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3 More Tips to Motivate Your Employees to Attend Training

While companies spend hundreds of dollars on employee training, they often don’t measure the outcomes of training. But here’s the truth about training. No matter how much you spend on training, nothing works until your employees are motivated enough to learn new things. So, before you training room rental or classroom rental for your next training session, here are some more tips on how to motivate your employees to attend training.

1. Manage costs of attending training
When an employee considers attending a training session, he observes some costs which might not be monetary in nature but are still costs. Like psychological cost when they know the session is not going to be relevant for them. The time cost as they would feel how the time would be wasted they could be doing certain other ‘’important’’ and ‘’work-related’’ task in the same time. To motivate employees, you must be able to help them understand what value they can get from attending a training session.

2. Help employees battle with fear
Fear of the unknown is real. In case of training, the fear could be regarding the subject matter of training. As an employer or training provider, it is your responsibility to explain the training method to your employees, so they can attend the training with the peace of mind that learning would be fun and exciting. Ease the employees into a drastic change and evolve them eventually by boosting morale that they can do it.

3. Incentives are overrated.
It may seem a little out of the way, but recent researches have proved that if a training session is associated with an incentive, then the focus could shift from the actual learning to the reward for learning. However if it is important to incentivize, then instead of completion of training module, the incentive should be given on proper implementation of what was learned in the practical scenario.