With the current cost-of-living challenges, for construction companies particularly, there is a problem with good employees leaving to go to a competitor because they offer potentially better wages.
It is therefore logical that, if every company bases employee retention on what it pays, there will be an ever increasing upward spiral of wage cost. So how can an organisation offer something else that will retain good staff? As well as actually treating them in a way that they feel genuinely valued, a lot of employees want to feel that they are being encouraged to better themselves and, by doing so, earn more money.
In a situation where material costs are rising and clients are putting contracts off, it is all too easy to look at cost cutting and pick training as an easy target. However, this just isn’t sensible!
Whilst some training is a must because it is required for accreditations such as CHAS or ConstructionLine, or main contractors or clients insist on certain health and safety qualifications, it should also be aligned to progressing people in their jobs. Showing employees that training is not just there for the organisation’s sake but for theirs, is a necessity but it has to be ‘sold’ as helping a person in their career and not being imposed on them.
Our vast range of e-learning covers all of the subjects that are probably needed for compliance but an equally vast range of titles that are of benefit to an employee to help them progress.
Please have a look at our Course List and consider whether you should be helping employees to further themselves in your organisation, rather than just looking at what is in their pay packet.