As more employees are hiring into remote positions and businesses continue to grow with multiple sites around the world, it’s more important than ever that all employees stay connected. Working with geographically dispersed teams doesn’t mean you have to feel isolated and alone.
With the right technology solutions, you can easily manage communications and work projects virtually. One of the most important components of the virtual connection is training and professional development. to be in close communication with one another is during staff training.
While continuous professional development is an important part of the job in every industry, arranging in-person training for all of your employees can be a tedious process. From scheduling the speaker to finding a board room, sending calendar invites, and making travel arrangements, in-person trainings are expensive in both money and time.
Some businesses will hold a separate training at each site to make it more convenient, but this does not reduce costs on any level.
Challenges like training materials differing between each site, different positioning of the Holding separate trainings results in certain groups of employees having very different experiences from another, so the overall message ends up being inconsistent.
Virtual instructor led training (VILT) is a solid solution to train geographically dispersed teams. With virtual training, professional development for dispersed teams is both more convenient, consistent and cost effective. Including in-class assessments where the trainers see immediate results provides a learning review that gives trainers an understanding of knowledge deficiencies and allows them to review certain information to ensure training goals are met.
By utilizing a virtual learning environment, businesses can bring effective training schedules to everyone in the organization regardless of where they’re located. Offering training programs that employees sign up for based on their schedules, allowing them to work with other members of the team who are often located in different geographic areas offers a diversity that many site based training programs don’t provide.
The major benefit to becoming familiar with employees at different sites around the world is the increase of social learning taking place, making each employee a more well-rounded professional who begins to understand more aspects of the business as a whole and builds a stronger team focused on the same corporate goals.
Virtual training helps ensure that all members of the learning and development team use standardized training materials, portray the same consistent message, and build skills based on the organization’s growth goals.
Many companies have already implemented a virtual training program and are experiencing the various efficiencies of virtual. The challenge that many face in providing virtual training, is the virtual software they use is designed for meetings and web conferences. This means they lack the learning environment with the necessary hands on learning tools. These systems are designed for lecture and information sharing.
Training and learning needs a virtual environment where participants can engage, own their learning experience, be involved in various project/activity work and complete certain assessments and survey components. The trainers should be able to understand the level of engagement, learning and performance of every individual and the group as a whole. Jigsaw Interactive is the only virtual solution that was built specifically for training and learning. Without learning, training has little value. Without engagement and hands on activities, learning is diminished.
