| Annual performance review time is often an | | | | encumbered by poor organizational backing (53%), |
| unpleasant and dreaded date on the calendar. Why is | | | | financial limitations (50%), and poor attendance |
| this the case? Oftentimes, it has to do with training. | | | | (45%). Eight in 10 of the managers polled advocated |
| If you know your annual performance review is | | | | training and believed it should be compulsory. |
| approaching, it might be a good time to review your | | | | Author of the report Charlotte Wolff said: "Line |
| LMS training experience with your employer, point | | | | managers are increasingly expected to take on more |
| out any extra courses you've taken to enhance your | | | | responsibility in some crucial areas of people |
| professional skills, or discuss plans to enroll in outside | | | | management, yet it appears that the training is not |
| training courses. | | | | evolving at the same pace." |
| After all, a performance review is meant to provide a | | | | With higher quality and greater accessibility of job |
| space not only for your manager to give you | | | | training offered online, as well as increasingly |
| feedback on your performance, but for you to | | | | internet-savvy employees in the business world, |
| reflect on the year of work and get to the root of | | | | more and more companies are opting to include |
| the reasons you might not be working to the best of | | | | cost-effective and customizable LMS instruction in |
| your ability. Your manager will appreciate your | | | | their training. However, you yourself may or may not |
| proactive plans and your desire to improve your skills. | | | | have had a robust training experience. |
| Furthermore, he or she may empathize when you | | | | Perhaps your training course was dry and |
| relate the challenges you've faced in your job and | | | | uninteresting, non-compulsory, or maybe it was too |
| during training. Management training, after all, is one | | | | fast or rushed through. Any of these factors are |
| area with a serious deficit. | | | | bound to have an enormous impact on employee |
| From the highest executives and downward, one of | | | | performance long-term. As Wolff noted, "In areas |
| the most common complaints about job training is its | | | | such as absence management, where good practice |
| inadequacy or even the lack thereof. According to | | | | can directly help the organization save on costs, I |
| the 2010 IRS Line Manager Training Survey, areas like | | | | would have thought that investment in the relevant |
| staff development, absence management, recruiting | | | | training would be clearly worthwhile." |
| and retention, and grievance handling are just a few | | | | Even if effective training was lacking as part of the |
| in which management training is reported as | | | | introduction to your current job, and perhaps this lack |
| inadequate. | | | | is reflected in your performance review, this is a |
| One hundred and twenty-three HR professionals | | | | good time to show your employer that you are |
| were surveyed. Nearly two-thirds (60%) of those | | | | proactive and search for LMS training that will |
| polled reported that their management training was | | | | enhance your professional skills. |