Wednesday 13 March 2013

Organizational Learning goes Online

The organizational are in a continuous state of flux and change. The need for employees to upgrade their learning and skill is vital, crucial and important for both: The employee’s success and the success of the organization in today’s competitive and cutthroat competition filled market. Every person today understands the need to continuously upgrade their skills and update their knowledge bank to make them better equipped and indispensable to the organization and their needs. Being proactive and upgrading, your knowledge not only adds value to your employees but also enables them to contribute to a better organization and its development.

What are the options for learning an organization has?
Enterprises have always have had classroom based training, learning, skill development, and soft skill training programs designed for their employees, often limiting the number of participants. With changes in technology and development in remote connectivity have enabled the organizations to increase scope of employees covered with each session and reduce cost for organizing the training sessions. But, online learning has taken it a step further by reducing costs, making it more manageable, interactive and yet productive for the organization.

Given the changing dynamics of business and need for regular training and development, online learning is developing into a feasible and viable option to take care of an organization’s diverse and ever changing learning needs.



How can online learning make an organization’s learning curve smarter, faster and smoother learning?
- With ever-increasing employee database and high amount of cost involved with training, managing logistics, employee needs for varied amount of learning stages managing learning for employees across the organization is not an easy task.
- With online learning, communities, website and modules, managing employee and organizational learning is becoming easier.
- As an organization, working closely with learning and development teams, enterprise can develop modules that employees can access, complete and take evaluation tests based on their assessment and your organization’s strategy for learning needs and modules you need.
- Online learning will ensure easy track of each employee’s progress, success and fail rate enabled with easier tracing, reporting and analysis.
- Online learning can also ensure that the feedback is collected and you can improve your learning modules based on employee feedback

Last word on online learning
Many websites are now making available programs and modules designed for an organization’s specific training needs and taking care of the whole process from start(designing the learning program) to end (evaluation post training). This also means an organization can even outsource its learning needs, yet have an optimum level of control over the trainings, and develop learning plans feasible to its needs, requirements and market conditions as well as aligned with its long-term strategies.

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