The Importance of Corporate Training for Managers

The importance of corporate training depends solely on the actual intent of the corporation desiring their employees to adhere to their process.

This may appear at first glance, appear to be an unusual way to begin an article on the importance of corporate training, but from experience it's exactly the way the article should begin. Why would the corporation spend the funds to provide training if they didn't want the training to be followed? Good question.

Sometimes a corporation can become so large, it appears to lose its grasp on reality and definitely loses perspective as to the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. Somebody launches a particularly good campaign, a vice president's relative, which demonstrates corporate training for their employees is required for the continued growth of the company.

Nobody has the guts or forethought to question how the company became so large and successful with their employees' current training. In any event the idea is adopted and someone is placed in charge of its execution. The problem arises when the party(s) creating and implementing the corporate training develop a program which fits their idea of what the company is about, not the reality of what it really is.

All employees are run through this instant IQ elevator, which makes them experts in every aspect of how the company operates and its goals and ethics, only to be informed to forget what they were told by corporate as soon as they hit the field and the real world of operation.

In this type of situation, and believe me they're out there, the importance of corporate training on a scale of 1 to 10, ranks a 2. The training is not a total waste as it does teach the new employee the corporation isn't much different than a lot of other businesses, say one thing - do another.

In the event a corporation has an established corporate training program and is sincere in their desires for employees abiding by their training, the training takes on a whole new importance.

A corporation which is involved in franchising, training is imperative as it is essential the franchisor follow the successful proven business plan and operation of the parent company. Not only is excellent training required, but constant monitoring of the progress the franchisor makes is important. When beginning a new adventure of any type, the temptation to improvise when confronted with a problem you're not sure of how to solve, can be the first step of straying off the straight and narrow program.

To continue with the example given in the beginning, a lot of occasions, the employee himself or herself may not be sure or confident enough to take up a new role, learn new skills, and generally, hesitant in accepting this development. But this is bound to happen.