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There was a time when people used to go to work just to work. However, now the importance for personal growth is important to employees and help retention.

Here are three key reasons that you shouldn’t hesitate to show your employees just how much you value them and demonstrate why investing in their personal growth is the best investment you could make in your business.

You can break the cycle
Investing your resources in your employees’ personal development can stop down you recruiting to replace an employee not to mention the time training them up. When someone leaves they take a lot of knowledge with them.

Be innovative
You want your employees passionate about what they do, so fuel that passion and utilise it to do great things for your business. Provide your employees with opportunities to expand their business knowledge and allow them to become more effective and efficient in their roles. Again, this doesn’t have to be monetary. Organise networking opportunities with other likeminded professionals to allow them to discuss current trends in their field and they could bring back ground breaking ideas and processes for you to implement.

Empower your employees
If you are confident in your employee’s ability, then you should allow them to feel empowered enough to make decisions without seeking your approval. This empowerment in itself encourages personal development as it inspires your staff to take on new responsibilities and to face being held accountable for their actions. As a result, an empowered employee will speed up your business processes because there are no bottlenecks caused by waiting for approval from higher channels. This means things are actioned quicker, providing your employees with valuable time to spend on their personal development. That’s a much better cycle for your business to be working in!

In summary any investments that you make into your employees’ personal development will always come back into the business for the better.

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