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Business people who stop learning stop earning. Here are some tips for incorporating continuing education into your company.
A recent article in the Chicago Tribune questioned the benefit of continuing one’s education. It seemed that doing so would only rack up more debt with sketchy-at-best benefits to one’s paycheck. While that may be true from the higher education standpoint the legal forms site EasyAgreements (EA) believes that continuing education is essential when placed in the right context.
“Continuing education for the sake of continuing education doesn’t produce much of a benefit” said the EA spokesperson. “But continuing education with a clear razor-focused purpose is vital not just to your business’s success but its survival.”
To help business owners find a place for continuing education in their business the site has shared the following tips.
Tip 1: Identify where your industry is heading.
Seeing the future is not an exact science notes the site spokesperson but the mere act of trying to see and make guesses at where it’s going does one’s business a service. “As a business owner or manager you have to be able to look ahead at the internal and external issues that affect your business. That means learning more about the state of your industry as a whole and how it might be affected one three five and even 10 years down the road. This means a lot of reading and a lot of talking to people in your industry or in industries that affect your industry.”
Tip 2: Identify where your business is heading.
Having a feel for where your industry is heading should give you a better idea of where your business should go the spokesperson notes. “No business owner worth his salt will simply fly by the seat of their pants. They’ll have short- and long-term goals for where they want the business to be. Figure out where you’re going and then incorporate continuing education for the skills and knowledge that you and your employees will need. This means a lot of talking to your employees and getting them in on the vision and the training that is to come.”
Tip 3: Stay out front on technology.
Nothing has the power to cut existing jobs and automate like technology and while those cuts usually result in new jobs with higher pay different skill sets and a better quality of life they can also be damaging if you don’t see them coming. As the EA spokesperson notes “Technology can ruin your business or take it to the next level. The outcome is tied directly to your willingness to learn it.”
Tip 4: Make the time you don’t have.
Many business owners put off continuing education because there “just isn’t time for it.” After all who has the two and a half hours of training time it will take to teach a task you could do yourself in 30? “What business owners fail to realize when they don’t make the time and resources available for continuing education is that any loss of time in the present will be made up tenfold once the skills or knowledge has been taught. In other words” the spokesperson says “you have to make the time you don’t have or you won’t have a business deserving of anyone’s time down the road.”
About EasyAgreements: EasyAgreements.com provides affordable legal forms for a wide variety of functions. From employee contract template forms to pet custody agreements and all areas in between every legal need is covered.
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