Professional development can be tricky sometimes. Every individual is looking to advance their careers, but few can find opportunities or the motivation to undergo professional development to achieve these goals.
Let’s discuss a few crucial things you need to know about professional development in more detail.
What Is Professional Development?
“Professional development” refers to every effort made to inculcate new skills or maintain the current academic position.
What Does Professional Development Entail?
Professional development could include attending conferences or practicing and polishing your current skillset. Obtaining formal and non-learning learning opportunities may also fall under professional development.
Increasing Productivity with Professional Development
Making sure all employees are productive daily is difficult for business owners. On the other end of the spectrum, employees also sometimes struggle with keeping themselves productive throughout their work.
According to an interesting study of professionals, employees with professional development opportunities are 15% more engaged at work.
The reason why professional development has such a significant impact on the productivity levels of employees is for a variety of reasons. These reasons may include:
- Professional development fills in the gaps: Whether you are undergoing some new form of training or simply revising an old skillset, you are likely to be constantly reminded of any deficiencies or weaknesses that you may have. At the same time, you can recognize how to fill these gaps and overcome any weaknesses throughout your professional development program.
Once individuals learn how to conquer these issues, their productivity levels can increase tremendously.
- Professional development allows you to learn skills that are up-to-date: Employees who undergo professional development often attend endeavors that are updated.
For example, a new conference would offer insight into improved methods on how to go about your work.
Thus, you can easily update your skillset to meet the challenges of the modern era. Modern skills have a tremendous focus on time management, which in turn, increases productivity levels.
How Professional Development Increases Job Satisfaction
The connection between professional development and job satisfaction has been a topic that has been discussed and researched extensively over the last couple of years. In fact, a study even concluded that there should be a keen focus on professional development to increase job satisfaction.
According to one study, forty-three out of a hundred new employees quit within the first 90 days of a new job (Work Institute, 2019). This statistic emphasizes how integral job satisfaction is since it significantly contributes to employees leaving their jobs.
Professional development can increase job satisfaction by providing employees with new skills to increase their productivity and a chance to update their knowledge about their current work. Updated knowledge is sure to develop more excitement in individuals.
Business owners who provide professional development opportunities for employees also reflect how much they value their employees through this move. Being appreciated by your boss is sure to increase anybody’s job satisfaction.
Finding a sponsor/mentor who will help you grow your career
Remember always to pick a mentor who will help you grow your career. You do not want just any ordinary person. You want a professional. Some key attributes of a helpful mentor that you should look out for include:
- Someone who has experience in your field of interest.
2. Someone who values time.
3. Someone who is easy to contact.
4. Someone who is a good listener.
5. Someone who can answer your questions precisely.
For more information and partnership with professional development that drives results for yourself, organizational leadership, and employees contact us today.
Meeting Facilitation & Retreats
Change is scary and inevitable. Communicating change to your team or navigating change personally can be paralyzing. The other side of change should present opportunities for transformation.
Change doesn’t have to be difficult! Transformation can be fulfilling and increase productivity. Our team of high-energy professional developers, speakers, and trainers deliver powerful messages to inspire, motivate and transform your organizational culture and employees.
We help your organization take steps in the right direction with ease by implementing creative team building activities, skill-based workshops, brain-storming meetings, and life hacks that will ensure everyone’s creativity and collaborative potential will never be untapped again.
We consider your objectives first, build you a tailor-made development experience and then lead your team to success. The outcome? A bunch of passionate employees with better skills who are always looking forward to what’s next.
Virtual Reality & Technology Solutions
It is a fact that people learn and retain more by doing! Fortune 500 companies are integrating VR experiences into their customer service, culture, and skills training and so should you.
We help our clients develop immersive training to engage employees, increase productivity and reduce attrition.
VRE Training Solutions specializes in VR activities that transform leadership and encourages high-performance team building.
Corporate Solutions
Our customized training solutions, delivered to public- and private-sector clients, reflect our love of learning and motivate participants to want more.
We know that knowledge is power, and applied knowledge is wisdom. To that end, VRE provides high-energy, life-changing learning experiences that remain with participants long after trainings are completed.
Business Services
Are you busy working ON your business? Or IN your business? Are you building systems? Are your processes documented? Do you need to improve efficiency within your business?
Business services are not just text and numbers. They are a collection of tasks that rely on each other and require specific functionality for them to work in your business context. The software you use should seamlessly integrate with the other tools you use. Our business services are designed to help you build capacity and systems. We partner with you to build the business you need now, so you can focus on building the business you’ve always dreamed of. Yes, that’s right – we help you focus on what really matters: running your business!
If your goal is to scale your business and build capacity. By that we mean are you ready to go to the next level in revenue generation and build a team to operate your organization successfully, contact us today!
Training
Training costs can take your business by surprise. When budgets are tight, training is often the first to go.
At a time of rapidly changing technology, training is necessary more than ever. You need your staff to be competent, up-to-date, and efficient with their skills to remain competitive in a local, national, and global marketplace.
Follow this link to find out more about our T.E.A.M.S. Methodology and training process along with more educational resources for you and your team.
Speaking Engagements
Companies spend more and more on internal employee engagement activities designed to inspire and motivate employees.
If you’re looking for ways to improve employee engagement, this may be the most effective way to do so.
We coordinate and produce speaking engagements for individuals and companies. Our speakers are high-energy experts within their field or in a specific subject. All our speakers have a proven track record in a particular directory of experience, or proven results from implementing their idea or innovation. Each speaker is assessed by an independent person from outside the organization to ensure all criteria are met.
Professional Development
You are either developing or you’re dying. The professional world is becoming increasingly competitive and constantly changing, developing your skills and continually learning is the most important part of achieving your business and career goals. Technologies and best practices are evolving and progressing in every industry, making it paramount to applying knowledge.
You have knowledge and skills. Now learn how to position yourself as the top competitor in the market! Learn what hiring managers look for in a candidate, develop winning strategies to present yourself as the right person for that position, as well as how to network, prepare for interviews and much more!
Coaching
Our lives are becoming overly complicated, and we are often overwhelmed by expectations, pressures, and responsibilities. We may feel stuck in one place and wonder if we are where we should be or if we are headed in the right direction in our careers, businesses, and lives.
We have top business and life coaches. VRE Training Solutions has helped thousands of professionals deliver outstanding performance in their careers and businesses. Let’s schedule a call to start your journey to accountability and goal achieving.
Coaches help YOU raise your performance in all areas of life. Turning good into great!
Transformation starts with YOU!!