A Case for Supplemental Business Learning in the Workplace

Research shows that careers are changing faster, and becoming much shorter - and large segments of America's workforce are not adjusting as well as they should to remain relevant at work. Your organization, which already has big demands for brand new skills, increasingly has to deal with a growing deficit in relatively basic skills. This skills gap is hurting your ability to grow and remain competitive.

Those that invest in education and training programs will more easily overcome this challenge.

While some can afford to enroll their employees in expensive university courses and executive programs, others cannot. Companies need to look for an easy, afforable way to lean into this challenge - or deal with the very real consequences down the road.

Razorwest addresses this challenge through an innovative approach to business education centered on improving business expertise and accelerating on-the-job practice and business performance. Our hope is that it will also encourage continual learning, promote innovative thinking, create safe communities of practice, and encourage a new set of actions that take your organization to new levels.

Companies that join Razorwest get a Performance Improvement Solution that helps the business innovate and grow, decrease costs associated with attracting and developing talent, reignite the innovative spirit, improve internal knowledge, skills and capabilities, and works to moves the business forward.

Individual members and small business teams can also join and learn business-ready skills and accelerate on-the-job performance with our Supplemental Business Learning System that delivers a business-centered education, tools and techniques, and expert-level guidance right to the person. (also see Become a Member).

Our business curriculum centers on the functional business areas of Marketing and Sales, Customer Experience, Operations, and Recruiting and provides a learning experience focused on solving real business issues, encouraging action to solve real on-the-job problems, and promoting deliberate collaboration and community-building with others.

NOTE TO EMPLOYERS:

We can provide you with a corporate-wide solution that combines supplemental business learning with recruiting support to help you realize benefits that include:

• increases in knowledge bases inside the organizaton
• increases in employee skills and performance over time
• improvements in the retention rates of existing talent
• lower costs associated with keeping top talent
• lower recruiting costs associated with hiring new talent
• more engaged employees throughout the organization