Cross Blogged From :
http://eduriser.com/blog/2013/08/532/
“The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean un-sailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled towards some great good.” This quote by Brian Tracy exudes the true meaning of potential in a person. However, most humans don’t realize their true potential in their life time. The challenge lies in the how of it. Learning is a never ending process that transforms you from what you are to what you can be – unleashing your true potential.
The corporate community today realizes the need for skill based training programs to tap into the vast opulence of potentials of their resources by enhancing various competencies of individuals at various levels. The magnitude of the exodus of the said potential from lying in a dormant state to a more prolific one needs focused and specialized attention. The skill based training programs available in the market offer just that. Organizations can chose from a vast range of learning objectives that these training programs aim to achieve, based on what they feel is of primary and pertinent importance to them. The onus lies on the user to use a pen to scribble, doodle or write an epic with.
Learning is evolving with the accretion in its demand. Learning methodologies vary in consonance with the nature of the learning objectives. While class room training programs or ILTs cater to specific learning objectives that require delivery of information with real-time feedback, questions and answers, manipulation and changeable delivery to suit the needs of learners in a real-time environment, eLearning focuses on all these aspects while attending to the convenience of the learners, and business simulations appease the objectives that entail a kinesthetic approach. The variety in methodology along with the advent of technology has ensured that Learning takes on new pinnacles in terms of reach and impact. Thus, in this day and age, ‘Transformation through Learning’ to realize one’s potential has become viable to people at various corporate levels, enabling organizations to optimize the productivity of their resources, in turn optimizing their own Return of Investment. The path is clear and concrete, what remains is to take the step forward.
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Developing employee skills, a critical challenge against rising
The global market is changing fast. The marketers are really getting a tough time to keep up the learning pace. It’s not like the old days anymore, while you train your employees once a quarter and sit back for evaluating progress. Now the competition is quite high in every sector. If your competitor picks up a trick faster than you, you’ll only come to realise it, after losing quite a bit of market share!
Conventional training approaches are becoming a costly affair. It is limiting the process to be in ongoing mode. Training consultation fees, logistics & technical supports make it very expensive. Above these, conventional training is time consuming and restricts the speed of roll out. Attrition among the ‘learned’ sales force adds woes to the organisation. Conventional training expenses remain more or less same in case of training the newly joined replaced sales force.
The marketers have already started to address this unique situation through Online Sales Training (http://www.as-sa.co.uk/)methods. For example: Ernst & Young condensed 2,900 hours of classroom training into 700 hours web, 200 hours distance and 500 hours classroom– a 35% cost and 52% time saving (Hall 2000).
BT delivered e-business training to 23,000 employees in 3 months at a cost of £5.9m, compared to £17.8m over 5 years for classroom training – a 67% cost saving and a 95% elapsed time saving! (Taylor 2002).
Consumer insight suggests that many people find e-learning rather dull, boring and a lonely experience. Others see it as tedious and unexciting. There is a general lack of community feeling – each learner learns on their own. While e-learning offerings may succeed in educating and informing, most fail to engage participants and don’t help them develop practical – and practised – skills. This is particularly true in the sales training arena.
Online training reduces the roll out time quite fast. It’s anywhere anytime approach provides flexibility to the trainees. SAAS training charges are on per user basis. So it reduces the complexities of attrition. It provides an opportunity of integration with the ERP, LMS or CRM platform and hence brings measurability on the effectiveness of the training.
Customised online/SAAS training, providing inclusive and compelling, well delivered skills and workshops will definitely fit the demand of this new trend!