Lirio, the company's head of training, seems to be very happy. It has been hard work designing their action plan, hiring the best instructors, creating the right environment for all staff to attend courses, negotiating schedules with bosses, etc. Everything is ready to start the activities; it seems that everything will come out to ask for but…. Most of those designated to participate have yet to arrive.
This situation forces him to execute desperate actions: urgent calls to those registered, offers, search for employees in all the company's sites, etc. in the end the effort is in vain the course was developed with few assistants.
A few months later, Lirio has returned to being the accomplished professional, she has found how to solve her absenteeism problem through technology….
Our story becomes daily in some companies with formal training programs, where the expected results do not come to be crystallized by the setbacks of the jobs themselves, which to some extent erodes the resources invested in training.
In response to this type of situation, technology and advances in the field of learning and training are helping us to develop alternative processes so that people get new skills or improve those already obtained.
In this sense, the evolution has been very fast, starting with the self-training process and evolving to e-learning.
As its name implies, this turns out to be the way in which the employee himself is responsible for his learning with the help of electronic means through the Internet and that the company provides him, (in some cases) when his own limitations they don't let you participate in group instruction.
These limitations may include the lack of time to attend seminars or courses, the great distances between the workplace and the place of instruction, the need to be on the job at the time of the course, etc.
Although this modality is already being applied in other areas, for organizations, it is an effective response to employee contingencies.
This can be adequately taken advantage of when it is planned as part of the training system itself and is included in it.
In this sense, aspects of the skills required for each position come into play, and above all the willingness and commitment that the employees themselves assume before this methodology, mainly in relation to wanting to learn and for some reason not being able to participate in the scheduled courses..
On the other hand, virtual training requires program managers and adequate evaluation parameters by area managers, which in many cases are provided by companies specialized in the subject.
Companies that contemplate the use of virtual training must have within their investment the means that will be used in it: networks with a permanent Internet connection, virtual training rooms and people who follow up on the programs prepared or acquired by the company.
With technological advancement, access to Internet sites would also be included in this category, where with the availability of time the participant can monitor this and even bring with them the own evaluations of the contents of the courses.
For the sector in charge of training people within the company, virtual training programs can be of great help, since it is feasible to stabilize the knowledge that they want to transmit.
This type of system can favorably influence the costs of training departments. At the same time, it is also possible with them to increase employees' opportunities in terms of the means of learning and knowledge available to them.
Virtual training also offers an alternative to large companies with many subsidiaries, and can be an ideal response to the instruction of technical and theoretical programs at great distances, despite all the aforementioned benefits is convenient in organizations that implement a high level dissemination and awareness to the employee about the benefits of it.
As well as strict evaluation for programmed teaching with this method.
The above will be essential for such action to be successful. On the contrary, it could be the case that for employees this effort has no meaning and valuable resources are lost due to apathy or ignorance.
