Gear up your remote training program with this toolkit from Talance. It’s a plain-talking, easy-to-follow guide designed to provide you with a basic introduction to remote professional development and give you a fundamental understanding of how to choose plan for, set up, and run a successful online training program.
An online training program has many phases, activities, and tasks. You probably learned this when you were building your e-learning course. Ongoing online course projects need tending like a garden. As you move from the launch phase to the maintenance phase, you’ll still need to keep managing time. In practice, program managers, facilitators, and administrators …
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Time to clock in? Find the tried and true time management strategies that online learning experts use and recommend for staying on track of work and development. It used to be that the response to “How are you?” was “Good! How about you?” and not “busy.” But times have changed. Especially as we move towards …
A successful online training program begins with your team. Bringing onboard the right brainpower is key in leading successful training for your participants. Unlike traditional learning programs, your remote learning staff should be well trained in working with an online student base. Online training is an entirely different experience from in-person learning. As such, instructors …
Training is communicating, at its most basic. So, if you’re not delivering your agency’s educational material in a language that makes sense, your learners will have trouble understanding. You need to offer multilingual training if you want to address cultural competency, safety, productivity, and compliance. Many public health programs have employees who don’t speak English …
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If you need one helicopter, order two. That’s a lesson we learned at Talance when creating an online course on Incident Command System. ICS is a language that all emergency responders know, including the police, firefighters, and Coast Guard. That way when there’s a disaster, everyone knows what to do, no matter who they work …
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Organizations that are moving their online training program into an online space are faced with a difficult decision that will endure for the life of the program. Does it make sense to hire a new facilitator who is skilled in online work, or train an existing employee to do the work?
Both decisions have pros and cons, and ultimately organizations must make a decision based on their individual needs. However, there are some clear benefits and drawbacks.
One top pro is that you know your employees and what they do. You have a history with them that indicates how adept they are at change or if they have untapped skills that can be used. It can make the transition much smoother. Internal employees also know you and what you do. It takes less time for these kinds of hires to understand the details of your organization and your mission. An existing trainer also has in-depth knowledge of your material and audience.
It pays to think about the best ways you can reach your training goals, whether that’s through remote online learning, in-person workshops, or a blended approach.
Being a strong leader is a central part of managing an online classroom. You need to guide discussions, resolve conflicts, and set boundaries for virtual class behavior for the training session to be successful. Here are some techniques and strategies that will help you manage your online classroom like a seasoned professional. Follow these practices, …
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Deciding to train health workers in an online classroom versus a traditional in-person setting is the easiest part of the undertaking. Virtual learning is an easy answer to educating a quickly growing workforce that has restrictions on travel, time and money.
The difficult part is in the execution. Most training programs for healthcare teams offer live instruction, and converting those training materials into an online format is about as easy is it is to move from a house you’ve lived in for decades.
