Training Program: Benefits Of Technology Implementation

TRAINING PROGRAM Name Affiliation Abstract Organizations all over the world, large-scale or small-scale, thrive on well-established training programs that maintains their competitiveness in the different sectors. The training programs helps the organizations through a comprehensive process that seeks to highlight challenges facing the employees in their production endeavors. An organization’s relevance in the market and maintenance of its competitive edge depends solely on agile workforce that is receptive to continuous learning and development. It is the responsibility of such entities to provide enough resources to facilitate the continuous learning process and motivate their employees to constantly review individual positions on the different parameters required for maximum productivity. The trainees, on the other hand, bear the sole responsibility of applying themselves to the programs and putting to practice their learning experience. Application of the best practices gained from the program serve not only the interests of the organizations but also encourage personal development of the individual which may be beneficial to their careers. Training Program Introduction Organizations around the world which dedicate and commit themselves to success, global or otherwise, usually have a training program for its entire workforce irrespective of hierarchy or position within the firm. Induction programs, for instance, are examples of training programs which are conducted for all employees in big corporations such as British American Tobacco (B.A.T) for all its employees. The strong commitment to training programs by organizations across the world, start-ups or established entities, creates a difference between continuous growth and market irrelevance or even closure of corporations. It is through training programs that organizations prepare for the eventualities of the future through an intensive, thorough execution of certain activities whose application are not limited to strict adherence of the specifics learnt and executed during or at the training session. Hence, training programs can either be tailored to achieve some set standard results to ensure the trainees meet the required competencies at their places of work or simply acquaint employees with what is expected of them. At times the training program itself can prove to be a challenge for a firm due to various unforeseen or underlying problems that are more often than not overlooked by the trainers or the management. Some of the challenges associated with inefficiency of training programs include change in management, lack of good communication network, lack of conflict resolution frameworks, and implementation of technology. Nevertheless, addressing a training problem, technology implementation for this case, requires the constitution and implementation of an elaborate training program based on adequate consideration of all the basic factors and stakeholders involved in the whole process. Training Programs Training programs are not always smooth sailing or exciting processes but require careful planning and intrinsic evaluation of fundamental factors of the organization. At face value, a good training program takes into consideration the fact that the trainees are adult ...