Can You Make Virtual Instructor Led Training Fun?

Many of us can say that at some point we have endured a long, drawn out training session where it seems that not much gets accomplished.

Now that most classroom training is postponed and is being converted to Virtual Instructor Led Training (ViLT), you should ensure that these sessions leave your team feeling excited, invigorated and motivated.

If you are planning to make your Virtual Instructor Led Training engaging, interactive or even fun, the answer is that you may not be able to make it ‘fun’ exactly, but you can definitely inject it with some much needed energy so that people feel involved, engaged and motivated.

Announcing the 2020 Training Industry Top Training Companies Lists: Training Outsourcing

We’re very pleased to announce that we have been selected by Training Industry as a

Training Outsourcing Watch List Company for 2020!

This is a great achievement for us, and is testament to the hard work and effort of the TrainingFolks Team.

RALEIGH, N.C.—May28, 2020— Training Industry today announced its selections for the 2020 Top Training Companies™ lists for the training outsourcing sector of the learning and development market. Training Industry, the leading research and information resource for corporate learning leaders, prepares the Training Industry Top 20 report on critical sectors of the corporate training marketplace to better inform professionals about the best and most innovative providers of training services and technologies.

Selecting a Training Company to Implement Technology and Change

As a Leader, you likely have goals to implement strategic initiatives that keep your business running or more so implement new ideas that compete in a world of innovation, growth and constant change.

It’s likely your new technology or project has a goal to increase profitability, find synergies or fix a problem you deal with. If this goal isn’t achieved, you learn from it and try something else.

The Top 7 Benefits of Virtual Instructor Led Training (ViLT)

Modern technologies make virtual training easier, cheaper, and as effective as in-classroom training. Yet distance learning is still a growing industry and as such, some of its benefits aren't as widely known as they could be.  

We're here to help make those benefits a little more clear. We're experts in distance learning and want to share the key learning advantages of the virtual classroom with our prospective clients. 

Whatever you need to teach your employees, whenever you need to do it, virtual training can be the way to go. Ready to learn more about how virtual training can help to improve your business? Then keep reading!

How Can I Improve the Value of Salesforce Training?  

You’ve decided to use Salesforce, great! But do you know how to use it? 

Helping organizations grow and thrive is what Salesforce does. Think of Salesforce as the command center for your business - a customer relationship management platform (CRM). Salesforce provides a solution to manage your sales, marketing, customer service and more, all in one place! 

Keep Your Team’s Development Going, with Virtual Instructor Led Training (ViLT) 

Many of us have had to quickly adapt to the new reality of working at home and although this can be a challenging adjustment for many, the development of your people should still be a clear priority. 

What is a Business Analyst Role?

A business analyst is responsible for utilizing tasks and techniques to analyze, engineer or re-engineer an companies processes and systems to align with its business objectives. It is a lucrative job that touches a lot of lives, helps numerous companies, and influences the economy. This rewarding career is one that touches a broad range of topics. Let’s take a glimpse of what people in this profession do.

When Would You Conduct a Training Needs Assessment?

A good training needs assessment saves resources by channeling them to a measured need as against a perceived need. 

Do you often meet managers who say their team needs training?

It helps you focus your efforts to ensure that those with the maximum need get the help they merit. It guarantees that the right resources and training are delivered to the right need using the right delivery format, to the right roles to achieve the right results you need.

How to Make Virtual Training Interactive

Picture joining a webinar, or a virtual training session where the presenter simply reads their PowerPoint slides. Its unproductive, boring and can leave you thinking - I could have read those slides myself and saved an hour! You wouldn’t enjoy this format in person, and you certainly wouldn’t virtually.

Work From Home

Working from home doesn’t mean training or development should stop.

Distance: real and perceived 

As I help people, both individual contributors and managers, acclimate to the new reality of working remotely, I am reminded of the three ways people can see distance between employees even on the same team. The current experience we are all sharing in working remotely and trying to conduct business as usual in unusual circumstances will make many pause and reflect on what it means to be ‘distant’ from our team, our organization, and our closest work allies and friends.