The market place is now recognized with having cut throat competition and tremendous pressure to perform well. Management is expected to deliver their best results to the investors while the employees are expected to give their best to the customers.
All these place a huge requirement and responsibility with the management of training themselves as well as their employees and staff to keep them up to date with any advancements happening in the corporate or industry space. It is not only the pressure from outside, but corporate experts have themselves started recognizing the need for training and giving their best to their organization.
Learning has been moving from traditional class room learning sessions to high paced internet learning sessions wherein the speed involved is tremendous and cost to company is minimal. E-learning, as it is called, is picking up and many big companies re looking for huge changes in their organization by relying upon e-learning.
Companies looking ofr restructuring can even outsource their learning function.
The change:
During the early times, class room training was the buzz of the market. It involved a formal set up with a trainer and students. Now, this has given place to more interactive and one to one form of training in the form of online and internet training. Individuals can take up online training as per their own timing and can help improve the productivity of the organization.
The companies can also afford online and one to one virtual training as this does not require physical presence of people, no physical training centre and no other extra expenditures. This form of training is quite affordable and can be customized to meet your requirements.
Multimedia training tools:
Audio and video graphics and animations are increasingly being used to make training interesting and to ensure that people don’t end up sleeping during the training sessions. Learning experience can be enriched and varied by using these animation tools and open and written words.
Benefits:
• Robust networks allow people to take training in their comfort zone, be it their home, office or cyber cafes.
• One can take training at their own speed and convenience
• Ensures greater productivity and absorption of learning modules with the individuals
• Helps in improving retention
• Easy distribution possible
• Increased chances of running global training program
Problems Faced:
Technological development never comes without challenges. E-learning has its own sets of problems associated with it too. One has to struggle with the technical aspects and resolve them to move upwards and higher. Up gradation is a must
Finally, to conclude, e-learning can help your workers deliver better and efficient results and improve your organizational productivity at lower costs. It will help you to align the learning objective of an individual to the strategy of an organization.