Who is to remain relevant in the job market, it will be a life-long need to continue to learn. Not only in courses but also in the workplace, there is plenty of “on the road”.
those Who had hoped that, after his studies, gone forever say goodbye to the school and on the labour market are taken aback. A course here and a training there, we need to have a life-long learning and for our work to continue to do so.
But what do you do besides your job? From the research of the Research centre for Education and the Labour market, Maastricht University, shows that 54 per cent of the employees in each year of a course or a training programme. “These are promising numbers,” says Andries de Grip, professor of economics and director of the research center.
“Services like, for example, but employers are not willing to invest in it.”
Andries de Grip, professor of economics
There are, however, three probleemgroepen to whom the number is not as high: low-skilled workers, temporary workers, and people older than 55 years of age. “And that’s just the groups that need it,” said Grip.
In each of the three groups is made by the employee or the employer of the benefits of development are not always understood. “Services like, for example, but employers are not willing to invest in it. And, for people aged 55 and over, is the question of how much you are willing to invest before they retire.”
in Addition to the short-term are considered. “The people do not even notice most is that they are lagging behind in their knowledge. However, if you have, for example, is removed from the position or job, want to change, then this is the outstanding knowledge make it very difficult to find a new job,” said De Grip.
Learn to do new things < / p> However, his training isn’t the only way to learn. The British educator Charles Jennings, developed at the beginning of the century to the 70:20:10 principle in which 10 per cent is reserved for formal learning such as courses and training, you can do 20 per cent of all new knowledge, to learn from others. The vast majority of the learning is what you do at work, or simply said, with new things to do.
“I think it’s 70%, even just a little bit more is,” laugh and The Grip on the camera. His research showed that 85 per cent of the time people are at work, in educational activities, to spend informal, done a good job, to exercise, to a fellow who make things happen, you know, literature to read or a new skill to master.
strong> A conversation or a presentation of < / p> In certain sectors, it is education in the form of courses, what happens is a ‘must’. The doctors and technicians must be retrained in order to have the correct certificates to get their jobs at all, to be able to do it. “But in many other areas, there will be more emphasized, must be to develop, because it is not self-evident.”
“For executives there is no more to see who is the most intelligent, but the cause of the people.”
Marlieke Ketelaars, manager Of the Haven Academy < / p> In the marine service provider Of the Site, that’s a lot of technical work, to learn and to develop, partly, is required. “However, in addition to all of the required veiligheidscursussen, we are trying to motivate people to continue to develop,” according to Marlieke Ketelaars, who is responsible for the On Resort Spa. The company was last year named the best of the business academy, the Netherlands).
what is Striking is the attention paid to soft skills, such as: how the newest technologies work, but how to have a good discussion or giving a presentation. “Most of the people who work with us are hardcore geeks. But leadership is not about who is the most intelligent, but the cause of the people.”
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the Great advantage of all learning opportunities, is that there is no longer the standard for the course is to be played in the time that has to be learned. “Training has been inspirational for the day, but then you have to go to the order of the day. We have to look internally to what is best for a person to learn from. You might, for example, a colleague for many years, in a single stage to a different department, the duties of a colleague to temporarily take over in order to see if it’s for you.”
“If you give people too long in the same job to do, do they have a lot to learn.”
Andries de Grip, professor of economics
In this way, it is for the employees to another job within the company and be able to try it to see if it’s something in it for them. Ketelaars, “do you Have a technical background, but if you want to go to the commercial side of the business? Through the study of internal organisation, to tie people to the company.”
It is, according to the professor, and The Grip is a good way for employers to help employees to keep them motivated. “If you give people too long in the same job to do, do they have a lot to learn. Make sure employees are being challenged by different tasks, to-do, or a role change.’
