Importance Of A Purpose

Introduction:

Training is one of the initial steps in the process of personal development.

It prepares the new employees for the job and helps upgrade the current employees with the changing times.

Training is a costly process, but companies spend a hefty amount on this expense but can act as an investment as the people getting trained can prove to be a helpful asset for the company.

Key Elements:

The Elements are:

1. Particular Purpose
2. Quantifiblity
3. Attainable Purpose
4. Applicable Purpose
5. Time-bound Purpose

Particular purpose:

Particular purposes are goal-oriented purposes.

An organization makes these purposes to fulfill a specified goal/ need.

These purposes are pretty straightforward as it explains what employees need to learn and how to implement it in their work tenure.

The purpose is to provide clarity and direction. It defines the role of each individual in such a way that there is no possibility of misinformation.

It aligns with the measurable and achievable goal.

It is best suited for the optimum allocation of resources. The goal is so specific that it is easy to identify the problem and its solution.

Quantifiability:

The development of the employees is measured objectively, but it is not possible to measure every aspect of it.

Areas like knowledge and skills are easily measurable, whereas communication skills, behavioral skills, attitude, values, and judgment are not easily measured. It is required to be quantifiable to measure them subjectively.

Attainable purpose:

Companies set targets to attain goals. Goal setting can be a crucial part of an organization as an organization that is not efficient in goal setting faces severe repercussions.

When an organization is setting up its attainable goals, it needs to be as realistic as possible.

Smoothly attainable goals are generally with lesser learning and experience.

Purposes that are too big Can be frightening to the employees, which leads to impracticable results.

Organizations should look forward to breaking down these big goals into smaller tasks as easy wins always motivate the employees and Organisation to achieve these goals efficiently.

Applicable Purpose: 

The organization should ensure that the material and resources used in working within the organization should apply to the working conditions.

There are times when a material is favorable toward the organization. The organization should check the applicability of that material before including that in the organization.

Time-bound purpose:

Time-bound purposes are crucial at the initial stage.

It is a difficult task to perform with the new training material as the tenure of the program can only be a calculated guess.

Time bounding is best suited for the inclusion of certain items in the ongoing course.

It is beneficial to perform it.

Advantages of having a purpose:

• It helps to ensure that the appropriate amount of learning is available for the employees. 
• It provides the environment required. It helps to maintain the time efficiency of the organization.
• It helps to convey a clear message to the employee, which avoids hindrance in the learning process of the learners.
• It helps to design the whole process, Which is helpful to the organization with the blueprint.
• It clears the expectation of the organization as well as the employees.
• It provides the base for the evaluation of the whole process. 
• It determines the achievability of the said objective.
• It provides quantitative measures which can be helpful in the future for any revisions.

Purpose of training:

Whenever an organization hires its employees, they have a set of purposes to fulfill that they want their employees to perform. These purposes align with the goals of the organization.

Once an organization is ready with well-defined purposes, they need to communicate them to its employees.

It is helpful for the organization if they are open with the questions and queries from the training as it brings more clarity to the whole process.

There are some points that an organization needs to Remember while creating and conveying the objective.

1. The performance-based fulfillment of the purpose is the goal of an organization.
2. Misinformation should be avoided at all costs.
3. The learning process is consistent.
4. The organization needs to conduct training in an action-oriented manner.
5. The results should be clear and precise.