Nowadays, the offices are spreading across the countries to expand their skills outside the company or placing their employees in cost-effective locations.
As the organizations are extending their roots geographically, instructors have to travel each to the office to train or the employees are brought to the central place for their training.
Additionally, the cost of traveling will proliferate as well as the amount of time spent would also increase to get all employees trained on a procedure or new policy.
For instance, let’s say an employer has seven offices across the globe and all its peers need to complete the training. Based on the estimation of the cost and time for training, one week would be required to train in each location. Assuming that both the instructors are available, it will take three weeks to roll the training sessions in all offices.
However, with the advent of technology, there are different ways to mitigate the training without any hassle of time and distance. Employers can use web-based training or webinars where trainers can reach the global employees of the company.
This will eliminate the associated costs for training employees in a different location and also the need for travel. As a result, it will reduce the time and new training can be rolled out with remaining time.
Below is the list of the most popular ways to mitigate the issue of training the distributed workforce:
Web-based Video Conference:
The best suitable example for a web-based video conference would be Skype, as it allows businesses to conduct a video conference across the globe with more than one person.
These services are of good quality which allows employees to share the screen so they can present the Powerpoint slides or presentations directly from their computer.
Webinars:
With these web-conference programs, companies can impart more robust infrastructure within the web application.
It facilitates chat windows, whiteboards, & phone numbers for a user who is more effective in interacting from the phone than the computer.
Additionally, it uses live interaction with the users so that businesses can address their queries.
The webinar provider decides the costs in terms of the number of attendees to calculate the monthly revenue.
For instance, if one webinar has fees up to $150 per month for 500 people, the individual cost would be $3 per person. This fee is very less compared to the travel cost.
E-learning:
In web-based training, the learners can individually log on and take a course that is best suited for them. This type of training is called online training or e-learning training.
This e-learning training is usually created with e-learning interactive tools and technology. Which allows users to complete the training modules individually.
These e-learning training modules are usually stored on an LMS (Learning management system) like Learnupon. Usually, LMS is mainly used by organizations to structure their training programs and deliver employee-centric programs.
Elearning Training Programs: Future Potential Technologies
Finally, technology is proliferating in the area of VR(Virtual Reality) and AR(Augmented Reality). These technologies pertain to the most exciting opportunities for companies to advance their competencies.
From microlearning to VR simulations, technology has great prospects in the future which will be ubiquitous to reach and interact with learners around the globe.
Although, like present opportunities, eLearning training systems have come a long way in creating engaging, impacting, and interesting training modules for a distributed workforce.
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