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APRIL 2014 | www.hrotoday.com
Quick Training Wins
10 time-tested techniques for boosting productivity.
By Jeff Fernandez
Global-market competition and other business factors
such as the rising cost of healthcare have accelerated
the need for companies to be more productive.
CIOs, CLOs, and HROs may look far and wide for
ways to increase employee productivity. But the
solutions they're searching for may be closer at hand
than they think.
Training employees to make better use of existing
technology investments may be the shortest route to
impressive gains in productivity and return on
investment. A classic (2006) report from The Gartner
Group demonstrated that untrained workers take
up to six times as long to accomplish work compared
with employees who are properly trained. But most
people can intuit that training improves productivity,
even if they can't identify exactly how much faster the
work gets done. And beyond speciļ¬c productivity gains,
training shows employees you're willing to invest in their
future.
Here are 10 proven ways that an HR-led training program
can boost productivity, reduce support costs, and increase
employee job satisfaction and retention:
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