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Simple answer - YES, it is critical to business survival so YES get involved in training your team.

The importance of training is in the opportunity to strengthen your employees’ existing skills and learn new ones, helping to boost individual and organisational performance. Training allows employees to become more effective while also increasing job satisfaction and reducing employee turnover.

Create a training plan

Take the time to be targeted and specific about each individual training need as well as the company benefit, if someone is receiving and undertaking training show both sides of the equation for both them and the company to acknowledged and be recognised for. Training will always be more valuable if the purpose is visible and understood from the outset.

It would be prudent, regardless of how large or small an organisation to work through a training plan after completing an in-depth training needs analysis. This means you must spend the time to really know the business direction, the people in the business and what you want them to achieve for themselves and for the organisation.  I believe you can run a business from a training plan as it will mean you will have spent the time to know the critical stuff about the business and its key asset - the people.  

Often, I hear 'but not all staff need training' - I would argue yes they do. It might be refreshing knowledge and skills, it may be learning new stuff or it may be preparing for what is to come. It may even be passing on the knowledge they have. All staff need to be on a learning journey to help support organisation growth and development.