crucial part of any business.
Without the proper training or even any training at all, some
businesses could fail due to poor employee performance. With so
much being invested in employee training, you might be surprised to
learn that nearly 90% of new skills are lost and forgotten within a
year (Why Employee Training Fails, 2019). So why do we invest so
much money and time into something that could potentially fail? No
organization is immune to training challenges. And of course, no two
organizations will struggle with the same set of challenges — the hurdles
any L&D team faces change as the size of the business increases and as
its growth accelerates (Why Employee Training Fails, 2019). There are
many different factors out there that can cause a business to have
limited training or even have some of their training fail.
Here are the top 7 reason’s that training can fail for a business. There
is limited time and competing priorities, lack of interest, limited
budget and training resources, information overload, lack of planning
and poor timing, neglecting what happens after training, and relying
on technology to do the work for you. Of course, not all of these
reasons can cause failure and all of them do have ways to be
corrected to avoid failing. While there is no silver bullet for getting
employees more engaged in training, strategically marketing your training
programs to employees and getting support from managers across the
business will go a long way. Employees need to see how the training
benefits them, so it doesn’t get pushed to the bottom of their priority
list (Why Employee Training Fails, 2019). To me that seems to be one
of the key things to get employees engaged in training. Also making
training more flexible to employees. Limiting how much information
is given to an employee during training can also ease tension of
possible information overload. But most importantly, following up
after training. Design follow-up activities and testing that reinforce
learned skills after the training ends. Also be sure to make training
materials available to employees through a central knowledge base so
they can reference training they may have forgotten when they are ready
to apply it (Why Employee Training Fails, 2019).
Sometimes it’s the small things that can make or break a business.
Training can be both small and big for a company, depending on their
size. Making sure employees have enough of training and proper
training leads to a well-oiled machine. This in turn will benefit not
only the company, but the employees, customers, and community.
