Success factor: continuing vocational training
© AdobeStock/VaLDIVIA Our working world is changing, and with it the business environment. Innovation cycles are becoming shorter, new leading technologies are entering the market, and the demands on companies and their employees are becoming more complex.
To ensure that your company remains competitive and you can respond to changing technologies and trends in the market, you need not only a good corporate strategy but also managers and employees who continuously develop their skills.
Continuing professional development is thus becoming a key factor in the future viability of all companies. Not only does it increase competitiveness, but in dynamic times it is also becoming a necessity for companies to remain in the market at all.
Integrating a continuing education strategy into the corporate culture or switching to a new way of learning and working usually involves various structural and strategic challenges at first. These can be overcome with a customized roadmap for the company—especially if managers and HR managers are involved from the outset, in addition to the management team.
- Securing skilled workers: Young workers in particular look for opportunities to develop their skills and learn new things when searching for a job. Employees feel more connected to a company that invests in them and thus contribute more to the company's success. The employability of employees is maintained and promoted.
- Higher productivity: Well-trained and educated employees are generally more self-motivated and can respond more quickly to new technologies and trends.
- Lower costs: When employees can solve questions and problems independently because they have up-to-date skills, there is less need to call in external service providers.
- Greater innovation: Employees who can learn independently have the opportunity to be more creative and thus contribute more effectively to the development of internal changes and innovations within the company. The competitiveness of the company is secured in the long term by increasing its endogenous potential.
- Increased well-being: Knowing that one's own skills are up to date is an important factor in employee job satisfaction. This is because positive skills development usually also leads to a feeling of security in one's own area of activity. Regular in-house training keeps employees up to date and gives them a feeling of security.
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Contact
Katarina von Bönninghausen-Budberg
Hanover
Employment Promotion
Department of Economic and Employment Promotion
