Hello Steemit community! For my first formal post, leaving what is the presentation of oneself in the network, I decided to focus specifically on the branch of my profession that I have had to practice in this first stage as a professional. Since I graduated from the university (6 years ago) and until now, I have "loaded with the cross" to exercise the production of training in human capital. I make this reference, since most people (not to say all of them), visualize the fact of training as an unnecessary expense:
"Why do I have to go to classes, if I already studied!", "I am more productive in my job "...
And a lot of excuses that lead me to ask one of the questions that occur to me when writing the title of the article:
Why is not the training of personnel considered an investment?
First of all, we etymologically define both terms:
• Training, preparation with the purpose of improving physical or intellectual performance.
• Investment is an economic term, with meanings of business management, or finance. The word investment conceptualizes the idea of using resources with the purpose of developing some benefit, this being in any sense (economic, political, social, personal satisfaction, among others).
Use resources in order to achieve some benefit ... Social, personal satisfaction, among others. Let's establish that this is the main objective of an investment, in whatever sense it may be. If at the conceptual level the training is "any preparation to improve the physical or intellectual performance", then we have to invest in the training of a person in order to use it as a rich resource in preparation, to increase their performance at the productive level and reach some benefit
Now, I write getting into the role of a manager, supervisor. Fulfilling the role of any employer, or someone who needs personnel that produces or offers a service effectively; Well, what better way to achieve this than by offering them the privilege of enriching and expanding their competences in an integral way through study. In an organizational sense, the advantages of having a trained staff range from the increase in business dividends, to the improvement in the behavior of human resources, because the enrichment of their knowledge precedes a series of variations in their work behavior , unleashing a new source of motivation to attend work daily, get involved in the development of the organization progressively, and even becomes involved in activities that are not immersed in his job description, but considers it convenient to execute them, because he believes himself capable to do it.
An intelligent man is one who knows how to be smart enough to hire people smarter than him. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The success of a process of selection of personnel, lies in knowing fully the need for which is proceeding. You must be an informed manager, occupied with the human capital you have, and the strengths and weaknesses of each member of your team, as this is the factor that will mainly graduate the time and scope of your objectives to medium and long term. Hiring people who are not willing to continue growing both personally and professionally (because they think that since they finished a career and already have a job they do not need to study more), it has become a marked trend in recent years in our country. (Venezuela). We find ourselves absorbed in a situation where, as part of a work circle, we are not allowed to think about anything beyond our remuneration, and this limits us as individuals and as workers. In this era of migration, "talent drain" as it is called in administrative terms, there is something more suitable than continuing to enrich the skills that have been formed, whether in a theoretical, practical or holistic manner. Undoubtedly, the greater experience weighed with a university degree, is a controversy in the industry, because many professionals are alarmed and even offended, when a "bachelor", when "that average technician" obtains a greater progress in the organizational structure; without noticing that it is the effort in training and orienting oneself to specialize progressively in a certain task, that is what has given them that "privilege."
However, it is not only this that we should consider a motivating factor to develop our career in a company or organization; but that eagerness with which we are born of overcoming ourselves, that desire that our greatest and best competition is in the mirror. How easy it is to accept a job because you earn more, and not because you work better! It is time that, regardless of the economic situation we are going through, we prioritize ourselves, visualize ourselves as successful, powerful people, and know how to orient our personal objectives in the same direction as our professional objectives, and have cohesion between what we want and need. A frustrated professional, is an unhappy professional, and no matter in which country of the world you live, remember that
"If you love your work, you will never have to work."
Drafting by: Iramy Jiménez.
