Training for the downturn

It can be hard to justify training budgets during an economic downturn but there are many ways e-learning can help, both in terms of reducing the cost of training and in providing specialist content.

It is important to maximise productivity and minimise cost in a competitive environment. Incorporating e-learning into your employee training strategy offers:

• Significantly reduced cost per seat of training, as little as 20% of the cost compared with instructor lead courses
• On going access for employees and the ability to train around their work schedule
• Easy management and tracking of learning to maximise return on your investment
• Automated course evaluation surveys and follow up surveys to help justify your training spend

Facing redundancies?

If, like many organisations, you are forced to consider redundancies, you will want to follow best practice by ensuring your managment team is aware of the relevant legislation and procedures. Course Source offers e-learning that specifically covers redundancy procedures and appraisals such as "Getting Redundancy Right" from Morgan Cole.

It is also good practice to offer employees training for finding new work once they have been selected for redundancy. Course Source offer the leading e-learning courses covering interview skills including Anson Reed's "InterviewGOLD" and "You're Hired!" from Video Arts.

Course Source's software as a service, hosted learning managment solution is particularly suited to providing rapid delivery of a portal for employees managing and facing redundancy. What's more, as the portal is accessible from the employee's home over the internet and is external to your IT systems, ex-employees can have ongoing access as they look for work after they have left without having to have access to your IT infrastructure.