Emerging Trends in Training & Development Sector in Sri Lanka

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Global trends in training and development sector 2022

July 08, 2022

Training and development has evolved from the past to today’s context and in 2022 there are new different trends that is being changing the training and development aspects of the organization in the present as following. The workplace has changed as a result of the recent fast digitalization (Learnster, 2022). In 2022, many of the talents that were in demand five years ago might no longer be relevant. It goes without saying that businesses urgently need to reskill their employees. Therefore, in 2022 a major trend that takes place is developing new skills and competencies of employees rapidly with the changing demands of the business environment, specially the digitalization. Apart from the technical skills, power skill plays a huge role in 2022. Power skills include communication, empathy, humility, collaboration (Learnster, 2022) and many more. Power skills has been taking the attention of the world in 2019 but during and after the pandemic power skills started to show its ...

What happens if employers do not invest in employee training and development?

June 30, 2022

There are different consequences in not having a proper training and development program in the organization. When workers lack the knowledge necessary to confidently carry out their duties, and it will reduce the output of the employees. Employers frequently assign the duty of training to workers with more experience to save time. However, these workers frequently aren't allowed more time to do their own work. They either hurriedly complete the training or left it to the new hire to ask questions. This will reduce the performance and productivity of the employees. Employees need to be motivated to do a good job at their occupations in order to achieve the goals of the organization and it will move them up the corporate ladder as well. Without training, workers are unable to do their tasks and none of these objectives can be achieved (Amo, 2022). Therefore, it will become reason for staff turnover which results as lack of employee morale. Moreover, potential talented employees ...

The Effect of Training and Development on Employee Performance

June 28, 2022

Training and development is an essential factor in any organization where training and development can be defined as the process used by a corporate to enhance the performance and skills of its employees. Training and development is an educational activity (Hrhelpboard.com, 2022) which includes information and guidelines to fill the existing skill and knowledge gaps of the organizations’ employees. To develop and effective training and development program it is important for the organization to analyze the skill gaps of the employees in the organization. Training and development helps to reduce the employee mistakes, while increasing the productivity of employees. These programs will be developed after analyzing the skill gaps which have become the reason for the mistakes that has been done by employees, since with these training programs it helps to reduce the mistakes done by employees and increase the performance of the organiza...

Why training and development is so important for the quality of service provided in the public sector in Sri Lanka?

June 20, 2022

There are different weaknesses in the Sri Lankan public sector and training and development can be used to overcome these weaknesses. The public sector is suffered by inefficient administration and bureaucracy where they need proper leadership training in running the public sector. As well the HR practices also not happen as intended in the public sector of Sri Lanka which is highly corrupted and the higher positions are mostly filled according to the will of the politicians rather than having a genuine selection process. Therefore, these areas need to be changed and there should be proper training on how things need to be changed where training and development can have a big impact. Lack of efficiency is another weakness in the public sector of Sri Lanka. In any country the purpose of public sector is social welfare rather than achieving profits. Since unlike the private sector employees tend to be less efficient and to overcome this employee attitude need to...

How to Motivate Your Employees to Participate in Training and Development Programmes?

June 14, 2022

Training and development is an essential activity in a work environment specially in a dynamic and rapidly changing business environment (Recruiting and Hiring Resources, 2022). Training and development is the process in an organization created to develop and enhance the skills and knowledge of employees working in the company by providing information and instruction on how to better perform specific tasks. The employers have to make employees willing to participate to this training and development programs. The employees need to be educated and communicated about the long-term benefits of training and development and the real purpose of the training. Training programs provide career advancements and not limiting to that employees need to be motivated by offering rewards as well. Incentives for training can be cash prizes, recognition which will make employees willingly participate to training programs. Moreover, employees expect the training programs to be flexible withi...

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