Tuesday, 10 April 2012

How Organizations Are Addressing the Changing Face of Corporate Training?

Organizations, big and small, arrange training sessions for their employees to provide added value to their existing range of skills with the purpose of increasing retention and support. Training programs include educating the workers about new products, human resource and sales training, and much more.

Organizations need to hold such corporate training programs for various departments often simultaneously on a single day. It becomes extremely difficult to arrange such programs at short notices. In today's digital age, trainers are taking the help of software's to organize corporate training sessions with ease and within the deadline set by their superiors.

Online corporate training management software's are available in different forms in the global market. However, almost all of them include some basic features and tools to let a trainer create and manage his/her programs, easily and quickly. Let's look at some of the significant features and tools that these online corporate training management software's provide.

Online Registration

Manually creating registration forms lead to wastage of both time and money. The integrated online registration solution allows the trainers to easily set up registration forms in minutes without downloading or installing any costly equipment. For example, using a Cloud-based registration solution will save on expenditures incurred on purchasing paper and envelopes for hardcopy registration forms. Prospective candidates interested to attend the program can at anytime and from any place across the globe log onto the website, register by filling up a form and instantly submit the same with just a click of a mouse.

Different Payment Options

A common trait of hardcopy registrations were payments to trainers being made in the form of cash and paper Checks. With the emergence of online payment solutions, organizations offer their registrants the ease of paying using credit cards, PayPal, wire transfers, and such other common payment gateways.

Expand Reach

Organizing training sessions in a particular location can often lead to poor attendance level. This is because of the inability of most people to be at the venue on time. Online training programs can be easily attended by people residing at different places for the same cost and time as someone attending from your office. In this way, you can make your training programs global and significantly increase attendance to a great extent.

Increased Collaboration and Interaction with the Attendees

Corporate training management software tools allow greater collaboration and interaction in terms of live chats, real-time discussions, instant polls, and desktop sharing. According to many, interactions between the trainer and the attendees have actually increased when an event is organized online.

Employ Trainers and Subject Matter Experts (SME's) in Any Location

The virtual environment offers your organization's subject matter experts to easily communicate with your potential clients. For example, SME's can arrange online educational programs anytime for the clients (at their convenience) to get accustomed with a product's features and technicalities.

Jonathan is a professional trainer. He employs latest technology for online class registration and online training registration that results in more attendance and ROI.

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