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Competency
Management Q &
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In this regular column, readers contact
Avilar's Director of Workforce Development
Solutions for ideas and suggestions about
competency and learning solutions. Have a question
you'd like to see answered next month?
Contact Chris
Dear
Chris,
We are about to begin
developing a new individual development planning
process and realize that a critical component will
be providing training for employees and
managers.
What best practices
can you share with us?
Sincerely,
Planning Ahead
Dear Planning
Ahead,
You're really smart to
start thinking about training early in the
game. Getting your employees and managers
bought in and engaged is critical to the success
of any talent management program. Here are
some of the best practices we've
seen.
1.
Keep the process
simple. Design the whole development
planning process around trainability - and
usability. Avoid the temptation to add
multiple steps and complicated approval
mechanisms. There are many different
learning styles and training needs in every
organization, so make sure the system you use is
flexible enough to accommodate all of them without
adding a huge administrative burden. Many
years ago, I personally had the experience of
trying to get employees engaged in a 12-step
development planning process. It was as
agonizing for me as it was for the
participants!
2. Focus on the
WIIFM. We've seen a real similarity
to sales and marketing campaigns in the best
training programs. They're designed to
answer the question: "What's in it for me?"
(WIIFM) With everyone doing more with less these
days, employees will only put effort into
activities that have a real benefit for
them. For employees, focus on the ability to
map out their own development, to get the training
they need to be productive, and to build their
value to the organization. For managers,
focus on the increased employee engagement that
career development can bring, greater efficiency
of a more fully-developed team, and reduced cost
and absenteeism when employees attend only the
training they need.
3. Provide real-time
performance support. No matter how
good your initial training programs are, there
will be some time lapse between training and
application. Job aids, FAQs and step-by-step
instructions that employees can access
quickly at just the time they need them are one of
the most essential components of your training
program. WebMentor Skills, Avilar's
web-based competency management program, allows
you to imbed your own context-sensitive help files
- including video demos - on each screen of the
development planning module. One client
calls this feature
"Trainer-in-a-box".
Best wishes for a
successful program. Keep us posted on how
things are
going!
Cheers,
Chris
Hipple
Director of Workforce Development
Solutions
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the Benefits of Online Training |
Many
small and medium sized businesses are realizing
the benefits of moving some of their training and
development programs online.
Typical
online training uses:
- On-boarding
- Career
development
- Certification management
-
Skill / Knowledge reinforcement
Why offer
online training?
- Save on travel expenses
- Allow users to train on their
time, from a home computer
- Allow usual trainers to focus on their own
jobs - Deliver better targeted training &
see improved performance results New
research by the US Department of Education shows
that online training provides better results than
traditional face-to-face training, and a blended
mix of online and face-to-face training is even
better. Read the
full report from the US Department of
Education.Avilar's WebMentor
LMS supports these best practices by managing
both online, eLearning courses and live,
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Avilar Technologies,
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