Accelerate Your Growth: A Self-Check for Internal Training Excellence
Is your construction company set up for success with a robust internal training plan? With effective training, you can expect benefits like increased productivity, reduced mistakes, and improved employee satisfaction. By empowering your people with essential skills and clear career paths, you're not just building structures, but a future-proof, resilient company. Let's explore where you stand currently. Check where you are at with these crucial questions:
Do you have a documented onboarding process for new hires?
Are your work processes clearly documented?
Is it apparent how personnel can progress in their careers within your company?
Is there a digital hub where staff can access policies, procedures, and training?
Do your staff constantly need to ask for answers to their workplace questions?
Are you digitally tracking staff training, health, safety courses, tickets, and certifications?
Can you provide a clear outline of your per-person training costs?
What's your employee turnover rate?
Do you believe you could reduce waste or mistakes with better-trained personnel?
How confident are you in the capabilities of your supervisors?
Unearth the Potential of Your Construction Company
Many construction companies struggle with growth because they don’t have a training plan for employees, leading to high turnover, waste, ineffective staff, and major inefficiencies. Critical issues include:
A lack of clear, documented processes and onboarding procedures.
There's no established system for personnel career progression.
Access to policies, procedures, and training isn't digital or easy.
The company relies too heavily on in-person inquiries, leading to inefficiencies.
The tracking of staff training and certifications is manual or non-existent.
When we first work with folks who scored low on this self-assessment, we see real problems with poorly documented processes and procedures, no career progression pathways and paper based policies, procedures and training. Here’s why you need to fix this ASAP.
Documented Processes and Procedures
Having well-documented processes is crucial for smooth operations. Why? It sets the stage for consistency, safety, and quality in your work. Start by detailing your procedures for different tasks - from simple tasks like filling out a timesheet to complex ones like operating machinery. A construction company, for example, reduced on-site accidents by 30% by simply providing detailed SOPs for equipment use.
Create Clear Career Progression Pathways
The best companies have clear paths for career advancement. Why? Because without a clear pathway, employees can feel stuck, leading to high turnover rates. When you outline clear progression paths for every role in your company, showcasing potential growth and opportunities, employees see your workplace as a long term career. For instance, a foreman might progress to a site supervisor, then a project manager, with the necessary training and experience.
Digitize Access to Policies, Procedures, and Training
The light at the end of the tunnel? A digital hub called a learning management system (LMS) where all your employees can access relevant information anytime, anywhere. This is what all your previous steps ladder up to - creating an easily accessible, all-inclusive digital resource. This LMS can house everything - from your newly documented processes to career progression pathways and all the training content and validation you can think of. Not only does this empower your employees with information, but it also fosters a culture of self-service and continuous learning, essential for a thriving construction company.
Your Custom Learning Blueprint
The answer to these problems is a learning blueprint. With a learning blueprint, these hurdles can be easily overcome, paving the way for a more productive and engaging work environment. Here’s what our clients get from us in their learning blueprint:
Clearly defined business goals aligned to people performance
Assessment of current stage of training vs. best in class future state
Desired performance that’s needed for several core roles
Report of gaps in the skill, knowledge and mindset for several core roles
List of Pre Boarding activities, Orientation activities, On-boarding and company specific training that is needed
What comes after that? We link arms with you until your LMS is set up, courses are built and your employees are interacting with the new content. Our goal is to get you set up before we pass the torch to your team for ongoing maintenance.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Are you ready for your training blueprint? Contact Boost LD to learn if this is the right fit for you.
