4/15 Reading Summary
What is the future of training and development? My biggest predictions for the future of training and development is that more organizations are going to start making it routine for their employees. In the past organizations have avoided the concept because they didn’t feel it was needed or a worthwhile investment. Training, none the less employee development was a word you might have heard around the office on a regular basis. Lately it has become a regular practice among organizations and they are starting to realize the benefits it brings to them. Why I think it is going to only become bigger in the future, is because people are going to start to understand the different components that should be involved in a training. Once they understand what truly is involved in a good training program, they will have a better understanding of its benefits. Organizations are also going to have a better idea of when training is even necessary. I think right now since training is such the thing to do, most organization are just having it to say their involved in training their employees. Although most of the time these training programs are not developed correctly or even needed. If businesses are going to want to retain their employees, then their idea and involvement with development will have to become a priority.
I think the way our job duties our changing these days, they just require training to be a necessity. These days our least skilled jobs require the employee to have some degree of knowledge that wasn’t expected of lower level positions a few years ago. Technology is becoming a huge factor in every possible position, requiring employee to gain a sense of how to use it. This is where the need for training comes into play for the organization. To further develop their employees, they are going to have to accommodate the use of technology with the required training.