Big Ambitions employee training
Plan Employee Training in Big Ambitions
Choose a Skill target and see what training costs, how wages change and what the higher Skill actually changes.
Quick answer
How do you want the employee to improve?
Plan the training
Step 1
Who are you training?
Step 2
Where do you want them to get?
+10 Skill
What does the Skill increase change?
Customer Service
Effective service performance
54 63
effective skill
In supported service/office contexts, employee satisfaction can scale the effective Customer Service result.
Step 3
Training method
Management capacity
40
employees
How many employees this HR Manager can manage.
Training cost
34%
lower than the base scenario
How the HR Manager changes paid-training cost.
Training result
- Upfront training
- $253.44
- Hourly wage
- $24.50 → $26.95
- Added wage
- +$2.45/h
- Added wages over horizon
- $2,450.00
- Total added cost over horizon
- $2,703.44
Based on your entered future work hours: 1000 hours
Training has two costs
Today — Training fee
Later — Higher wages
Natural growth follows a different wage path.
This horizon only affects the added wage total. It does not change the training fee.
How was this calculated?
10 × training cost factor × current-skill factor × points × method multiplier
Training time is not calculated from the current verified model.
Can this employee grow naturally?
Natural growth checklist
- Satisfaction at least 80
- Actually working relevant hours
- Not absent
Estimated Skill range
+2.4 → +4.8 Skill
Expected midpoint: +3.6. Actual growth varies because growth uses a random per-hour range.
No direct training fee
No automatic paid-training wage adjustment
Satisfaction affects natural growth eligibility here. It also scales some service role effects, which is explained above.
Training vs natural growth
This compares two ways to raise Skill. It does not compare training with hiring.
| Training method | Paid training | Natural growth |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | Faster | Gradual |
| Upfront cost | Yes | No |
| Wage adjustment | Yes | Not automatically |
| Requires worked hours | Depends on method | Yes |
| Requires satisfaction | Different | Yes |
Why can't I train this employee?
Check these conditions before assuming training is broken or unavailable.
Manual training
- 1Manual training selected?
- 2Employee still assigned to a business?
- 3Employee state eligible for training?
- 4Training action available?
If the employee is still assigned, remove the business assignment. Removing the shift is not enough.
HR Manager training
- Employee assigned to an HR Manager?
- HR Manager capacity full?
- Training target already reached?
- Relevant HR setup active?
Only conditions confirmed by current data are used in this diagnosis.
Common training questions
What do you want to decide next?
How employee training works in Big Ambitions
Paid training raises skill and wages. The immediate training fee is only one part of the decision because every paid skill increase also follows the training wage-adjustment path.
Training becomes more expensive at higher current skill. Each skill has its own training-cost multiplier, while an HR Manager can reduce the final price multiplier.
Natural growth follows different rules. Employees need at least 80 satisfaction, relevant worked hours and no absence. Growth is gradual and does not automatically raise wages.
Different roles use skill differently. Customer-facing roles can be satisfaction-scaled, Factory Workers use raw output scaling, guards add protection and managers often have thresholds. There is no universal reason to train every employee to 100.