Business

Business Plans: Etraining

E-training is a reflection of the modern climate in the corporate world. More is being done with fewer people and the slack is being picked up by technology. Training new employees was never the favorite job of management but it was a necessary evil if they wanted people to do things the way the company wanted them done. Now, though, technology allows for extensive training with fewer people needed to do the training.

Large corporations can send trainees through a cycle of video introductions and PowerPoint presentations to get them up to speed and familiarize them with the corporate environment. It is almost entirely possible to train a new employee without having to dedicate any human resources to the task. This will probably never be the case, however, because human interaction is still the best way to learn–at least until corporations get working, roaming holograms.

With the ready-made graphs and charts in PowerPoint, trainees can quickly be shown the corporate structure, the areas of concentration and expansion, and where they fit in the greater picture. Trainees can get gain a better understanding of the company as a whole in a much shorter span of time. As human resources are ultimately limited, anything that can be done to make a task more efficient is going to prove beneficial to the company in the long run.

The Downside of E-Training Exclusively
Since setting up training sessions and holding meetings is so simple, and schedules and agendas can be so quickly prepared, the temptation is to overdo it. Most people would prefer to interact with another person rather than with a video and PowerPoint graphics alone. People will sometimes tend to zone out if there is not a person with which they can interact. The lesson is that the right amount of e-training can be very beneficial, but there are limits. Use presentation tools to make your training more effective and memorable, but dont let the tools be the presentation.