Cultivate Your Staff Through A Culture Of Learning
Training is often approached as another item to check off the list, when dealing with a newly hired employee. In reality though, quality education and training can empower any individual to improve their level of effectiveness, and equip them with the ability to change the environment for themselves and others.
According to this recent Inc. Magazine article http://www.inc.com/top-workplaces/2010/how-to-fix-a-toxic-workplace.html, making an investment in people makes a big impact on the workplace environment.
Author Jeffrey Pfeffer writes, "Spending money on training is a great way to say, "You are important to me." For example, the retail worker in the United States basically gets treated like s***. Nobody invests in training. Then there's George Zimmer of Men's Wearhouse, who puts his wardrobe consultants - notice the title- through four days of training at Suits University. I sat in on Suits University for a case study. There were about 35 people in the room. And by the end of the first morning, after they'd heard about the culture and how important they are and how they are consultants-they were sitting up in a different way. They were feeling better about themselves. By the end of four days, they were like the Marine Corps of suit sellers."
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