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If you’re looking to bring some cheer to the winter holidays, here are our 6 tips for navigating COVID-19 and office holidays, safely. This post was first published on eLearning Industry. 6 Tips For Navigating COVID-19 And Office Holiday Season published first on https://premiumedu.weebly.com/ via Tumblr 6 Tips For Navigating COVID-19 And Office Holiday Season We have reached a point where we can talk openly about mental health in the workplace and thankfully, our tech has evolved enough to make it easier. This post was first published on eLearning Industry. Utilizing Animation For Effective Mental Health Training In The Workplace published first on https://premiumedu.weebly.com/ via Tumblr Utilizing Animation For Effective Mental Health Training In The Workplace Fairfax University of America This post was first published on eLearning Industry. Instructional Designer published first on https://premiumedu.weebly.com/ via Tumblr Instructional Designer Overhauling your leadership development program? Here are some ideas for enhancing your leadership training. This post was first published on eLearning Industry. How To Boost Your Leadership Development Program With Online Training published first on https://premiumedu.weebly.com/ via Tumblr How To Boost Your Leadership Development Program With Online Training ![]() Nobody knows the needs of your business better than you, that’s true. Not many people out there can tell you exactly where the knowledge gaps are in your team and how these affect performance. You also know your KPIs better than anyone else. Then what’s the point of using ready-made online training courses for employees? Making courses from scratch takes a lot of time, money, and effort. And more often than you’d have thought, the content you want to create already exists — in the content library of your LMS. When you need to train your staff fast, effectively, and without breaking your budget, ready-made online training courses can be your best resource. Why ready-made courses are a good solution for training employeesThere are many benefits to using ready-made online courses for employee training, either as a standalone training program or to complement your current one. Let’s explore five of the most important reasons why you should consider training employees with off-the-self online courses: 1. Reduce training costsLet’s start with the most important reason to use ready-made online training courses first: the cost. Building your own courses from scratch requires various resources in time and money.
This whole process is not necessarily difficult. But it will take both time and money. And sometimes, the sheer investment of hours and $$ you’ll have to put in creating your own online training courses may be enough to discourage you. Using ready-made online training courses, however, is a whole other game. Purchasing ready-made courses is more affordable and much less labor-intensive. You save a ton of time creating and uploading the content: everything is already there, ready to go. Which means you can start your training sooner and start hitting those KPIs. That’s money saved already. 2. Bring more expertise to your trainingWhen creating online training courses for employees, you want to make sure that the level of knowledge the courses will provide are top-notch. Anything else is just not worth your time and investment. Yet a good Subject Matter Expert can be hard to find. Let alone finding several of them so that you can create your online training courses. Sure, there will be enough knowledge and expertise within your team to populate some content verticals. People from your team can create courses based on their specific niche. But there will likely be some gaps, or a fluctuation in quality, especially if content creation is not their primary job. Besides, sometimes you’ll want to offer training courses on new topics or add some fresh content. This is where ready-made courses can help: a good LMS content library by default contains a vast array of subjects, all written and reviewed by experts. It’s like having a whole university’s worth of lecturers, instead of having to rely on one or two content-specific instructors (no matter how good they may be). Doesn’t that set your mind at ease? 3. Help employees retain informationOne of the things that’s become very clear lately, especially during this remote working Renaissance we’ve been experiencing, is that people can be overwhelmed by too much information. Co-founder and CEO of Cultivate Joseph Freed, explains in this Forbes article how important it is to be aware of employees’ cognitive load. Especially as digital communication keeps increasing, employees can suffer from burnout more frequently and find it difficult to retain information. Online training courses for employees need to be short in order to be effective. And that may be tough to manage when you’re creating your content by yourself. For example, if you already have some lengthy PDFs and manuals, how could you break them down into brief training courses? If you opt for ready-made courses, though, you’ll know their length beforehand and pick the ones that fit your employees’ learning needs. Each course in TalentLibrary
4. Focus on soft skillsDeveloping hard skills is necessary when training employees. But hard skills can be limited in scope. Did you know, for instance, that 85% of the jobs that will exist in 2030 haven’t been invented yet? This Gallup article paints a clear picture of the importance of behavioral skills, or soft skills when it comes to staff training. Skills like creative thinking, positivity, and adaptability are closely tied to high performance and crucial to foster in a fast-changing market. But they’re often overlooked. Because you can easily build training content around your product — and it makes sense to build that content in-house — but creating a course on communication skills or resilience is more time-consuming. Luckily, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Or, waste time to build something from scratch when there’s already relevant content out there. You can easily deliver soft skills training through ready-made online training courses and equip your teams to remain strong in the future. No matter what 2030 throws at you. 5. Stay on top of industry trends and needsSpeaking of the fast-changing market: how will you know what your online training courses for employees should look like tomorrow? Or the next month? Or the next year? According to this Training Industry article, it’s wise to have a data-driven approach to updating training content. You should take the time to look at all the courses in your catalog and compare the performance metrics for each: the number of completions/drop out rate, how they’ve pushed your KPI’s forward etc. And once in a year, or even once every six months, you should reshuffle your content to make sure your training is still relevant. Plus, depending on your industry, there may also be compliance training topics you’ll need to update, to make sure your team is on top of the latest regulations. But doing all that, although wise and necessary… is also a lot of work. If, instead, you use ready-made online training courses for employees, then you’ll have the advantage of an LMS content library that keeps updating automatically. In TalentLibrary
