Do You Give Your Employees Refresher Training?

From time to time everyone needs to have refresher training on the tasks they handle regularly. It is surprising sometimes to find out that an employee has been doing something incorrectly for a long time and no one has caught the mistake. Don’t assume that just because someone has been handling the same task for a year or more, that they have mastered the correct way of doing it. We all slip into habits that may or may not be correct. Schedule refresher training for each member of your staff at least once a year. If you can’t take several days to check and review everything all at once, then schedule one or two tasks a week that you will review with them until you have covered everything.

You, the employee and the company will benefit greatly from the refresher training. You’ll be surprised what you may uncover and the employee will appreciate that their supervisor took the time to assist them in polishing their skills.

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.