E-Learning with Call of the Wild 's Online Development Academy
E-Learning for a Real Return on Investment and Embedded Learning
We are pleased to announce the establishment of Call of the Wild's e-learning online development academy. This exciting new facility is designed to both enhance our face to face development services and also to act as an invaluable learning resource which our clients can use throughout their managerial career.
This has been stimulated by feedback from our clients. A number of recurring issues kept arising:-
1. Firstly time away from the office and its associated costs. Most training and development programmes will require time away from the office. Therefore the more this can be eliminated the better.
2. You're all busy people with heavy workloads but with the desire to further your vocational knowledge to enable improved performance and progression. E-learning is an excellent means of achieving this difficult balance.
3. Retention of learning. Course material can be posted on the site together with pre and most importantly post course material.
4. CPD - For continued learning after the programme and throughout your career.
It provides practical online management education that is geared towards business managers. It is most successful as a blended learning approach i.e. linked to a company's values, behaviours, competency frameworks, performance reviews and/or off-line training initiatives
Cost Effective Learning with a Return on Investment
- A blended solution i.e. able to link with a client's own learning initiatives, for example, off-line training courses, computer-based training, policies & procedures, Learning Management Systems etc.
- The ability to track and measure usage, as well as increases in knowledge/behaviour/performance
- Quick and easy to implement
- A demonstrable return on investment
Examples of typical applications include:
- Generic management education/leadership programmes
- Sales academies
- Transformational/change management initiatives
- Cultural change programmes
- Performance management support
- Graduate programmes
- Policies & procedures
- Accreditation
- Membership Organisations
- Management training and/or sales training organisations
Generic Management Education/Leadership Programmes
Senior management may need a management education or leadership programme to drive a specific corporate strategy. For example, improve overall business performance, customer service, organisational effectiveness, employee productivity etc.
Learning & Development professionals may need to
- Improve management competency without the time burden of classroom training
- Increase the effectiveness of the learning experience
- Find a solution suited to employees in disparate locations
- Sustain learning after classroom training to maximise time spent away from the day job
- Avoid sheep-dip training i.e. cater for individual needs and knowledge levels
- Reduce training costs
- Improve soft skills in specified areas e.g. time management skills
Sales Academies
An online academy can be tailored to the needs of a specific functional area, for example, sales. Sales directors/managers may need to
- Ensure consistent processes and behaviour amongst their sales teams
- Train sales people to improve performance by matching their behaviour to clients values
- Train sales people how to be good managers
- Equip sales people with broader business skills
It is important to align your sales staff with your customers needs . Achieve this through our Customer Relationship Behaviour Tool.
Transformational/Change Management Initiatives
According to the 2006 CIPD Learning & Development survey, there is almost universal agreement (93%) that a consideration of the learning and development implications of change is critical to success. Many clients come to us because they need to communicate a new vision or business strategy; or they need to change managers knowledge, skills, behaviours or attitudes.
Cultural Change Programmes
Companies sometimes need to standardise a company culture fragmented by mergers & acquisitions or high staff turnover due to attrition or high growth. They may need to
- teach managers what good behaviour looks like in their company
- translate competencies into behaviours
- ensure consistent (changed) behaviours
Performance Management Support
Another driver for an online academy is performance management. HR professionals may need to,
- Put in place a programme to support leaders or high potential individuals
- Find a mechanism for rewarding good (& shaming bad) learning behaviours and management styles
- Give recognition to high-performers/learners
- Build development action plans
- Link education/learning to a 360 degree feedback process
- Receive guidance on good performance management practice and a tool for ensuring consistency
- Respond immediately to learning short-falls
- Focus actions on areas in most need of development
Graduate programmes
Graduates often need to be taught self-awareness and be educated in areas that they don't learn at university such as leading through change, building a team, coaching and mentoring, communications, motivation, personal profiling etc. An online training and development resource can be supplemented by quarterly workshops to discuss learning experiences, and access to external one-to-one coaching/mentoring.
A common challenge for companies with graduate trainee programmes is how to make graduates feel special in order to retain them long enough to recoup the training investment. Our blended solutions dedicated to graduates can assist with retention rates.
Policies & procedures
Our academy can be used to support HR professionals in larger organisations and managing directors in smaller organisations who need to
- Provide an induction mechanism for new employees
- Communicate and provide easy access to the employee handbook
- Support diversity
- Communicate discrimination, sexual harassment, health & safety, risk management policies etc and provide evidence that staff has read and understood the policies
- Put an appraisal process in place
Accreditation
Our academies can help you to achieve Investors in People accreditation or to adhere to new standards.
Find out how you can take advantage of this powerful learning tool. Contact us today to obtain your login details.
