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How it works

The move from traditional in-house training to multi-disciplinary training must be well prepared. Adding eLearning to traditional training elements requires a well-thought eLearning strategy. This must include all three components of eLearning, i.e. the environment, the method and the content. Click’n Learn™ covers them all.

The most common way to start the eLearning project is to share information that is crucial for everybody in the organzation. This can be e.g. quality, strategy or the content of the corporate manual.

In the following simple example an international corporation aims to train the corporate strategy for the entire staff. The idea is that the employees first study the basics in the web. Then, when this is done, they participate traditional training sessions to discuss and to process the newly obtained information.

Example

Wecome to study the corporate strategy!

Please, read carefully the text below. Pay also attention to the link material chosen for your convenience. Click the underlined blue notions to open the link. If you feel unsecure with the key terms, move the cursor onto the blue colored dot on the left side of a bolded word. A textbox will appear explaining the meaning of the word.

Finally, test what you have learned by the Self Test.

As with private people, companies have future goals as well. These can for instance, be improving the profitability or a greater market value. Once the goals have been agreed on, the process to decide how to achieve these goals begins. The selection of solutions is called the company strategy.

A strategy is usually presented in a short and concise form to make it easy to adapt by all employees. For instance, if the goal is to improve profitability on a global level, then the strategy could be to "concentrate on speciality products". After this is decided, the actual ways to achieve this and the schedule are discussed. The outcome of this is called a procedure plan and it includes the operative plans of the company. If the employees are not familiar with the strategy, they are unable to participate in the making of the operative plans...and so on.

Self evaluation

Read the questions carefully. Then click on the blank ball on the left-hand side of the answer, which you think is correct. You will see immediately if you have answered correctly or incorrectly.

1. What is meant by the company's market value?
a) The amount of cash that a company has
b) The number of a company's stocks times the price of its stock
c) The size of the company's market share

2. Corporate strategy must be explained
a) only to the upper management
b) to all employees
c) to the upper and middle management

3. An operational plan tells
a) how to avoid unnecessary risks
b) who can make decisions for action
c) what to do in practice

If you could answer the above questions you are familiar with the key notions of the strategic planning. Now you participate the part II of the training to discuss and process the newly obtained information.

Effective follow-up

The Click’n Learn™ is powered by a study tracking program, called the ProfileGenerator™. It allows the training coordinator to follow-up the progress of the trainees of the platform. The coordinator also sees the time spent for the studies and develop the content to better meet the individual training needs. Ask for more information about the ProfileGenerator™.