Should You Offer Continuing Education to Your Employees?

Should You Offer Continuing Education to Your Employees 

Continued Education

Maybe an employee dropped it off anonymously in the company suggestion box a few weeks ago. Maybe one of the new bright-eyed 

employees stopped you one morning while you were on your way to get coffee. Or maybe Janeen from Accounting asked about it. 

For whatever reason, you have continuing education for your employees on the brain. And you cannot stop thinking about it.

On one hand, you think it is a great idea. It can boost the company’s internal intelligence level while increasing company 

morale and encouraging employees to stick around. On the other hand, you think it is expensive and will cut in to productivity during the workday.

Baloney! Offering continuing education to your employees is the best choice you could make for you, your company, you 

employees and your customers. Just think about it: you could offer a customer service training to all of your staff who 

have direct contact with customers. The staff learns important lessons and techniques for amazing customer service and in 

turn, your clients are happy. That means they will be more likely to do repeat business with you and your company makes more

money. 

Then, you look better in the eyes of YOUR boss. And who does not want that?

Or, all of your IT staff goes through a continuing education course on the importance of the new software the company is 

using. The IT staff learns the ropes of the software and even learns a few little tricks to keep the software running 

effectively and smoothly. In turn, your products go out on time and customers are happy. Again, that means they will be 

more likely to do repeat business with you and your company makes more money.

And again, you look better in the eyes of YOUR boss. So tell me again why you think continuing education is a bad thing?

Also, it boosts company morale because it shows your employees that you care about their minds and want to help make them 

in to better employees. So actually, the return goes both ways. You have a more educated staff and they have the greater 

self-confidence and intelligence needed to create a dynamic work environment.

You could also look in to creating a program where employees can choose to take a class of their own choosing each year. 

That way they will be more loyal to your company because they feel like you have a vested interested in them and their 

well-being. And they are happier.

So, get your coffee, go back to your desk and create a winning plan for continuing education at your company. You will look 

good, your employees will feel good, your customers will be happy and your boss will be impressed. You company will 

flourish and sales will continue to increase by the thousands (or maybe even millions!) Everyone is happy and you get the 

new corner office. You are now officially the company idealist, sales savior, favorite employee and the boss of the year!