Showing posts with label training. Show all posts
Showing posts with label training. Show all posts

Saturday, 21 May 2016

Attention on Training Contributes to Values & Retention

Human Resource has been found to be the most crucial factor affecting smooth and successful running of any organization. Businesses the world over have realized the importance of recruiting and retaining the best possible talents, regardless of the type of industry and nature of work involved. 

Although employers understand the need for a reliable and skilled workforce, they often forget the vital role played by training and development of employees. When it comes to the question of a trade off between cutting costs and skill development, employers lean more toward the former.

Significance of Training

With overall changes occurring on a regular basis in all processes and technologies, and considering the future of any organization, it becomes inevitable to invest in need-based training in any business—as this is one way of improving values and ethics among employees. A few of the predominant factors that entail proper Training process are listed below:

  • Performance & Productivity Improvement: Even if a team is equipped with skilled employees, the ability to adapt and acquire new skills and knowledge is vital for employees to conduct their activities more effectively—thus increasing productivity and retention rate
  • Face Competition: Equipping employees with up-to-date procedures, tools, and technologies ensures that the organization stays competitive with peers while enhancing its values among employees
  • Enhanced Morality: A positive frame of mind is developed along with effective training and enthusiastic participation of staff members—Encouragement earned with training boosts the morale of employees considerably, eradicating negativities
  • Empowerment and Motivation: Today’s freshers are potential managers for tomorrow—employers who respond to needs of organizational members make it a point to drive and motivate them, aiding in their development as future executives and leaders

Benefits of Training & Development

Apart from increasing the general organizational climate and goodwill, training has been found to be a proven process to attain certain high values and to lift the reputation of the organization. 

A few have been listed below:

  • Increase in Job Satisfaction
  • Adaptability to new processes and technologies
  • Motivation and harmony among employees
  • Reduction in Employee turnover
  • Efficient functioning and better financial position
  • Innovative and exclusive practices

There are a number of training methods suiting to the specific industry and the nature of processes involved. Generally, considering factors such as technological needs, financial improvement, and workers welfare, effective training must be given in an encouraging manner for creating a positive impact among employees, increasing talent retention, and thus help the organization to progress.

Sunday, 3 April 2016

Is Social learning powerful?

With innovative tools and unprecedented technologies being developed on the go, it becomes vital to learn and be updated, not only for freshers but also experts in any field. Learning is assumed to be a cognitive process taking place in a social context, according to Social Learning Theory. This theory also postulates that the learning process occurs through observation and direct instruction even if motor reproduction or direct reinforcement is absent.

Significance of Social Learning

There has been a vast development on all industrial fronts in the world during the last few decades. Business and technology have been evolving on a massive manner, paving way for creation of newer and unheard of devices and processes that help make human beings’ lives better and comfortable. With inventions and improvements come the necessity for learning and acquiring new skills and processes. Social Learning, when applied and conducted in small and easy-to-maintain groups, ensures nurturing productivity and creating innovative opportunities.

Just as a child learns everything by watching others perform different actions, grown up people in the Business and Industry set up can also learn various processes and procedures clearly by watching peers and experts’ performance. Learning by watching others has always been a continuous process, be it in financial sector or technical field.

Benefits of Social Learning

It is well-known fact that technology influences education. Social Learning networks offer one of the best platforms for the next generation learning methods.



  • Social Learning Promotes Confidence through Coordination: Learning is always attractive when you learn from peers and partners rather than from elders or professionals. Collaborating on a problem produces different ways to attain practical solutions. Free exchange of ideas and views causes quickly arriving at better results.
  • Unorthodox Question-Answer Sessions and Free Conversations:  Social Learning increases transparent communication among all organizational members—facilitating easy and open exchange of comments and views, thus improving knowledge of the employees.
  • More Effective than other Methods of Learning: learning from others, in the presence of others, and in groups, provides opportunities for better learning that would otherwise have been impossible. For one-to-one learning process to occur there is no need for any teacher or expert. Just by having someone with more skill or knowledge will do.

Why it is Considered as Better
Happening outside of a formal class room or a planned structure, Social Learning focuses on sharing information, collaboration, and co-operation, thus improving possibility of wide and in depth knowledge being spread across the organization in a practical and fast way.

Sunday, 27 March 2016

Why to Develop people at Workplace? - McOxley Academy

Every successful organization has been built by the committed people whom it was those organization’s commitment to develop them for this success. In today’s competitive environment, it is extremely important to continually invest time, effort and train the people to keep the organization ahead of the competitions.

Equipping individuals with required competencies (Combinations of knowledge, skills and ability to do) is the foremost critical for the business to meet the demands and challenges.  Business ensures that organizations prosper and flourish even during economic downturn if the organization has required skill availabilities within the organization and need not depend on external workforces.



McOxley is a leading Learning Organization in Chennai and supports Corporate(s) of both IT and Non IT industries for all their training needs.

Following programs have been rated very effective by most of the corporate for whom we conducted these programs:

·         Presentation skills
·         Problem Solving skills
·         Leadership Development
·         Negotiation skills
·         Consultative Skills
·         Time Management
·         Conflict Management
·         Decision Making skills
·         Interpersonal skills
·         Aggressive Vs Assertiveness

Contact details: Phone: 044-43556969 / Email: training@mcoxley.om /