A successful company is one that adapts to its market and encourages its employees to move forward. Training boosts troop motivation and therefore your results. Some questions for Emmanuelle Maufrais, director of AGEFOS PME Île-de-France.
Why should an SME manager invest in employee training? There are plenty of good reasons! Investing in training is a powerful strategic and managerial tool. Acquiring new skills improves the company’s competitiveness, meets a cyclical need, or addresses a technological evolution of the company. Finally, it increases employee engagement.
Training is also a management lever then… Today, the company’s primary asset is its human resources. Succeeding in effectively managing people is the key to success in highly competitive markets. Implementing a training policy is a serious asset. Because employees who evolve, who feel that their manager is investing in them, are happy employees who are more engaged in their work.
How can you be sure to choose the right ones? The need for training must be anticipated and approached on a win-win basis. The company and the employee must be involved. Today, actions are no longer decided solely at the initiative of the company; the employee has the means to be proactive. Thanks to the Individual Right to Training (DIF) or the Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE), they can make choices based on their situation and personal goals.
How does AGEFOS PME Île-de-France facilitate access? The redesign of our website, www.acces-formation.com, allows all member company managers with fewer than 50 employees to directly and user-friendly access a catalog that we have carefully selected. Another novelty, the catalog has been enriched with e-learning courses, therefore distance learning, and blended learning, which is a mix of classroom and distance sessions.
What about cost coverage? To enable access to the largest number of employees, training costs on the website are covered by AGEFOS PME Île-de-France for a financial contribution of €50 excluding taxes per trainee. Access to training is available to all.
A training plan, moving forward! The principle? This scheme includes all training actions planned for adapting employees to their jobs, developing their skills, and keeping them in the company.
What training? To do this, determine the skills and behaviors to improve to develop your company. The professional interview can help you identify needs.
The tools? Traditional classroom training sessions but also new tools like e-learning and blended learning are interesting alternatives for employees who are remote and/or overwhelmed.
The follow-up? This is the key to the success of a training plan. In addition to ensuring the smooth running of training sessions, measure its effectiveness through, for example, satisfaction questionnaires.
