If you are an employer then you need to ensure that your staff are competent, efficient, up to date with current practice and productive and all this just to maintain pace with the competition?
But how do we know if staffing is excessive, if you are top heavy or worse everyone isn’t pulling in the same direction?
We should all be constantly looking for efficiency in working practice and we do this through regular training? We should not leave the training to other companies and a well trained workforce is not only efficient but grateful and duty bound to be more concerned within the company. After all if you look after your employees then logic dictates they will look after for you.
Isn’t this the reason why so many of the worlds best companies goals are to get to the top and stay there. There is good reason for careful and detailed planning and this is to ensure quality, flexibility, longevity and productivity are the main consideration. Generally this will involve the use of the most up to date and cutting edge technology and machinery.
Commitment works both ways. Train your people well and your people will respond. Ever wondered why everyone wants to play and work and be in the big boys playground?
To quote a spokesman for the UK’s Learndirect, “The most effective and cheapest training course on the market is also the most neglected.”
Did you know that from 1000 free typing tests taken on our KAZ website, 69.7% of the ‘typists’ type at at less than 35wpm?… that is almost 7 out of 10 people unable to type efficiently. (Check out our test – it’s free, will only cost you 90 seconds of your life and you will then be able to accurately predict how much extra productivity can be gained by learning this simple skill.)
Typing is a skill – just like driving. We are taught to drive. We have lessons, followed by a test to confirm proficiency. Every laptop, desktop, Chromebook is sold with an attached keyboard. How are we expected to be proficient with a keyboard, where many of us spend several hours per day, when we are not taught?
If the average working day is 8 hours, it is relatively easy to work out the hours /days /months of our lives we can potentially save by learning this skill.
Let’s assume your staff need to spend 6 hours per day in front of their PC, typing at a speed of 25wpm on emails, work, essays etc.,
If you fall into the above 69.7% category (assuming you’re typing non-stop): 25wpm x 60mins x 6hours = 9000 words in 6 hours
If you fall into the latter, 30% typist category, you should be able to type at 50 wpm (the majority of users leave KAZ at this point): 50wpm x 60mins x 6 hours = 18000 words in 6 hours or the equivalent of 9000 words in 3 hours = a saving of 3 hours per day.
Double the word count in exactly the same time.
(Out of interest, from the typing tests taken, the remaining 30% typed far in excess of 50wpm!)
Now what if I told you the average speed test of those 69.7% tests taken, was just 18!
Imagine how much of time you can potentially save each day. What would you do with that extra staff time?
So continuing …
3 hours per day x 5 days/week x 48 weeks/year =
720 hours/year or
90 days/year
(based on working 8 hours /day)
Now that’s a lot of productivity saved/gained – should be an easy decision to start checking your employees typing skills.