Whether family-owned businesses or thousands of employees: internal training is a challenge for companies of all sizes. E-learning can be a relief for bosses and employees alike, making your training even more efficient. In this article, we show five classic problems and explain how e-learning solves them for you.
Many companies have already experienced that training seminars and workshops are less effective than initially hoped. They often take up a lot of time and employees retain little of the discussed content in the long term.
Nevertheless, training is very important! Almost three-quarters of all German companies conduct company training at least once a year. Only 61% of companies hold in-person seminars. Already 66% rely on e-learning. The increasing popularity of e-learning in companies is primarily due to five problems associated with traditional training.
Traditional training in the form of an in-person seminar.
Common Training Problems for Many Companies
Surely you are familiar with at least one of the following five major problems that often arise in corporate training:
Problem 1: Organization
Your employees are located at different sites and would have to travel for an in-person event. This involves immense effort and costs.
Problem 2: Language Barriers
At different locations, your employees might speak different languages, which are hard to cover in in-person courses.
Problem 3: Different Learning Media
Especially young employees prefer to work digitally. You can particularly struggle to effectively use traditional "analog" training methods with slides or manuals with this group of "young professionals."
Problem 4: Low Motivation
Your training measures aim to convey primarily theoretical knowledge. In live events, this is often tiring and dry for employees. Motivation and learning success are affected.
Problem 5: Little Sustainability
Pure in-person trainings have historically been less sustainable for your employees and have delivered a low learning effect.
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E-Learning as a Problem Solver in Training
For many of these common problems, there is a solution, and it is called e-learning!
By offering your training measures online, you not only save time and money but can also train your employees more individually. Especially in today's world, you should utilize the media at your disposal for your purposes! We give you a brief overview of the benefits of e-learning – and how these benefits can solve the mentioned problems. After all, a working internet connection as a prerequisite is already present in every company!
With e-learning, you can offer your training everywhere and are always connected.
Solutions through E-Learning for the Five Training Problems:
Solution for Problem 1: Organization
You can offer your courses flexibly online, so your employees do not have to travel to a specific location, nor adhere to a fixed schedule. This reduces the effort for both organizers and employees – and saves costs.
Solution for Problem 2: Language Barriers
You can provide your content in the online course in various languages. This way, you ensure that everyone understands and that employees from different countries can learn together.
Solution for Problem 3: Different Learning Media
Through digital training, you particularly reach young employees, as they are very familiar with technology – additionally, you increase the fun factor! In e-learning, you can utilize the concept of gamification to motivate your employees to learn in a playful manner.
Solution for Problem 4: Low Motivation
Even "boring" theoretical knowledge can be particularly well conveyed via screencasts and explanatory videos. Videos explain knowledge not only more easily but also bring variety and motivation to training. Another advantage: In such processes, employees can repeat your explanations as often as they like and learn at their own pace.
Solution for Problem 5: Little Sustainability
By combining various learning methods, knowledge is better retained. With e-learning, many options are available for this purpose. For instance, are you familiar with the method of blended learning? It combines in-person and online learning, significantly increasing the learning effect!
Do any of these problems sound familiar to you, and would you like to address these issues in your company as well? Then you should quickly convince your team of the benefits of e-learning in training!
So that you can also win over your colleagues and superiors for e-learning, we have prepared 7 arguments for blended learning for you. This will help you and your company to successfully enter the realm of online training.
