5 Ways To Create Winning Corporate eLearning Courses Using Training Management Platform

5 Ways To Create Winning Corporate eLearning Courses Using Training Management Platform
Summary: Thinking of offering internal eLearning training to your staff? We show you how to make full use of your training management platform to produce the best corporate training possible.

How Training Management Platforms Help You Develop Successful Corporate eLearning Courses

As a training company, you’re obviously going to use your training management system to help you create and manage training for your customers, but you can also use it to help manage your internal training as well.

Corporate training is vital for any business. You want to make sure that your staff are up to speed on everything they need to be in order to do their jobs effectively.

Let’s take a look at some of the ways you can use your training management platform. These ways can help you create the best corporate eLearning courses possible.

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1. Get It scheduled

The first stage of setting up your eLearning courses is to schedule them as you would schedule your commercial classes – using your training management platform.

This is a good idea for a number of reasons:

  • It allows you to clearly show your staff exactly what training you have on offer, what it will cover, and how long they are expected to spend on it. They can then sign up for the classes they need to and know exactly the level of commitment they have to show.
  • It’s easy for you to keep track of all the training courses you offer, and make sure you’re running all the training sessions that you need to.
  • If you need to book things like classroom sessions, resources, or venues for assessments, you can do this in exactly the same way as you usually do for the classes you sell. That means everything is easy to keep track of, and you are always completely prepared for all the corporate learning that you offer.
  • You can easily track whether all your staff are signed up to the correct classes.
  • Contacting the correct staff, and sending them things like assessment results will be much easier if it’s all done through your training management platform, as you can make use of automated communications.

2. Plan It Out

The next step is to create a plan for all your staff to stick to. If you’re using a training management platform with a learning tracks feature, this is a great way to create personalised training plans for everyone in your business.

Firstly, think about all the general courses that you want the whole business to complete. This could be things like fire safety training. All your employees, regardless of department, will have to take part in.

Next, think about the department specific training that all the departments will have to do. This could be extra sales training for the sales team. It could also be additional health and safety training for teams who have to work with something like ladders or specific vehicles.

Finally, think about role specific training that you want your employees to work through. This could be management courses for your management team, or training on how to deal with customers for all your customer-facing staff, regardless of what department they work in.

The moment you have all the training mapped out, you can create a personalised plan for everyone in your business, as everyone will be taking part in different training sessions. You can also set the order you want people to complete the training in so that they learn things in the correct order and get the most from their training.

Once all the training plans are created, it’s really simple for your staff members to simply work through the plan in the correct order, and keep track of their progress, so both they and you know exactly what training they have completed, and when they did it.

3. Track And Report

Running your corporate training through your training management platform will also give you the ability to properly track it and report on it. As we mentioned above, if you get all your staff signed up to the relevant courses, then you will easily be able to see who attended which classes and when. This will provide your business with a training record for your entire staff without you having to complete any additional work.

You also have the ability to use your training management platform’s training reporting system to report on any of the details about these classes, such as how many people attended which classes, and how much time they spent completing the training within your LMS, so you can see how many business hours were spent on training in a given time period.

A training management platform can offer you the chance to get feedback from your students. This is a good way for you to see how they felt the training was run and what they liked and disliked about the courses. You are also able to later store all the feedback, and use it for future reference when you are scheduling your corporate training. As a result, you can hopefully make positive changes to your training offering.

4. Keep It Updated

Running corporate training yourself gives you a great opportunity to not only create the content yourself, but also make sure it is always as up-to-date as it can be, so the training you provide is always as relevant as possible. This ensures that your staff isn't wasting time on sections of training that aren’t needed anymore or have become outdated.

Choose a training management platform that has an integrated Learning Management System, so you have complete control over the content being presented to your staff. This may be a bit time-consuming and costly to begin with, but once it’s all set up, it will be really easy to simply add or change things in the content as needed. It also means that you can ensure that your training is completely personalised to your business and your team, therefore providing the exact training your business needs.

5. Make It Flexible

eLearning is obviously a great choice for corporate learning, as your staff are able to work through the sessions at their own pace. But in order to make sure you get the best from your team, you may want to offer a blended learning approach where it’s appropriate.

Not all your staff will learn in the same way, so perhaps offering a mix of eLearning and classroom sessions where appropriate could really help your staff get a better grasp the material.

A classroom session may work better for some aspects anyway, such as practical session in first aid training. Offering blended training should hopefully mean everyone finds something that will suit them, and again you can easily schedule all your training, no matter how it is presented, through your training management platform.

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