Menu
Menu

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Find work
    • Find work
    • MAX Connect
    MAX Employment Services
  • Improve your skills
    • Improve your skills
    • Find a course
    • Study with us
    • Learning resources
      • Living in Australia
      • Learning English
      • Using computers
    Training courses
  • Health and disability
    • Health and disability
    • Health assessments
      • Do you need an assessment?
      • Refer someone for a disability assessment
    • Manage your disability at work
    • Group health programs
    • NDIS and Disability Employment Services
    • Long-term disability
    • Therapy Services
    • School leavers and students
    • Injury or Illness
    Support services
  • Help and advice
    • Help and advice
      • Getting started
      • Resumes and cover letters
      • Improve your skills
      • Health and wellbeing
      • Applications and interviews
      • Job searching tools
      • Starting work
      • Ongoing support
    • Frequently asked questions
    • Your rights and privacy
    • Help with Centrelink
    • Useful contacts
    • Feedback and complaints
    Get the support you want
  • Employer services
    • Employer services
    • National partnerships
    • Find candidates
    • How we support employers
      • Financial support
      • Employee Assistance Program
    • Employ someone with disability
      • Benefits of diversity
      • Types of disabilities
    • Offer work experience
      • Join the PaTH program
      • Offer a traineeship
      • Be a work for the dole host
    • Our work with employers
    Find great staff
  • What we do
    • What we do
    • MAX Employment
      • jobactive
      • Disability Employment Services
      • NDIS School Leaver Employment Supports
      • Parents Next
    • MAX Support
      • Adult Migrant English Program
      • Skills for Education and Employment
      • Youth jobs PaTH
      • Vocational Training
      • Child Welfare Assessments
      • Disability Assessments
      • National Panel of Assessors
      • Program for Students with Disability
      • Therapy Services
    • MAX Community
      • Housing Employment Program
      • Opportunity Pathways Program
      • School Based Trainee Program
      • Prison-based services
    Our services and programs
  • About us
    • About us
    • Careers with MAX
    • Our customer promise
    • Our partners
    • MAXIMUS Worldwide
    • Our impact
    • Our leadership team
    • MAX Foundation
    Learn about MAX

Header Navigation Secondary Menu

  • News
  • Careers with MAX
  • Locations
  • Contact
  • Feedback and complaints

Language menu

  • ngôn ngữ tiếng Việt
  • اللغة العربية
  • پښتو ژبه
  • دری
  • 中文 Zhōngwén
  • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ
  • हिन्दी भाषा
  • 中文
  • Wikang Filipino
  • زبان فارسي
Aa

MAX Connect

Social Icons

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Youtube

Talk to our team

MAX solutions

MAX Solutions.

X

Services

  • Disability Employment Services
  • Assessments Australia
  • jobactive

Training Courses

  • Adult Migrant English Program
  • Skills for Education and Employment
  • PaTH Employabililty Skills Training

Articles

  • Getting Started
  • Resumes and Cover Letters
  • Health and Wellbeing

General

  • Careers
  • Find an office
  • Feedback and Complaints
  • FAQs
MAXsolutions
  • English
    Choose a language:
    • ngôn ngữ tiếng Việt
    • اللغة العربية
    • پښتو ژبه
    • دری
    • 中文 Zhōngwén
    • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ
    • हिन्दी भाषा
    • 中文
    • Wikang Filipino
    • زبان فارسي
  • Aa
  • MAXconnect
Search
Locations Contact

Breadcrumb

Home
  • Home
  • How to Train Your New Employees Effectively
  • How to Train Your New Employees Effectively

    Published by MAXSolutions on August 24 2020
    • Twitter
    • Facebook
    • Linked in
    employee training and development
    • Twitter
    • Facebook
    • Linked in

    Employee training

    Recruiting new staff can be a lengthy process. Scouring resumes, holding interviews, and deciding on candidates can take weeks. But just because you have settled on the best fit doesn’t mean the process is finished. Ensuring you have effective employee training programs to help your new hires adjust is the key to keeping them around and setting them up to benefit your organisation.

    Why employee training is important

    Did you know the average cost to hire an employee is around five thousand dollars? While that may seem like a lot what many employers forget is the time a position is vacant. Sixty-eight days on average in fact. That’s nearly two months of your team being under the pump, not to mention if employee training was not a focus in the past, the remaining team might really be taking a hit to their productivity.

     

    Employee training and development is crucial to retaining staff, particularly those with the experience and skills that provide real benefit to your business. MAX believes in the value of training and because of this our focus isn’t just on getting our customers ready for work. We understand the support that new employees and their employers require, that’s why we offer support to businesses in working with their staff to meet their training needs.

    Where to start

    You want to make sure that the first few days show your new starters what your business is about. Setting the tone right from the beginning is important. From a training point of view this means making sure any premade presentations or online modules are good to go and free of errors. Any live presentations you intend to make should be practiced. Don’t just wing it!

    Also keep in mind that not all training necessarily needs to be provided by a business leader or HR. sometimes the best lessons can be taught by the people that will be working alongside of them. Having some one that will be their colleague that has shown aptitude will give them a different perspective 

    Think of your audience

    Think of what is important for them to do their jobs effectively. While it may be good for different teams to understand what their colleagues do, the sales team won’t find value in explanations of the company’s IT infrastructure for example. You need to prepare your new hires with the tools to succeed, so make sure what your teaching is relevant to their role.

    While thinking of the content it is also good practice to consider how you will deliver the training. Remember that not all people learn in the same way, its best to make sure your training is provided in a variety of ways to ensure accessibility for all and makes sense for the role. For physical jobs for example, sitting in classroom reading manuals is probably not the best way to get them ready for work!

    Don’t lecture

    Reading from manuals or watching e-learning slides has its place employee training programs but be careful. Too much time spent passively learning increases the chance of it not being retained. Try to include as many practical uses for the lessons they are learning, even if it's through the dreaded role-play!

    Keep it social 

    On that theme it's important to give adequate breaks during the day to allow the new team members to socialize with other members of the team. As well as keeping them more engaged while they are training it, will help speed long their integration within the team too. It also helps them better understand the culture of the company when they see it in real life.

    Plan for the future

    If they won’t use the skills straight away don’t teach it! Overloading new employees with information they may not get any chance to put into practice is a waste of time. Teach what they need to know when they need to know it and when they can use it.

    Be aware that this is just a starting point for these new team members, employee training and development should be ongoing. In fact, lack of development is a key factor in staff turnover. So, ensuring that your staff are getting consistent training and development opportunities, will go a long way to retaining them.

    Review and feedback are critical

    Your employee training should be constantly evolving to meet the changing demands of the marketplace. Putting regular reviews in place for employees is great but employee training programs should also be standard procedure.

    Also, don’t be afraid to get feedback yourself. To ensure this feedback is constructive you should be enabling an open and positive workplace culture. This starts with everyone being accountable and seeking improvement so you should be no exception. 

    Whenever we place someone into a job, we make sure that both the customer and the employer are supported. If you are an employer and want extra support to help ensure you retain your new employees, talk to our team. We can also help large organisations develop more accessible approaches to recruitment and onboarding.

    Find the right employees for your business
    Tags
    • Employer
    • MAX Employment
    • Training
    • Log in or register to post comments
    Category
    Improve your skills

    Most popular help and advice

    What to wear to an interview?

    What to wear to an interview?

    Published by MAXSolutions on January 25 2021
     

    5 ways to sell yourself in a job interview

    5 ways to sell yourself in a job interview

    Published by MAXSolutions on April 27 2020
     

    6 ways to answer unusual interview questions

    6 ways to answer unusual interview questions

    Published by MAXSolutions on September 30 2018
     

    Tips to get an interview from cold calling.

    Tips to get an interview from cold calling.

    Published by MAXSolutions on December 7 2020
     
    More articles
    Was this article useful?
    Why did you choose Yes?
    Why did you choose No?

    Contact us

    • Have a question?

      Chat Now

      Find quick answers about employment services.

    • Customer Enquiries

      1800 603 503

      If you are a new or existing customer or have an enquiry about a service, contact our Customer Servicing Team

    • Need support?

      1800 807 505

      Talk to someone in our health team.

        

      If you need urgent help or are in an emergency, please dial 000.

      Alternatively please call:

      Lifeline: 13 11 14

      Beyond Blue: 1300 224 636

      Respect Domestic Family Violence Service: 1800 737 732

       

    Send us an email:

    • General enquiry
    • Register for Disability Employment Services
    • Register for a service
    • Feedback and complaints

    General Enquiry

    General Enquiry

    Published by MAXSolutions on July 19 2018

    Register for a service

    Register for a service

    Published by MAXSolutions on July 19 2018

    Register with us now

    Register with us now

    Published by MAXSolutions on July 19 2018

    Feedback and complaints

    Feedback and complaints

    Published by MAXSolutions on July 19 2018

    Please fill in the contact form below or   Complete a survey

    Categories Lists

    Getting started
    Applications and interviews
    Resumes and cover letters
    Health and wellbeing
    Improve your skills
    Job searching tools
    Starting work
    Ongoing support
    COVID-19

    Recent posts

    Motivation - tips for boosting motivation levels
    Setting goals and achieving them, the SMART way
    6 good habits of professional people
    How to Train Your New Employees Effectively
    Next Destination for Tourism Industry Workers  

    Monthly archive

    • January 2021
    • December 2020
    • November 2020
    • October 2020
    • September 2020
    • August 2020
    • July 2020
    • June 2020
    • May 2020
    • April 2020
    • November 2019
    • June 2019

    Pagination

    • Page 1
    • Next page Next

    Most popular help and advice

    What to wear to an interview?

    What to wear to an interview?

    Published by MAXSolutions on January 25 2021
     

    5 ways to sell yourself in a job interview

    5 ways to sell yourself in a job interview

    Published by MAXSolutions on April 27 2020
     

    6 ways to answer unusual interview questions

    6 ways to answer unusual interview questions

    Published by MAXSolutions on September 30 2018
     

    Tips to get an interview from cold calling.

    Tips to get an interview from cold calling.

    Published by MAXSolutions on December 7 2020
     
    More articles
    • Find a MAX office near you

      Office

      Our locations

       
    • Register with us

      Edit

      Register now

       
    • Talk to someone now

      Call

      Contact us

       
    • Let us know how we're doing

      Feedback

      Feedback

       
    Providing employment, disability and training services

    Providing employment, disability and training services in suburban and regional areas across Australia including Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Darwin, Adelaide, Hobart, Perth, Canberra.

    Providing employment, disability and training services

    Ensuring your safety and support

    If you need help or support, our offices are a safe environment.

    Contact us

    Language menu

    • ngôn ngữ tiếng Việt
    • اللغة العربية
    • پښتو ژبه
    • دری
    • 中文 Zhōngwén
    • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ
    • हिन्दी भाषा
    • 中文
    • Wikang Filipino
    • زبان فارسي

    Footer

    • Home
    • Privacy
    • Terms of use
    • Quality
    • Contact
    • Locations
    • Sitemap
    • MAXConnect

    Social Icons

    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Youtube

    © Copyright 2019 MAX Solutions. All rights reserved Registered Training Organisation: 0667

    Ask a question