Launching corporate training from scratch may seem like an over-the-top challenge at first. In reality, it isn’t always that hard; well, at least it doesn’t have to be hard to be successful. In this starter pack, we’ve collected the most relevant reads on employee training so you can easily understand the current state of affairs and be well on your way to launching your employee training project.
An employee training program is an official learning activity initiated by a company. By launching it, you start to deliberately manage learning in the company and align with your business goals. These goals could be:
All of these and much more can be reached through effective employee training.
We’d love to shout ‘YES!! Training your employees is the best thing you can do for your team!’ But is creating a training program always the key? Well, not necessarily. Sometimes, those goals above can be reached with alternative (and, maybe, less expensive) ways. So, before you make any serious investments in training, it’s a good idea to start from a training needs assessment.
The choice of a certain approach to training delivery will affect the further development of the project as well as the resources and budget size needed.
There are various ways to organize learning: run classroom sessions, launch a web-based learning hub, or create an email campaign, etc. Knowing what options are there in the list will help you avoid a costly mistake at the start.
The blog posts below will answer three key questions for any decision-maker:
Although we wouldn’t like to match brick-and-mortar training against online learning, the chances are you’ll have to tackle technology one way or another. Adopting the right tech stack can definitely help you get more employees trained better, easier, and efficiently.
While each company is unique, the use-cases for employee training are often the same. Let’s have a closer look at the most popular business scenarios to see what is actually possible and how other companies close their gaps through proper training.
Effective learning (we doubt that you’d want to invest in ineffective one) isn’t a one-and-done exercise. You’ve created a great training program, what’s next?
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