The Challenge of Managing Training for the Hybrid Work Environment
As offices re-open and companies are requiring employees to spend at least a few days per week back in their former workspaces, managing training for this hybrid work environment will be a challenge. Even with virtual or eLearning in place, the hybrid work environment presents several obstacles to training delivery: For classroom-based learning, some learners […]
Is This Truly the End of Classroom-Based Training?
Though the sound of the drumbeat of its demise has been growing louder and louder, classroom-based training is not quite dead yet. According to Training magazine’s 2020 Training Industry Report—published in November 2020, while the pandemic was still underway—the majority (54 percent) of respondents indicated that they plan to return to some classroom training post-pandemic […]
The Pros and Cons of Off the Shelf Learning
Sometimes you just can’t do it all. So when internal course design isn’t the answer to training requests, how else can the training team help out? The answer of course is to offer ready-made, off the shelf learning developed by third-party education providers. These courses are generally available as a service: the learner simply logs in […]
Ask the Experts: How to Improve Virtual Training For Learners and Instructors
More than six months into the pandemic, most of us have become accustomed to virtual training, meetings, and interactions with our managers, coworkers, and clients. Though we do more of them, do we ever actually get better at them? Virtual training, of course, has now become the norm for most organizations. While virtual training is […]
Moving Training Online: 6 Tips for a Speedy Transition
In times of uncertainty, businesses must quickly adapt to meet new needs and challenges that are surfaced. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has caused temporary upheaval in how we work, and how we learn, in today’s workplace. Studies show that by 2017, as many as 77% of companies were using eLearning. But many of those […]
Don’t Write off Instructor-Led Training Just Yet
With thousands of courses and learning opportunities, we still need competent teachers. With the explosion of online courses, tutorials, and other self-directed learning materials, the L&D leader may think that instructor-led training (ILT) is all but dead. But don’t count on that just yet. According to The Future of Corporate Learning: Ten Disruptive Trends, a […]
Online Universities Get a C+, But You Don’t Have To
How You Can Thrive When Dealing with an Uncertain Market The news last month that the parent company of the University of Phoenix (UoP) was sold for $1.1 billion to buyout fund Apollo Global Management is no surprise: online universities have not provided the bottom-line results they’ve promised individuals and organizations. According to the editors […]
