A smart and skillful manager hiring employees should be able to determine whether they have the ability to cope with the assigned duties and whether they possess enough knowledge and nerves to undertake or fulfill their duties even in the most stressful situations. Once all these expectations are met, that’s when you take them through training and development programs so that they can achieve the skills required by the organization. Otherwise, you might be wasting your resources. But according to the leadership at Dell Computer Corporation, training, developing, and retaining employees has always been a big challenge, especially when they are new employees, and you are expecting them to continue capitalizing on career opportunities. There was also an issue with the recruitment process, where it was a bit challenging to find the right talent in the first place.

To address these issues, Dell modified its core training and development programs, technologically, so as to boost employee effectiveness. It also decided to elevate its top-performing employees to executive-level positions as it sought to maintain the same level of experience and expertise they’ve had for a long time. According to the management, the evolving nature of today’s technology is really playing a big role in enhancing the training and development efforts, and that it’s easier when taught to the existing employees.

Moreover, the extremely fast development of the tech world is really making it difficult for businesses to keep up with the changing demands from clients. But the truth is, as many companies find it difficult to invest time and money in training new employees, training the existing employees on the latest technology has actually become the latest trend. What this does is to help the company create lasting employee satisfaction and experience with their existing employees.

Apart from Dell Computer Company, this trend has actually become pretty popular in so many companies, not only in Singapore but across the world as well. It is understandable given how emerging technologies such as Big Data, Hadoop, Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing, Data Science, DevOps, etc. are in demand. And training the existing employees about these technologies is much easier and cost-effective as compared to finding new resources. Apart from these emerging technologies, there are also the ever-popular technologies, including Java, ASP.net, PHP, and many others, which are also quite in demand and should be introduced in training so as to up-scale the employees’ overall productivity and effectiveness.

Skills and knowledge are very crucial to any company, especially in the current market. It is through the physical structure as well as the intellectual capital that a company is evaluated. And the best way to ensure that your company improves its intellectual capital is through regular training and development programs. Training your employees not only boosts their performance and your company’s reputation, but also addresses any weak links in the organization. Most importantly, just training isn’t enough, in this case, you have to ensure that the training is technologically-inclined, for the best results.