A while ago now a blog was posted here about three distinct cost cutting ideas for beating the credit crunch. This month’s blog considers one of those ideas, how your people can learn the basic skills needed to pass on the expertise of expensive consultants. The idea is simple! Use those consultants to build up the skill set of your people, so your people can pass on expertise within your business in the future.
With the need to continually keep your business up-to-date with technology and changing markets there are skills needed that your people don’t necessary have. This means you have to buy in the skill through external consultancy with all the cost, inconvenience and time that this will entail. You buy it in. It’s used to fulfil a particular purpose and then it moves out of the business until it’s needed again.
Wouldn’t you like to have someone within your business that has the skills you need, when you need them? Then if you are buying in the skills at some point, increase your return on investment by taking the opportunity for your staff to work alongside the consultant and learn from their experience.
Just imagine all the extra skills that can be built in this way. For example, the marketing guru teaches your PA the fundamentals of building a marketing campaign. The sales trainer develops your sales manager to deliver basic sales training to their team. Think of the potential that each of these people display each time they practise their new skill. And often the skill set is very generic. At its most basic level its project management, training or facilitation. So in the future the PA will be able to project manage the next ad campaign and the Sales Manager will be able to train coaches to deliver process training in the call centre.
The trick is to have people in your business that are flexible and willing to develop. The consultant resource you buy in needs to be able to work alongside your people. Having hands on mentoring from an expert is a great way to gain knowledge, skills and experience. Through this form of learning and development, watch your people grow in confidence and show their commitment through taking on the job at hand.
Many external providers today value being employed as a coach and mentor as well as an expert. The people they work alongside provide the organisational context so that the skills that they bring are a compliment to the way things work around here.
If you want to know more about how to broaden the skills of your team through coaching and mentoring from external providers then please get in touch, or see how this can be done through our website.
With the need to continually keep your business up-to-date with technology and changing markets there are skills needed that your people don’t necessary have. This means you have to buy in the skill through external consultancy with all the cost, inconvenience and time that this will entail. You buy it in. It’s used to fulfil a particular purpose and then it moves out of the business until it’s needed again.
Wouldn’t you like to have someone within your business that has the skills you need, when you need them? Then if you are buying in the skills at some point, increase your return on investment by taking the opportunity for your staff to work alongside the consultant and learn from their experience.
Just imagine all the extra skills that can be built in this way. For example, the marketing guru teaches your PA the fundamentals of building a marketing campaign. The sales trainer develops your sales manager to deliver basic sales training to their team. Think of the potential that each of these people display each time they practise their new skill. And often the skill set is very generic. At its most basic level its project management, training or facilitation. So in the future the PA will be able to project manage the next ad campaign and the Sales Manager will be able to train coaches to deliver process training in the call centre.
The trick is to have people in your business that are flexible and willing to develop. The consultant resource you buy in needs to be able to work alongside your people. Having hands on mentoring from an expert is a great way to gain knowledge, skills and experience. Through this form of learning and development, watch your people grow in confidence and show their commitment through taking on the job at hand.
Many external providers today value being employed as a coach and mentor as well as an expert. The people they work alongside provide the organisational context so that the skills that they bring are a compliment to the way things work around here.
If you want to know more about how to broaden the skills of your team through coaching and mentoring from external providers then please get in touch, or see how this can be done through our website.
