Your power sweeping business needs equipment in good working order. It needs functional, efficient technology to manage schedules, assignments, and clients. It needs human capital to operate that equipment and complete those scheduled assignments and tasks. The weakest or the strongest link in this chain of business needs is the people you employ.
Your people are the lifeblood of your business. You and your clients depend upon them to do their jobs and do those jobs well. This requires an exchange all parties find valuable and that exchange involves more than mere money. Consistently falling in the top three employee incentives to stay with their current employers is professional development.
Professional Development for Sweeper Operators and Managers
Professional development signals an employer’s trust and value in the people who work for the company. As often credited to Sir Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin Group, “Train your people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” This means letting go of fears that your investment in the professional development of your employees will reap benefits for someone else. Your employees want to do good work and your investment in them will be both appreciated and repaid with loyalty and improved performance.
Because power sweeping is such a niche business, it requires specific training to produce excellence. This is where you can rely on NAPSA. Sweeper School combines both the theoretical and practical knowledge of industry experts into online courses that lead to prized certification in the power sweeping sector.
"Sweeper School combines both the theoretical and practical knowledge of industry experts into online courses that lead to prized certification in the power sweeping sector."
Sweeper School aligns programs into specific tracks designed to fit the needs of your business. There’s a track for sweeper operators that leads to certification as a Certified Sweeper Operator. Managers are best served by the Certified Sweeping Manager track. And administrative personnel can take advantage of information and skills pertinent to their duties through the Fleet Basics program. Each track provides both training on general topics common to everyone in the industry as well as topics specific to their on-the-job responsibilities.
Here’s a bonus: the Certified Sweeper Operator track further specifies into the type of work your operators tackle. The CSO certification courses specialize in either parking lots or construction sites, as both venues entail different requirements for and pose different hazards to those operating power sweeping equipment.
The Standard in Power Sweeping
The benefits to your company extend beyond a well-trained workforce. By having your employees certified, you uphold the Power Sweeping Standard - 2018PPS1000. Compliance with the ANSI Power Sweeping Standard means your company follows an objective set of rigorous best practices. This compliance helps contractors defend against frivolous litigation and may result in reduced insurance premiums. Loyal, well-trained employees are also much more likely to stay with the companies that invest in them, which saves their employers money on recruitment and training new hires. The Society for Human Resources Management reports that “on average it costs a company 6 to 9 months of an employee’s salary to replace him or her. For an employee making $60,000 per year, that comes out to $30,000 - $45,000 in recruiting and training costs.” For an employee who earns $36,000 annually, the cost to replace that employee is $12,000. That cost doesn’t include the expense of training the new employee.
Spending money on employee development saves money on employee churn, which gives you the return on investment you need to justify the expense of training your people.
Trained, knowledgeable personnel who meet objective, rigorous requirements for professionalism become the strongest aspect of your company. This means that knowledge isn’t only power, it’s just good business.