If people are surrounded by positive and like-minded people, it will be a motivating factor. I believe every training event arranged at workplace provide space for the employees to work on them and enhance their skills. A company has a group training programme to provide benefits to the employees. This type of training is always a great money and intelligence saver for a company than to provide training on one-to-one basis.

Here are the top 5 benefits of group employee training in the workplace.

Profitable

Training is very costly, which takes much labour. If you ask a third party train your employees, you might have to spend much money to train every employee. However, if you let an employee having a group training session, the expense will also be reduced extremely.

Group training is a hit if you want to train a large number of people with a limited budget. Meanwhile, with a limited budget, you can train limited number of employees, who can add more value to the company.

Brainstorming

A group of people equals a lot of brains to work for the action. When you train your employees in a group, they will bring more energy to the training as more people try to contribute with questions, thoughts, ideas and discussion. That means your employees will learn more, you will have more questions and ideas, and it will be more constructive. They will also listen more to each other and focus more on what somebody else is saying, rather than daydreaming or just listening to the trainer if the discussion is one on one.

Saves time

If an organisation wants to train its employees, time is one of the immune factors for a company, time is money so it is expected from every company that they won’t waste any time and their employees will meet the deadline. It is a big factor for a company. Every hour an employee will waste their time, it will cost the company some money. If they train group of employees, it is not only beneficial financially but also it will make decrease the total time to make their employees more qualified because training employees in group will make it faster and it will also make employees always present in their tasks.

Building communication in the team

So, the other benefit of group training is that the employees learn to communicate with their fellow person as well as with their trainer. While learning short courses in the groups, the employees can ask more questions to their peers, share their suggestions to trainer or simply can meet to colleagues. It serves as an excellent open forum.

Increased productivity

After the training the employee doesn’t have to be the best at his or her skill or niche but in group training it means that multiple employees will receive the same information and if one employee fails to meet the requirements the company will still have several trained employees.

Moreover, you can recap the time, money, and efforts you invested into productivity. The employee, who has been a subject for group training, can ask help from those colleagues who were attendees.

Overall, with group training the management workload can be significantly decreased.

In my opinion there are many corporations and organisation generally prefer to give employees group training rather than give training individually. Short courses in a group will increase company productivity and give a best practice of employee.