Firstly, let us look at a few good reasons why business owners must continue to train their employees and allow them time and support to attend course training:

• Development of employees in the workplace – course training helps in optimising the use of human resource that further helps the employee to achieve the organisational goals as well as their individual goals.
• Development of Human Resources – course training helps to provide an opportunity and broad structure for the development of human resources’ technical and behavioural skills in the workplace. It also helps the employees in attaining personal growth.
• Development of skills – course training helps with increasing the job knowledge and skills of the employees at each level. It helps to expand the horizons of human brainpower and an overall personality of the employees.
• Productivity – course training helps in increasing the productivity of the employees that helps the business further to achieve its long-term goal.
• Team spirit – course training helps in building the sense of teamwork, team spirit, and inter-team collaborations. It helps in forming the enthusiasm to learn within the employees.
• Business Culture – course training helps to develop and improve the business’s health culture and effectiveness. It helps in creating the learning culture within the workplace.
• Business Climate – course training helps building the positive perception and feeling about the business. The employees get these feelings from leaders, subordinates, and peers.
• Quality – course training helps in improving upon the quality of work and work-life.
• Healthy work environment – course training helps in creating a healthy working environment. It helps to build good employee relationship so that individual goals align with business goals.
• Morale – course training helps in improving the morale of the work force.
• Image – course training helps in creating a better corporate image.

Overall positivity – course training helps in developing leadership skills, motivation, loyalty, better attitudes, and other aspects that successful workers and managers usually display.

By looking at this list, it is clear that all businesses can benefit from course training. Many corporate entities have training and training support in place to assist their employees to train for their jobs. Many companies will regularly send employees on courses to update their knowledge and learn more about the latest trends in the field.

If you do not work for a big company that takes control of your development and training needs, you will have to do so yourself. You must continuously explore ways to make yourself indispensable to the company. You can do that by attending course training on your own initiative if your company does not provide training. You can develop yourself by learning more skills and stand out from your colleagues, being able to snatch up that promotion or manager’s position.

Any training is of benefit, no matter what you learn, that knowledge and skills you will always have and will be a great extra on your curriculum vitae when applying for other positions.

If you are a school leaver with no further training, it is advisable to choose a college and course to suit your career goals. You must first study a course to place you in the right career direction. Once employed, you can study additional courses to develop yourself further.

In South Africa, there is a huge skills shortage, which is another reason people must train and study to reach the highest possible position available to them. If one look at the statistics South Africa has 1 engineer for every 3200 people compared to 1 for every 130 in china, 250 in Europe and 450 in Australia. South Africa’s government list of scarce and critical skills shows that there is a shortage of 400000 teachers in all subjects, which includes teachers at FET colleges. In 2008, there was a shortage of 22000 accounting specialists – 5300 of whom should be chartered accountants. There are 70000 positions available in Information Technology but only 17000 learners have qualified over the last 10 years. There is a need for 30000 registered nurses and 10000 pharmacy assistants.

All this shows a need for further education and training under the youth. If you are willing to study and get the necessary training, you can employ in one of the industries where there is a shortage. This is a wonderful opportunity for all school leavers wishing to study and find employment.

Another reason you might want to enrol for a training course may be to develop yourself in a different career direction. Maybe you are home executive wanting to earn an income from home. Maybe your company retrenched you and now need to start a different career. Maybe you are qualified in your field of work, but now you want to start your own business, and you need training on how to go about doing that.

Whatever your reason for wanting to study is, it will always be worth your while. Knowledge is power and with the correct training through a course that is suited for your needs, you will reap the benefits.