The start of a new year is the perfect time for companies to plan and invest in staff development and training. When businesses prepare staff training early, they set realistic expectations and create opportunities for growth. Employees who are equipped with the latest tools, technologies, and knowledge become valuable assets. This level of preparation tends to reduce stress, motivate employee productivity, save costs, and results in systematic work...
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Every company should want to have employees who are continuously learning and building on their skills. Staff training, whether internal or external, accredited or non-accredited, is vital for businesses. There are, however, some great advantages to investing in home-grown content, especially when onboarding new hires. Hosting your content online via your own Learner Management System (LMS) is a great way to make your content accessible and unique to your business. An LMS allows companies...
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That depends on what skills you need to build. Let’s ask some questions:
What kind of reports do you write and at what level? Are there any technical elements such as graphs, charts, etc that need to be included? And how skilled/experienced are you in writing? Are you proficient in using MS Word or such tools to format reports correctly? And do you need accredited training (i.e. courses that cover NQF aligned unit standards and are assessed or formally tested for competence against...
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I once watched a man give a talk on learning new languages, a task famously hard for English first-language speakers. He surprised me with a simple question: “Why do some people never learn the language of a country, even when they have moved there years before?” It was a question that surprised me simply because I used to believe that moving to a country was the best way to learn the language. The answer he proposed to his rhetorical question was this: “Because a dro...
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The most qualified people are the most eager to learn. That sounds obvious, and to a large extent, it is. People who are eager to learn become more qualified; they’re excited to find out new information, techniques and ideas, and so they do. The less obvious trait of these folks is that they’re eager to learn even if the content isn’t new, even if they are already extremely well versed.
I’ve experienced this countless times in class; the most knowledgeable student is b...
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