PART 1: A Brief Guide
Training is a way of making staff more valuable to the company and feel more valued. Development is a wider concept 每 about helping an employee to realise their full potential.
Different types: There are different kinds of training, including induction training, on-the-job and off-the-job training. Training in "hard skills", such as computer skills, or factory skills, is easier to justify than "soft-skills" training 每 such as interpersonal skills. Coaching and mentoring are also forms of training.
Training Decisions 每 Businesses waste huge sums of money on the wrong kind of training. That's why they need to apply a training needs analysis and monitor the results of training. Progressive organisations see training as part of their very fabric 每 they see themselves as "learning organisations".
PART 2: An Apprentice's Story
Apprenticeships are widely promoted as a way of gaining skills at work 每 but what's involved in being an apprentice? We visit a woman painter and decorator at work.
She explains how she to get her apprenticeship she worked part of her time on building sites and part of her time at college. But did the apprenticeship teach her things she couldn't learn on the job?
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