As a small business, you may have first-class products and an excellent team of workers. But if you don’t have a top-notch sales team with a strong sales strategy, your business may struggle to survive. Developing an outstanding sales process doesn’t have to be difficult or time-consuming. Here’s how online training can seal the deal for your sales team.

Small business employees who work well with others often are tasked with the job of employee training. While they are willing to help out, they may be unsure about the best ways to connect with employees and how to teach and train workers effectively. The good news is that accidental trainers don’t need to be professional teachers. Here are eight tips for success.

Employees want continuous learning experiences, but a Microsoft Corp. study found that people generally lose concentration after eight seconds. So how can you capture employees’ attention to teach them about your mission, brand, and products? Training experts say the solution is to use microlearning online training.

Do you consider employee training important to your business success? Or, is it something that you continually put off doing?

A business expert once said, “The most successful companies don’t recruit leaders, they grow their own.” Few people are natural leaders. But, many can be taught how to be effective team leaders. Consider four reasons why you should develop employees into leaders.

Do you have a “once-and-done” attitude toward employee training?

Are you ready for the newest group of employees? Employees from Generation Z are flooding the workforce. They enjoy learning and want to grow professionally. To recruit and retain these workers, small business owners should focus on providing good communications and online training. Here are five tips to help you succeed.

Small businesses want the best, most talented employees they can hire. But, the competition for young professionals is fierce, Many Millennials want jobs that fit their life and professional goals. Most businesses think they need to offer large salaries or cash incentives to get the right employees. Research shows that cash no longer is king. The secret to finding and keeping is great workers is to offer the training and development opportunities they want. Consider three ways online training can help retain Millennials.

One-third of new employees quit their jobs after only six months, experts report. The primary reason employees give for leaving is the lack of opportunities to improve their knowledge and skills. Benjamin Franklin once said, “An Investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” So, here’s why training programs can improve employee retention.

 “It's intuitively obvious to the most casual observer,” an instructor once answered a student asking a question. He thought the answer was apparent to everyone in the room, but it wasn’t. Many businesses have this same attitude. They assume employees understand their products and services and don’t take the time to provide the training, until they experience problems, such as unhappy customers or lower sales. Here are five ways employee training can improve your sales and business growth.