The Virtual Classroom: How to Design the Environment for Success

Virtual classrooms are not just a nice to have these days but are becoming a necessity. A virtual classroom can be a great way to allow people across the country or even the world to have a consistent learning experience as if they were sitting next to each other in a traditional classroom.

However, designing an effective virtual classroom requires attention to details that are different from face-to-face classrooms.

Training Companies: Best Practices for A Successful

Virtual Classroom Environment

If this year has taught us anything, it is that we must be ready for last-minute changes; many training companies, learning institutions, and businesses had to pivot to virtual learning in a short time. Many of them, however, have decided to continue with their virtual classroom environment for their training needs.

But what are the best practices for a successful virtual classroom environment?

How to Conduct a Training Needs Assessment

What is a Training Needs Assessment (TNA)?

Today’s workplace is fast-paced and demanding. Not everybody is willing to invest time in conducting a needs assessment; however, the practice is critical for enhancing workplace performance. Many businesses make assumptions of what their training needs are and how to conduct a training needs assessment.

This can have a significant impact on the success of training efforts because actions may address a symptom but not the real problem to be solved.

A workforce TNA is a way to collect information and to analyze the depth and scope of a problem. Assessments of a problem don’t have to belong or be intensive. If the issue is the rollout or change of a system or new job, the TNA can be reasonably quick. If there is evidence of a problem but no defined solution, or previous solutions have not presented satisfactory results, a longer look at other systemic factors may be required.

Launch Your Company’s Effective Leadership Training with Blended Learning

Leadership training and development is a must-have for every company and company leader. The training usually focuses on the fundamental skills to create influential leaders.

Effective leadership training has the most significant impact on company success. Managers are role models for their team members, and they set the tone for how they will behave in the workplace.

So, is your business investing in effective Leadership Training? The blog outlines the top reasons and benefits you should consider training your leaders and the blended-learning approach methods to help you achieve the best outcome.

Components of a Training Needs Assessment

The Importance of a Training Needs Assessment and Learning Strategy

Change is necessary for organizations to succeed and grow. This requires the right technology, processes, and individuals to ensure opportunities available through change can be maximized. If you do not have time or resources to conduct a training needs assessment, you can still complete your project and release training to your employees, but without a corporate Training Needs Assessment, will the training achieve the objectives you wanted it to?

Training Needs Assessments will help you to make decisions about who needs the most impactful training, what that training should be, and how you can measure your success without spending money, time, and productivity you can’t afford.

Designing Virtual Instructor Led Training

Over the last 18 months, many companies had to quickly move their operations into the virtual world, and this change has left many companies rethinking what their return to normal will look like. 

Companies are now focusing on shifting a better part of their workforce to working from home, or in a hybrid model between the office and home.

This has boosted the popularity of designing Virtual Instructor Led Training, or vILT. This training was always a popular option, but with more dispersed employees and students, it has become a great option to deliver training to those dispersed throughout the country, or just working out of the traditional office environment. 

eLearning Company Insight: How has eLearning Evolved?

When eLearning started to be used in regular commercial businesses about 30 years ago, the only companies that could afford to create and sustain this new learning format were very large organizations. There was an argument for about 20 of those years about whether or not eLearning was as effective in training employees as face-to-face training. (Short answer, yes!)

Nevertheless, most organizations had a tough time justifying the expense of time, effort, and money that it took to create courses that inevitably had to be updated or fully changed because of changes in the organization or content.

Developing Leaders for the “New Normal”

As we enter the second stage of work transformation as a result of global disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses and leaders need to start really thinking about what they will do to develop leaders in this ‘new normal.' What had been previously seen and expected in leadership and management practices must be adjusted, re-learned, or tossed to better fit the working and living conditions we have today. New leadership needs to focus on how to lead a distributed workforce, how to appreciate and capitalize on new global opportunities, and how to lead with human capital leadership skills (empathy, emotional intelligence, and autonomy management).

How to Plan Software Training Rollouts in the Virtual World

When thinking of planning software training, you want to start with broad conceptualizing and move to practical models.

The Importance of Software User Adoption

The clients' point of view determines the ultimate value and success of a piece of software. Regardless of whether you have the fanciest innovation backing it up, if you don’t profit from it or even understand it, it is useless.

How to Identify When You Need a Custom Sales Training Program

Today, when there's a competitive business environment, applying a tool to improve your business and become better than your competitors is useful. With challenges and developments in the market, it's important to have the right knowledge of buyer behavior and have the right tools to keep up. To be one step ahead, your company should have a strong sales team. Not only does a strong sales and service training program give the company immense benefits, but it also opens doors for many opportunities.

Sales development is the key to outsell your competitors and build strong relationships for future business.