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6 steps for designing a training programme for employees
By Seismic — On 10 December 2021
A new quarter is about to begin. Across the globe, sales teams, customer support departments, and growing companies will onboard new talent in order to help them reach their ever-increasing goals.
If you're like many leaders dealing with ambitious goals, the thought of bringing new hires up to speed might make your stomach churn. Your company's corporate training plan template may be outdated, uninspiring, or ineffective.
Perhaps a litany of spreadsheets form the basis of your employee training plan template — Excel files on Excel files. It's exciting to hire new employees, but the prospect of onboarding them is overwhelming.
If this sounds familiar, you aren’t alone. In fact, only 25% of L&D professionals would recommend their own training programmes to someone else. The employee training process is a black box with surprisingly few individual development plan examples for managers to reference when creating staff training plan template for their team.
We’ve worked with hundreds of teams, across a variety of industries, as they develop their list of training programmes for employees and use Seismic Learning (formerly Lessonly) to build out lessons, courses, and training paths. Based on that experience, here are six basic steps in developing a training programme in an organisation that will make new employee training plan templates both effective and manageable:
Target a specific role
It’s easy to get bogged down trying to design a training plan that serves every employee at your company. Even if you’re responsible for training multiple job functions, don’t settle for a generic training plan. Focus on one role at a time, and ensure they get exactly what they need to do their best work.
Define three core functions
Focus is essential to designing a great training plan. You won’t be able to teach—and new employees won’t be able to absorb—everything at once, so start with the three most important functions needed for success in the role. This will help you build a concise path to productivity for your new hires.
