Training for the Holidays

 

In September, employees realize the summer is over and begin preparing for Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Around this time everyone is booking off their time for Christmas. December arrives and the office becomes a ghost town with the few left who are not eligible for vacation or have exhausted their vacation time. Management teams are behind closed doors busy strategically planning for the next year. In my years of experience I know that there is nothing happening in December and it's a good time to be at work stress s free, no deadlines and deliverables. Guess what! This is a great opportunity for businesses to strategically plan training and development initiatives for employees that are at work in December. Management teams will often have objections of time and money as reasons to not engage in training. December is that time when production has slowed and in some cases comes to a complete halt. This is one of the opportune times to engage employees in training. This is the solution for the objections of time and money. So next December, when your business or department looks like a ghost town….think Training. Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho.