Empower your workforce and business: Training trends in the TIC business

Prioritizing people over profit helps build a successful business. More and more organizations worldwide are working to promote the well-being of employees and accelerate progress toward a sustainable future. This includes employees having the proper training solutions. Making efforts to reduce risk, protect continuity, improve performance, and drive organizational resilience is crucial for a sustainable and thriving business.

Enterprise training solutions provide various benefits to enhance employee performance and drive organizational, sustainable, and impactful growth. A recent study found that when companies offer comprehensive training programs, it has 218 percent higher income per employee than companies without formalized training. These companies also have a 24 percent higher profit margin.

The benefits of using enterprise training solutions:

• Meet your strategic and tactical objectives.

• Maximize investment linking results to organizational objectives.

• Use flexible and dynamic delivery formats.

• Foster and enhance the learning experience.

• Enhance competitiveness in retention and talent acquisition.

• Demonstrate leadership commitment to nurturing employee professional growth.

Some impactful trends in management system training will have an influence on TIC (testing, inspection, and certification) business in the next five years:

1.      Demands across diverse settings: The growth of virtual training is making it much easier for management systems managers to train people across several different locations. This will bring more benefits to complex organizational structures. But also, managers will need to consider factors like diversity of roles across geographies, differences in time zones, languages, and regional strategic priorities.

2.      Employee-led learning: The outdated approach of top-to-bottom training content design is fading. Companies now prioritize involving multiple stakeholders, particularly employees, in identifying skill gaps, priorities, interests, and delivery methods in related topics for training programs.

3.      Reduction in training budgets: The need to optimize returns on investment in training programs will continue to increase alongside leadership's dedication to enhancing qualifications. Training is of the highest importance to vouch that management systems work properly and reduce costly errors and non-conformities.

4.      Collaborative training: Work groups are diverse regarding age, language, location, experience, and education. Incorporating geographic and remote work requires leveraging innovative tools to foster collaboration and improve employee training.

5.      The AI surge: As in many other fields, AI (artificial intelligence) is prompting change. This includes content development, adaptive learning, and simultaneous translation. AI can influence workforce roles, skill development, and emotional intelligence.

Training can be delivered as a single project or may form part of a long-term learning and development partnership. It can vary from wide-ranging ISO management system programs to performance improvement, Lean Six Sigma, and soft skills training. The program can be delivered using a variety of methods. By providing tailored training via in-person sessions or online modules, like e-learning, you can meet the needs that your team requires.

There are many different training courses to help your team’s success. By employing enterprise training solutions, company-wide training can bring many advantages. These include consistency, alignment with your organization’s company goals, cohesiveness, efficiency, culture building, cost-effectiveness, and more.  While the process of determining an enterprise training solution is generic, the end solution is not. It’s tailored to your business needs.

Why enterprise training solutions?

• Upskill your workforce, driving performance and continual improvement.

• Address company-wide capability needs for daily and strategic goals.

• Promote consistent and effective training, delivered conveniently.

• Scale training to need, with central control of budget, administration, and ROI.

A case study:

BSI recently helped an organization in the professional services sector with a mature ISO 27001-based security system. The company trained over 300 employees across over 45 countries on the new standard requirements.

The company needed consistent training, similar experience in the delivery and comprehension of the content, and the need to track the effectiveness of the training. BSI proposed a thorough solution for this company, involving the implementation of an e-learning platform tailored to each employee's learning pace. The platform included integrated quizzes, exams, and interactive exercises to assure that employees are actively confirming their understanding of the material.

Using this solution, the company applied a singular training program globally, supporting uniform learning outcomes for all employees. Within a short amount of time, the entire organization was efficiently trained to meet the required standards.

BSI expert instructors provide customized training services for organizations, including multinational corporations, startups, government entities, and nonprofit organizations.