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Competitive pressures

Short-termism is regrettably endemic in business today. Training is wrongly viewed as a business overhead and not as a 'wealth creator' – the sustainable way to improve business performance.

New recruits who are given an appreciation of attitudinal and behavioural good practice in the workplace will settle into employment sooner and achieve a good level of performance more quickly. They will be less likely to leave: experts say there are at least 50 sources of potential cost associated with leavers (Phillips, Fair, Cascio and Joinson).

Similarly, new managers need an appreciation of the potential minefield of employment legislation and how they can personally minimise any adverse impact in their team.

Traditionally, where the enterprise does carry out formal induction of new employees and new managers, training is in classroom settings. Because this is relatively costly, it tends to be minimised. The FIT programme brings a new approach and enables business-specific induction to be carried out in a highly cost-effective way.