ConclusionGoing the route of ready-made online training courses can save you a lot of time, money, and the headache of figuring out best practices. You can rest assured that your team has access to top-notch content from a vast array of SMEs and that this content is delivered in an optimal way. That way, you can focus on the things that really matter. Not sure where to start? For a growing collection of ready-made courses that cover the soft skills your teams need for success at work, check out TalentLibrary
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Right now, those services are in high demand. This year’s pandemic and other tragedies — like the fires in California or the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico — have drastically increased the number of people who need help. People have lost their jobs, hospitals are in need of supplies, and communities need increased disaster support. Nonprofits are needed more than ever in 2020, but unfortunately, the pandemic and shutdown have affected nonprofits and charities as well. How has 2020 affected nonprofitsAccording to a report from the Independent Sector, nonprofits saw a significant drop in funding this year; 83% of organizations experienced a reduction in revenue and contributions — cancelled events and closed operations contributed heavily to the loss, but so did individual giving, which dropped by about half. This year has been complicated for nonprofits; individuals tend to give generously in times of crisis, but personal giving falls off during a recession, according to Amir Pasic, the Eugene R. Tempel Dean at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. Pasic, interviewed by the Stanford Social Innovation Review earlier this year, pointed out that after the recession in 2009, it took many years for individual giving to recover. This year, which has featured several crises and a recession, has been more complex. The reduction in funds means a reduction in staff, operations, and the ability to raise the funds they need to continue their missions. Nonprofit staffing is down by 7.6% since March, according to one report, and according to the Independent Sector data, nonprofits have collectively reported the loss of 47% of their staff. According to the report, 71% of nonprofits reduced their services or operations, 55% have closed their offices, and 30% reduced employee pay and benefits. How nonprofits are helping, in spite of the challengesDespite the hardships, nonprofits have stepped up this year. They helped establish Covid-19 response funds to stock food banks during the shutdown. They packaged food to deliver to areas hard hit by the pandemic. They supported social justice protesters and created wildfire relief funds. Most recently, nonprofits were a driving force in getting out people to vote, according to the Nonprofit Leadership Center. They did all of that while private donations were on the decline. This important work was possible because private giving foundations stepped in to fill the funding void left by the decline in personal donations. According to a report released in October (PDF), a large percentage of giving foundations changed their missions in 2020 to be more focused on the Covid-19 crisis. Mary Jovanovich, senior manager for Relationship Management at Schwab Charitable, told the Stanford Social Innovation Review that she saw a 50% increase in grants recommended by donors in the early months of the pandemic, many of which were earmarked for Covid relief. Those grants resulted in more than $138 million donated to more than 7,000 charities, specifically supporting Covid-19 relief and recovery efforts between February and March. Not all nonprofits are doing well, however. Nonprofits with missions not directed related to the pandemic or this year’s other crises — arts nonprofits, for example — have been suffering. The arts and entertainment sector of the nonprofit industry has lost 35% of its workforce since March while education nonprofits have lost 13% percent of their workers. Those workers that are still employed are learning to work in different ways. Many nonprofit workers have been working from home since the start of the pandemic — which can be grueling for staffers who aren’t used to remote work. Nonprofits Overcoming Pandemic Stresses by Leveraging TrainingMany nonprofits have found themselves inundated with volunteers. With millions of people out of work and looking for things to do and ways to help, many are turning to volunteer work. This is great, but creates a challenge when fewer staff members are tasked with managing large numbers of volunteers. How do you engage and train volunteers safely when everyone is remote? Fortunately there is a template for training and working with large numbers of volunteers. Take Girl Scouts San Diego, an organization with a small paid staff that’s used to working with thousands of volunteers. Last year, the organization used remote learning to double the amount of volunteers who took training. With 14,000 volunteers, it was impossible to get everyone in the same place at the same time, even pre-pandemic, but online training brought training to the volunteers, and helped GSSD disseminate important information — from a distance. GSSD isn’t the only non-profit to use remote training to help organize and inform volunteers. Learn more about how other nonprofits use online learning to engage their volunteers remotely by reading the latest SAP Litmos paper on nonprofits and how they meet their volunteer challenges. The post eLearning to the Rescue: Nonprofits Overcome Pandemic Stresses by Leveraging the LMS appeared first on SAP Litmos. eLearning to the Rescue: Nonprofits Overcome Pandemic Stresses by Leveraging the LMS published first on https://premiumedu.weebly.com/ via Tumblr eLearning to the Rescue: Nonprofits Overcome Pandemic Stresses by Leveraging the LMS Every cent must be accounted for when implementing hour keeping apps for your remote workforce. Here’s how to create an accurate time tracking tool budget. This post was first published on eLearning Industry. How To Create An Accurate Employee Time Tracking Tool Budget published first on https://premiumedu.weebly.com/ via Tumblr How To Create An Accurate Employee Time Tracking Tool Budget You can help your employees improve their writing skills by training them, motivating them, and leading by example. Here are some true and tested benefits from training your employees to write professionally. This post was first published on eLearning Industry. 5 Benefits From Training Your Employees To Write Professionally published first on https://premiumedu.weebly.com/ via Tumblr 5 Benefits From Training Your Employees To Write Professionally |
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