Onboarding new employees, training new team members and helping new hires get ingrained into your business processes is one of the hardest parts of managing an organization and can become a logistical nightmare if not handled correctly.
Employee training is crucial though. In fact, 40% of employees who receive poor training will leave their positions within their first year of work.
As a manager or owner of a business, this is probably one of your greatest sources for potential headaches and is also one of the most crucial things to get right. Custom software can not only make employee training easier, but better, and actually help both your organization and new hires soar within their role.
Employee Training Challenges
New employees take a long time to train and make many mistakes, oftentimes through no fault of their own. It’s simply a by-product of being new and inexperienced in the organization. Frustrations both the new hire and you may have run into might be things like:
- There is a lot of organizational knowledge that takes long to disseminate to new team members.
- This information is often not fully understood or misinterpreted at first due to a lack of or poor communication.
- It costs a lot in both resources and time to bring someone new on board because they need excessive supervision.
- Someone must monitor and limit specialized tasks to highly trained individuals while keeping these tasks from newer hires.
How Custom Software Can Make Employee Training So Much Better
One of the biggest struggles of hiring new employees is using currently well-trained employees to oversee them. This pulls away from other work that needs to be done and ultimately cuts into time and resources produced for your bottom line. This may be one of the reasons why you dread or avoid hiring new employees.
Custom software can help solve so much of this! The beauty of custom software is that it can take work off of yours or other employees’ plates when it comes to training new team members.
Custom software can limit new employees to tasks they are ready to take on.
This could be restricting access to certain items, keeping them on track with their onboarding, or additional training materials being delivered to help them get acquainted with your business processes.
Custom software can ensure that the work new hires do always fit within the rules that govern the business.
A new employee isn’t going to understand how you want things to go right off the bat. This is where training can take a long time and many mistakes can be made. But, with custom software, you can ensure that an employee always works according to the business rules that you set.
Custom software can free your other employees up to work in sales, fulfillment, or customer support instead of training new hires.
Think about the time, money, and other resources you can use to your advantage if other employees are not spending their working days training new hires, but working on the customer side of your organization, drumming up sales, or working towards greater employee fulfillment in the organization. Custom software can help every employee – new or seasoned – thrive!
If you’d like to start making your employee training program better with custom software, we’d love to help you. Schedule a free consultation at any time.
