The increase in teams' skills is a driver of competitiveness for the company. La vocational training allows employees to develop their employability and achieve their personal goals. It therefore combines both the strategic needs of the company and those of talents. The increase in skills also concerns employees in the field, which today represents a real challenge.
7 steps that guarantee the rise in skills of your teams
Step 1: Make an inventory
First of all, the company must carry out an inventory of the level of skills, soft skills and knowledge of employees. This will allow you to know exactly what skills to develop within your teams.
Next, it is necessary to list the tools available within the company.
Finally, it is advisable to establish a provisional schedule listing the key dates for the development of your teams' skills. The company will then be able to predict what the objectives of the training are, according to the profile of the learners.
Step 2: Identify the learner profile
Get to know your learners. By using previous professional interviews or by creating specialized questionnaires, you should collect the following information in particular:
- The age
- Sex
- The profile
- digital fluency
- The function of the learner
- His areas of interests
- his needs and desires
- his professional successes and difficulties
Step 3: Set specific goals for increasing the skills of your teams
From the beginning of the preparation of the educational path, it is essential to set clear, precise, measurable and achievable goals. These objectives concern both the results and the performance of the company, as well as the acquisition of new skills in your teams.
Step 4: Accompany trainers and managers correctly
Trainers must be supported throughout the educational process. The increase in skills and the commitment of your employees depend on it.
In addition, involve managers in the development of teams' skills is essential. For this, they too must be supported in this new position. They are the ones who assess the skills of employees, precisely define the objectives to be achieved and who monitor the progress of the learners.
Step 5: Customize the training course to ensure the development of your teams' skills
- Choosing the tools that best fit learners' expectations
- Choose the method (s) best suited to the profiles of your employees (e-learning, blended learning, face-to-face)
- Design tailor-made courses (Adaptive learning)
- Make the employee an actor in his training course in order to develop his commitment and motivation. Thanks to social learning, gamification, quizzes, skill tests, reward systems...
- Talent must take ownership of training objectives and benefit from them (career development, employability, internal mobility)
Step 6: Retain and engage employees
Retaining and engaging employees contribute to the success of their training. For example, by customizing training courses according to the interests, needs, desires and profile of each individual, learners feel more committed. You can also use social learning and gamification tools (quizzes, badges, awards, discussion and sharing spaces).
Finally according to the Model 70-20-10 by Charles Jennings, encouraging interaction and sharing between employees is a lever for increasing team skills.
In addition, thanks to a feedback system, employees give their opinions, which allows the company to adapt the training course accordingly, to make it better suited to employees. Consequently, their skills development will be facilitated.
Step 7: Evaluate the progress of the skills development of your teams
Evaluate learners at the start and end of the course to compare their level of progress. It is important to know the strengths and weaknesses within the team in order to design an adapted and personalized course.
