Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Train to Gain: Remodelers Reveal Valuable Training Tips
Remodeling: The perfect employee is loyal, flexible, and able to get the job done right first time every time. The perfect employee also is just about impossible to find. But, over time, you can groom employees to be all that you hoped, provided you take the time to train them and provide them with a career path.
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At a time where it always sounds like there is an increasing mismatch between the skills employers want and the skills potential employees have, this a very heartening article. The companies that recognize that their employees are investments, not just tools or pawns of execution will reap far greater productivity benefits from a team who actually cares about what they are doing. It is cool to hear that at least components of this industry are committed to training less-skilled younger hires. In particular, the pairing of an experienced craftsman with a less experienced craftsman doesn't actually sound altogether that different from what we do here at CMU. I can personally attest that I have frequently learned the most on call by watching and helping a more experienced student and asking questions about why we are doing something in such a fashion. Hooray for job training!
Obviously the most important part of a company is the employees. When it comes to construction employees need to be more then good team workers, they need to be skilled. But most often construction workers don’t go to schooling for how to be a construction worker. There is no framing school or roofing academy. So training employees is something that really does have to be done once they are hired. This article gives a pretty nice explanation of how to train these employees. I like the different methods of leadership that are expressed in this article and will try to follow them and refer back to this article in the future.
I've been reading this book as of late called "How to Make More Money by Keeping Your Employees Happy". In the business industry there is idea called employee retention. Essentially saying that Employees are investments, and we save more money and resources and in fact thrive when our employees are happy and producing good work. The way's to do that are to make sure employees are happy, challenges, secure, and supported in their position and participation within the company. Are there open channels of communication? Can someone make a mistake and feel confident to learn from it? When they were first employed did they feel like they were fully aware of all perimeters of their position? Have they been able to grow with the company? All these things are what keeps an employee at a business longer, and we all know, that the longer an employee remains at a company, the more valuable they become.
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