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Career growth is one of the most important aspects of finding a job that fits a person. Once somebody finds a job that they’re interested in or that has a solid financial package, they’re willing to invest more in the company - more time, more money, and more emotion- when the company has an equal investment in them. It’s important at that point that the employee feels that their career is equally important to that of their employer. Training opportunities are an excellent way to help promote career growth and act as a catalyst for future career advancement. Career growth opportunities at work are a simple way to prove this investment and create an avenue for advancement. In this blog, we’ll discuss the importance of providing career growth opportunities at work and some tips that will help level up your career.

Complacency is the enemy of progress, and while minor growth comes from the actual doing of standard job tasks at work, it’s easy to fall into complacency, especially when we know what we’re doing. The biggest requirement for growth (personal and professional) is challenge. There is no progress if employees aren’t continually challenged. Career growth opportunities can come in a variety of ways, and offering these opportunities at work has its own set of benefits.

Increased Engagement- Engagement between employees is a fantastic benefit of work-study. Engaged employees do a better job of the same work as others who are less than excited about the work. Engagement can look different depending on the type of growth in mind. For example, in exam review courses, employees have the opportunity to study together, gain new insights into subjects they were limited in before, and gain access to a pool of knowledge and experience they might otherwise not have been given.

Increased Retention- Offering training experiences within the workspace comes with the hope that employees will stay loyal to the company for the foreseeable future, but there is the expectation that sometimes, some will transfer to jobs that better suit them. Training that is job and company-specific while still giving employees the skills necessary to thrive anywhere is actually an excellent method of retaining top employees. With the proper investment in the employee, the employer may see a return on that investment by training and onboarding fewer employees.

Potential for Innovation- Training on top of work is a hefty task. It requires diligence, determination, and an extra seven hours in the day to complete. Alas, there are still only twenty-four, so creativity is necessary when it comes to the balance of both. The creativity necessary to complete both leads to innovation in the workplace that benefits the group as a whole.

Improved Performance- Because we all like a good challenge in our lives, employees who feel motivated by the opportunity for growth will rise to the challenge and do their best. This motivation will bleed into other areas of your organization and boost their performance as well.

Increased Opportunity for Internal Advancement- Employee retention is an often-overlooked benefit of training opportunities. Oftentimes, it can feel like training only serves the trainee and their own career. However, training with the specific intention of retaining top employees offers the company a greater opportunity to maintain their own employee pool over a longer period of time. There will always be that turnover rate, but when the opportunity is offered for internal career advancement, and employees are constantly trained with the company in mind, retention increases, and the budget for onboarding employees can be drastically reduced. Not to mention that the employee is already trained in the company's standard operating procedures, so the training time is also reduced.

Training within the workplace can take your career to new places, and the opportunity to take advantage of career development within the workplace is not something offered to everybody. Nor is it always a formal event. Here are a few tips to use when deciding on training opportunities and if they’re likely to take you where you want to go.

Employee training is an important tool for the creation and development of new career opportunities. Whether the new career opportunity is within the original organization or in a new one, the training instances received in their various methods develop employees who are prepared mentally and physically to meet the demands of their new job description.

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