Momentum is a partner in the Clarkston family of companies that provides software development and coding training for both businesses and individuals. Momentum’s immersive approaching to learning, training, and upskilling enables businesses to successfully create and sustain digital transformation within their business. We’re happy to share this blog post from Momentum highlighting the need for greater investment in corporate IT training. Visit Momentum to learn more. 

As tech­no­log­i­cal capa­bil­i­ties quick­ly advance, cor­po­rate IT train­ing is becom­ing more rel­e­vant for busi­ness­es in all indus­tries to keep up with competitors.

Aim­ing to upskill and reskill employ­ees, cor­po­rate train­ing ini­tia­tives for any func­tion­al busi­ness area help improve an organization’s work effi­cien­cy and pro­vide learn­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for employ­ees to grow their skillset and progress in their career. This increas­es employ­ee sat­is­fac­tion, and there­fore, improves reten­tion. More fre­quent­ly, many com­pa­nies are start­ing to offer cor­po­rate train­ing to employ­ees across an orga­ni­za­tion, no longer just tar­get­ing train­ing to those in lead­er­ship roles or new-hire onboard­ing, as wide-scale in-house edu­ca­tion helps progress toward the goal of busi­ness growth. Addi­tion­al­ly, it is increas­ing­ly impor­tant for a busi­ness to have employ­ees that pos­sess some lev­el of tech skills. With a rapid rise of dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tions in busi­ness­es, and trends in tech, such as hyper-automa­tion, blockchain, data democ­ra­ti­za­tion, and AI start­ing to make more of an impact on busi­ness­es, an invest­ment in cor­po­rate IT train­ing now can pay off for years to come.

Today, hav­ing a num­ber of employ­ees with tech skills in areas like soft­ware devel­op­ment or data sci­ence is nec­es­sary, not just for those oper­at­ing in roles in an organization’s IT depart­ment, but also for employ­ees in oth­er depart­ments, such as mar­ket­ing and oper­a­tions. Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty exper­tise is also a top pri­or­i­ty. Orga­ni­za­tions are lever­ag­ing data and using tech­nol­o­gy to grow their busi­ness, but this can come with risk – for exam­ple, on aver­age, IoT devices may face cyber attacks 5,200 times per month. Addi­tion­al­ly, through­out the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, demand for tech skills remained high, with increased reliance on the capa­bil­i­ties of IT depart­ments to facil­i­tate remote work options and keep data secure. As orga­ni­za­tions rec­og­nize the impor­tance of IT skills and devel­op plans to deep­en tech knowl­edge with­in their busi­ness, it may make more sense to upskill or reskill an exist­ing work­force rather than invest­ing in new tal­ent recruit­ment, espe­cial­ly for com­pa­nies oper­at­ing in indus­tries with com­plex­i­ties that can­not be as eas­i­ly learned. There­fore, cor­po­rate IT train­ing has become promi­nent among learn­ing and devel­op­ment initiatives.

In order to max­i­mize an invest­ment in cor­po­rate IT train­ing, a clear busi­ness out­come should be estab­lished to guide learn­ing and clar­i­fy exact­ly what actions need to be tak­en in order to meet the goal. By estab­lish­ing a com­pa­ny-wide approach to train­ing as progress toward the busi­ness’ growth, rather than view­ing train­ing as a one-time event in learn­ing and devel­op­ment, cor­po­rate IT train­ing can sig­nif­i­cant­ly impact a busi­ness’ capa­bil­i­ties in a mod­ern tech-dri­ven world. To com­plete a suc­cess­ful cor­po­rate IT train­ing and imple­ment a true busi­ness trans­for­ma­tion, choos­ing the right learn­ing sys­tem and iden­ti­fy­ing which per­son­nel in which depart­ments can ben­e­fit the most from cor­po­rate IT train­ing can make a huge dif­fer­ence. By invest­ing in their peo­ple, orga­ni­za­tions can max­i­mize the impact of cor­po­rate IT training.

Momen­tum pro­vides flex­i­ble and cus­tom cor­po­rate IT train­ing cur­ricu­lum that helps you achieve your busi­ness needs. Let us know what your team train­ing needs are today so we can help you set your busi­ness on a tra­jec­to­ry for future success.