How Do You Perform A SWOT Analysis In Employee Training And Development?
Along with recruiting and retaining, training is one of the three key aspects of effective employee management. Before you sit down to work out just what your employee training program should involve, however, it’s helpful to run an employee SWOT analysis and look at the business’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. First, assemble your team to create the SWOT analysis. This may be a cross-functional team of managers from different areas of the company, all of whom have some stake in developing a great employee training program. The team might include employees who have been through the training, successful team members who know where opportunities lie or the company’s training experts. Or the SWOT team might be a smaller group, maybe even just one person, who is intimately familiar with both the employees and the company’s training needs. A larger team is generally better (without getting too big), as more ideas will be brought to the table. Before beginning, it’s impor
