Winning Workplaces

Winning Workplaces often talks about how crucial training and development are within a framework of team building and employee engagement practices. If you search for "training" on our website, for instance, you'll find 95 related articles.

But that's our take – what are successful small businesses actually doing when it comes to employee learning and development programs? The table below shows nine of them in use in varying degrees at our recently named 2009 Top Small Workplaces:

We've broken them down by percentage among management as well as salaried, hourly, and part-time employees. The salmon-colored cells show which of these employee types get the greatest share of time devoted to a particular strategy.

You can see that salaried workers at all of the 15 winning companies benefit from on-site workshops and training. At the other end of the spectrum, 40% of firms provide career counseling and leadership development training to their part-timers (that's still pretty good, IMO).

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