Embracing ongoing opportunities for personal development can benefit both employees and their employers; external training workshops provide the opportunity to build on their existing skillsets, learn something new, evaluate their current working methods and can also help with fostering new friendships within the workplace or just simply bring a team together.

Continued Professional Development (CPD) certainly seems to be a factor which influences peoples job satisfaction levels in an earlier article, "Do you offer on-going training and development?" GPRS Sales Director Helen Wilson discusses the benefits of offering training to staff.

This is not an ideal situation for managers and business owners who have invested company money towards the training.

I attended an external training workshop recently, and whilst there were some like-minded people present who were also eager to make the most of the day, there were those who spent the day checking their emails, repeatedly left the session to make phone calls and, in the case of a few, didnt show up at all.

Fortunately, this doesnt apply to everyone but as training isnt, and shouldnt be, cheap, as a manager you need to ensure that you are getting a worthwhile return on your investment. Once youve booked the training and sent calendar invites to your team, dont just move on to something else and forget about it, expecting your staff to be prepped and ready.

In addition, there are steps that can be taken which may sound obvious but are often overlooked, to ensure that everyone makes the most of the training.

Feel free to share the below guide with your staff ahead of an external training day:

As a manager, following the training day it is then your responsibility to sit down with those who attended and evaluate the day, asking what they have learned and what they are going to put into practice.

Training days can be costly in terms of both time and money, so its important that managers and staff alike get some benefit.

With more time and planning put into it, its possible to see a greater return on investment from training days, and enables a more effective focus on the much talked about CPD.

Sarah Burns, Managing Director of GPRS Recruitment

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