This obviously impacts on the employee, with companies demanding increased personal productivity and real benefits to the balance sheet bottom-line performance. There is more to learn and less time to learn it in. All this puts a greater strain on our time, thus ensuring that we can't afford to be away from our desks for conferences, training, workshops and meetings as often as we would like. The associated administration becomes top heavy and trainers suddenly appear to be administrators first, drowning under the weight of papers, questionnaires and course materials. Hand in hand with the increased pace of life we are seeing a move towards wider corporate networks, distance offices and remote workers.
Physical distance brings a whole new set of problems to the training dilemma.
But there is a solution. But very few companies as yet are combining these with the benefits and advantages of the trainer led classroom. It's not a cheap alternative, but it does provide a dynamic solution. IDL should be able to recreate the advantages of the classroom over distance. It can be 'to the desktop' direct to an individual who doesn't need to leave the workspace, or to training classrooms or a combination of both.