22 October 2018

Continuous training to reinforce motivation

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La lifelong learning is a workers' right, but it is also one of the ways for the company to strengthen the motivation of your staff; The motivation that will lead to an increase of their professional productivity. Want to know why? We tell you in detail in today's article.

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Continuous training improves motivation by providing new challenges, increasing confidence, and offering opportunities for advancement.

La Continuous training It is necessary in any professional sector for a very simple reason: we live in a Advanced and technological society, a society in which there is hardly any job left in which you don't have to use digital devices, advanced machinery or more or less complex computer systems.

This company has opened a deep generation gap among workers of different ages (the famous digital divide), something that negatively influences the Professional motivation of older workers and whose influence can be minimised through continuous training. Why? Let's see...

Unlike what happens with most employees belonging to the famous Generation Y or millennial workers (born from the second half of the 1980s of the last century) senior do not have the basic skills to adapt naturally to technological changes.

These valuable middle-aged men and women they have not received neither the basic digital training that younger people have had, nor the internet access facilities that seem so normal to younger employees. employees senior Those who don't master new technologies feel clumsy and out of place, negative feelings that negatively influence their motivation to learn and, of course, on their personal productivity and its profitability for the company.

In this regard, continuous learning is the perfect solution to eliminate those negative feelings, that personal and professional unhappiness which, let us not forget, has a negative impact on the productivity and profitability of every member of the company.  

How does it do it?

  • Continuous training provides Basic technological knowledge necessary to operate all types of digital devices.
  • The various training actions focused on improving technological skills improve self-esteem of the employees senior and, thus, their feeling of happiness staff.

What other business advantages does continuous training offer?

We have already seen that Continuous training increases productivity of our middle-aged employees and, also, of younger professionals who need career stability. What other advantages for the company to provide continuous training to your human team? Some as interesting as the following:

  • The employee who receives continuous training from their company understands that the organisation they belong to Bet on him or her, who needs him to improve his skills because he expects to count on his professionalism in the future. We are talking about that famous professional stability which is so necessary in the delicate times our economic fabric is experiencing, stability that provides relief to employees and allows them to make personal and family plans for the present and the future.
  • Most employees who are free to do different specialist courses they are obliged to reciprocate in some way with the company that pays for this training. Thus, the employee-employer emotional bonds that so greatly influence workplace well-being are strengthened, on positive work environment and, of course, the overall profitability of the company as a whole.

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