Top Training Plan Example: A Step-by-Step Guide for Effective Learning

Introduction to Employee Training

Providing a well-structured training plan to your employees is vital for meeting legal requirements and compliance, integrating workers into the company culture, improving productivity and encouraging better performance. It also allows you to cater for ongoing training, evaluation methods and assessment methods.

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Developing an Employee Training Plan Template

When developing an employee training plan template, it’s important that you’ve curated and approved it with the right people within your company. Speak to the heads of the relevant departments to ensure you’ve not missed any important steps.

An effective employee training plan should include the following:

Introduction to the company:

Culture, individual and organizational goals, safety protocols. Show them around the site or office, provide access codes and review contracts, licences and documentation. Factor in meet and greet time with the rest of the team.

Job responsibilities:

Discuss individual job responsibilities and the associated learning objectives. If they are experienced, you may decide to allow them more solo time exploring the systems or technology. If the employee is new to the role or industry, you may factor in some time to provide additional information or resources. Find out how their previous role differed so you can demonstrate the unique tasks for this specific position.

Training content:

Provide training content and goals across a variety of learning activities and training methods. Ensure you provide versatile, high-quality content that is adapted to differing learning styles. Use e learning platforms to provide a mixture of both generic company training goals and tailored to their specific skills and role. A learning management system allows you to store and facilitate training to your workforce, monitor completions and meet compliance training requirements.

On the job training:

Factoring in on-the-job training to your plan is an important step in helping new employees adapt to their new role. It gives them time to settle in, learn or develop the technical skills required, and can often be a more dominant learning style for many people.

It is also a great chance for performance observations - allowing you to identify gaps in knowledge or expertise and perhaps tweak your employee training plan to factor this in.

Assessment and review:

Assessments are a great opportunity to measure training effectiveness and gather feedback. Test knowledge retention through interactive e-learning assessments. As they end their training plan and begin their day-to-day duties, ensure your new employee feels confident and comfortable in their new role, and has the knowledge and skills required to succeed.

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Identifying Training Needs

Identifying employee training needs is a vital component of employee training plans but often gets missed. Here are some tips and tricks to ensure your employees, both new and established, are constantly evolving their skills and development.

Track employee performance:

Provide company targets and individual employee KPIs to measure the performance of your staff. When standards are slipping or a team member is not doing as well as usual, it’s a great indication that something is amiss. They could be unmotivated due to a number of reasons, but these key indicators allow you to jump in and provide some additional support, incentive or a training refresher.

Employee development:

Employee development is a great way of showing your workers you value them and want to give them the opportunity to develop new skills and role versatility. It often gives them a boost of confidence and a new lease of life within the role, allowing them to thrive and grow with the company.

Coaching sessions:

Providing coaching sessions to your employees can be a powerful tool. It can make a huge difference to their performance, strategic thinking and development. Position it as a mentorship because you see their potential rather than ensure it’s with the narrative of development and their future, as opposed to them being worried it is micromanagement or due to poor work.

Compliance requirements

Compliance is something that is constantly evolving and it’s so easy for things to slip through the cracks. Keeping on top of compliance training needs will help ensure you’re meeting company and industry regulations and are prepared for audits and reporting.

Grace Clueit

Marketing Manager

This article was written by Grace Clueit, Altora’s Marketing Manager. Grace has significant experience in marketing and writing.

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