Invest In Training Benefits Are Aplenty

Investment in training has multiple benefits. Training increases productivity of the employees in manifold ways. Tyres, like training, provide a long-term return when treated with appropriate care. Ignore them and they come back to bite very quickly

- Adam Gosling

Economic rationalisation, downsizing, efficiency drives – whichever label the spin doctors wish to apply in watching personnel with years or decades of experience and training walk out of the door, it can only be called a failing strategy.

A long-term strategy

Investment in training (‘investment’ is the apt term) is a long-term strategy which yields dividends over a time, and continues to pay dividends in time. You’re not going to make a huge profit by putting your money in the bank and garnering interest; but over a time, your investment will grow and the outcomes will increase. Unless you invest, there is little prospect, if any, for returns.

When John Powath started Asian Business Media, he didn’t go straight to the top of the publishing stakes. Like many fledgling publishers, he worked hard, investing his time and energies into people, to engage and enable them to do what they hadn’t previously been able to do. They assisted him in the growth of ABM to where it is today. Antony Powath continues the philosophies which his father established and demonstrated to be successful.

Tyre service personnel training

I read with great interest about the Indian Rubber Institute that has introduced a tyre service personnel training scheme. Having been active with the Australian tyre training qualification scheme for decades, I too lament the lack of progress in having the personnel who perform tyre service appropriately acknowledged and rewarded.

A tyre is a pressure vessel; personnel who service and maintain such pressure vessels should be qualified to provide safe outcomes. A tyre is not a simple device as many people assume.