Training & Development

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Training & Development

In this section I will be identifying the key aspects of training and development programme an explanation of how this is an importance to Southgate college.

Training & development

Development involves helping an individual to realise his or her potential. This concerns general growth, and is not related specifically to the employees existing post.

The term training means the gaining of a particular set of knowledge and skills, which can be applied to a particular job.

Training programmes: most large organisations have their own or employee training officers to run training programmes for employees. They usually have a personnel or human resources staff administering them.

Small businesses provide their own training or use training consultants and colleagues this could be expensive.

Training and development is a way of tuning and priming the workforce to enable them to work at their very best.  An employee needs to know how the company operates, what the plans are for the future and where they might fit in and how they intend to develop them to enable them to develop with your company.

Types of training

On- the job training involves instructing employees at their place of work (Southgate college) on how a particular task should be carried out. This may be done by an experienced worker demonstrating the correct way of performing a task, or by a supervisor coaching an employee by talking them through the job stage by stage.

Off- the job training is any form of instruction, which takes place away from the immediate work place. Southgate College organises an internal based within on the site facilities. This approach to training is more likely to include more general skills and knowledge useful at work.

Types of skills

Non-Transferable skills- these are skills that are extremely specific to the job held. They are of little use in any other job. Only a narrow range of skills suitable for one trade e.g. printer compositors, training to work on a compositor may provide the employee with only a skill that is not transferable. This means that when the employee switches to a newer machine they have to learn the skills acquired on the old one. This takes time, and time costs money. As we know compositors are no longer used it is all computerised.

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Transferable skills- these are skills that can be used in a wider variety of jobs. These skills are very important today they can be transferred from one type of job to another. In looking around for jobs, people must have a selection of transferable skills. People with transferable skills are more useful to employers because they learn a new job quickly and they are cheaper to train.

Induction training- this type of training is used for employees learning about the job and organisation. A successful job applicant should be provided with induction training of some kind. The larger organisations ...

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