ExecBlueprint: How Your Organization Can Profit From On-Demand Learning

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Action Points HR VPs from Scripps Health, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, andWells' Dairy on:I. How Can On-Demand Learning Programs HelpYour Company?In order to remain successful, a company must continueto ensure that its employees possess the essential skillsand knowledge to meet ever-changing job requirements.On-demand learning programs can deliver trainingsconsistently across the company while allowing people How Your Organizationthe flexibility to learn according to their own pace andschedule.II. The Bottom LineEstablishing an on-demand learning program is an Can Profit From investment - and one that you'll want to monitorcarefully to ensure that profitability goals are being met.Are your employees working more efficiently as a resultof the trainings? Are they staying at the company On-Demand Learninglonger? Have your net training costs decreased? III. Must-Have Strategies for Developing Your Victor BuzacheroCompany's Learning ProgramsFirst, you need to assess what your employees need: Corporate Senior Vice President, Scripps Healthhave rules or skills recently changed in your industry?Which trainings, if any, can be offered online? Second,you should partner with firms that have expertise in Kenneth A. Finneranbuilding e-learning programs. Finally, mount the VP, Human Resources, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, Inc.programs, and monitor progress and end results. Hasjob performance improved? Thomas D. PoseyIV. The Golden Rules for Motivating EmployeesIn every company, there are people who will take Senior Vice President, Organizational Capability, Wells' Dairy, Inc.advantage of every opportunity to advance, and thereare others who tend to do only what's required. You canincrease the latter group's participation in on-demandlearning programs by offering them something tangible hange is a constant in today's business world, and any com-(as appropriate): a raffle prize, a raise, or even apromotion. pany that does not address the ever-pressing need to train itsV. Essential Take-Aways employees in new processes, technologies, and regulatoryOn-demand learning programs may seem like the magic Crequirements will lose its edge - and possibly more. The Web, how-bullet to address all of a company's training needs, butthey can pose their own challenges. How do you reach ever, has brought new ways to disseminate learning programs with-your employees who have low literacy, or who speak out having to hire instructors and host expensive classroom sessions.different languages? Perhaps most importantly, which Today, many companies are using online learning platforms to teachtrainings should never be given online? everything from compliance procedures to the principles of projectmanagement. The authors of this ExecBlueprint work for such com-panies, and describe their experiences with developing, mounting,Contents and benchmarking such trainings. While they can provide a cost-effi-About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p.2 cient and consistent content delivery system, on-demand programsVictor Buzachero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p.3 cannot solve every training need, the authors emphasize, nor are theyKenneth A. Finneran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p.7 appropriate for every employee. But, if designed to fit the needs andThomas D. Posey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p.10 education levels of their intended audience, they can enable moreIdeas to Build Upon & Action Points. . . p.12 employees to access more information, resulting in more people whoperform better, and who stay at the company longer. ?
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