Training, Upskilling… The Myth…

Disclaimer: This is purely based on my experience…

So Training and upskilling a thing that has grown exponentially in this pandemic time. We see every organization giving stress to upskilling and Training for employee empowerment.

There is some percentage of people who have been doing this based on their interest but there exists some set who do it as a process and to ensure their appraisal goals are met. Is this Employee Empowerment?

Training and Upskilling have become a mandate for every employee irrespective of his interest. There needs to be some upskilling but the employee does not have any confirmation on whether his skills should be put to use or not, to elaborate, most of the employees who are upskilling themselves never get a chance to use the upskilled knowledge by any means in the organization. The reason being there is no defined career path that is neither known to the employee nor the organization. This in turn leads to frustration in the employee. This type of approach is generally linked to your appraisal where a goal is assigned to you for upskilling and training based on the organization’s future goals.

This might generally put a burden on the employee to complete some training before the designated appraisal time and after upskilling, there is no change in their professional growth. Such Upskilling will definitely benefit the company as it would get a chance to project the strength of its workforce for receiving new assignments from potential clients.

This can also lead an employee frustration and not providing productive output. This scenario is also dealt in an inappropriate way, for example, most of the places an employee would get to hear, that if this continues then there might some problems in the appraisal process or they would be given some dose on how this would impact the existing project’s future and client feedback, they would also be given some assurance of some respite. But is the approach correct? feel the foremost basic question to ask is Why are you not performing in a productive way, and what is your ongoing concern?. This might help to change the entire picture of the conversation.

Based on my perception of training and upskilling, I feel the employees should be allowed to select a career path of their interest, work through the role for few months, later they should be presented with a choice of some upskilling or Training. This might Motivate the employee and yield better productive results. This is definitely a slow process but will generally produce better results.

We always heard of a CUSTOMER FIRST Approach…. What the world actually needs is an EMPLOYEE FIRST Approach…

This might question organizations as to how would that help the company, feel that EMPLOYEE FIRST is directly proportional to CUSTOMER FIRST (just my perception :-))

This might be a bit controversial but is purely based on my experience

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