Keep your employees on the inside track by offering regular training. Keep your company on track by using Web-based learning.
Anything you know for sure is probably already obsolete. Keep your employees on the inside track by offering regular trainingâ€"and not by chaining them up in time-consuming classes or spinning their wheels in long commutes to seminars. Web-based learning offers up-to-the-minute training in almost every field. And like a host of other Internet services that give your team what it needs to compete, online training doesn't cost a fortune.
Web-based learning sites offer varied course catalogues that hold their own against any community college, with subjects ranging from how to choose a travel agent to advanced Java programming. Leading the pack is Learn2.com, where you can sign your team up for any of 1,600 preestablished courses and monitor their progress online. Or create customised content to give them the industry-specific skills they need most.
Try Learn2University for corporate accounts. Logging on from home or office, employees can take any of more than 200 self-paced, interactive courses. An easier way is to set up your employees with the Learn2.com Smart Card. You can buy the cards online or at your local Staples store and hand them out to your staff. The serial number on the back of the card specifies which courses it's good for.
For online learning with a more technical focus, check out DigitalThink. The site offers Web-based instruction in fields like NetWare administration and C++, and includes online interaction with course instructors. Try the selection of free sampler courses, ranging in topics from value selling to Linux administration.
If your needs are more specific, try DigitalThink's custom e-learning solutions. For US$25,000 to US$40,000 per course hour, DigitalThink will design programs specifically for your company, your partners, or your customers. You host the courses on DigitalThink's servers.
