Why companies must prioritize employee development (and how to do it)
Try these four tactics to help your workers build brighter careers. It’s the right thing to do, and they might just stick around longer, too.
For many years, one of the big issues with employee training and development has been pretty obvious — managers didn’t have much time to do it.
As Forbes observed, “It’s not that managers don’t want employees to learn. It’s that they’re usually already overloaded, and occupied with the daily and more pressing challenges of managing their teams and tackling the to-do list.”
That comment was made back in 2018, before the pandemic, but it applies as much now as it did then.
That’s because a LinkedIn Workforce Learning Report found that 93% of employees said they would stay at an employer longer if the company took the time to invest in their careers. Forbes succinctly described it like this:
“An employer who doesn’t focus on (training) is going to lose out — in performance, engagement, and retention.”
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