The colon in that sentence introduces the ways in which you should invest in your employees. You invest in your employees: you spend a lot of time and energy training them, and you want to keep them at peak performance level and increase productivity. can be rewritten as: You invest in your employees by spending a lot of time and energy training them, keeping them at peak performance level, and increasing productivity.
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