A study anchored by Gallup across forty five countries in seven different industries has confirmed that corporate training provided to employees leads to several business gains. There was an increase in profits, sales, customer engagement for organizations where employees’ strengths were further developed upon. In those same places there was a decrease in employee turnover and safety accidents. Some principles need to be followed in order to boost these aspects. First of all the leadership must be approached as the top management’s skills must reflect on the entire organization. Managers must be convinced of the positive impacts of such training sessions, else they will doubt the validity leading to poor implementation. A sense of enthusiasm for such activities must be generated throughout the organization. This will also enable tracking of individual skills so that project teams can reflect diversity on people with varied skill sets. Managers’ appraisals must reflect their teams’ increased engagement and development. This positivity in the company culture will eventually reflect on its overall brand.

Source: https://hbr.org/2016/09/developing-employees-strengths-boosts-sales-profit-and-engagement