This is a guest post by Jason Silberman, Marketing Director of WalkMe.
Training managers who work for large companies are constantly faced with the challenge of working with new employees, who need to be quickly introduced to both their expectations and objectives, and the technical aspects of performing their daily tasks. With high levels of competition and the need for performance and efficiency, managers need their new employees to reach proficiency status as quickly as possible, without having to spend fortunes for them to get there.
This, coupled with the repeated budget cuts most training sectors were forced to deal with over the past several years due to the global financial situation, has pressured senior managers to look for new and more efficient ways to boost employee competence and productivity on a budget. Having said that, the question is inevitable: how can managers train their employees quickly, to ensure that they are able to successfully and independently manage complex tasks within an organization?
A new eBook recently released by WalkMe, provider of a popular Internet-based self-help/guidance software for websites and enterprise software, looks at this question directly. The eBook, titled Express Train: How to Accelerate Employee Time to Competence, is aimed at all the challenges and obstacles organizations and senior managers come across during the employee training period. The book (25 pages) contains factual and useful tips and hints on training, as well as several top-notch training strategies that can be easily tailored to meet the employee training programs of large organizations from all industries.
There are several aspects that make this compact eBook stand out from the rest, and one of them is that it will guide the manager throughout the training period and it will provide support following the initial training sessions. Moreover, the eBook also encompasses the best practices that should be used in the field of performance support and formal training. As a matter of fact, the book contains valuable pieces of advice on how to choose the best instructor or how to get the best out of every training session by making it entertaining and unforgettable with videos, physical activity and even educational games.
As stated above, the eBook offers support even after the first few training sessions, where the manager displays the key information and offers the new employees a brief introduction to the company’s profile. This information, however, needs to be repeated on an ongoing basis because only this way the employees will manage to remember it in the long run. At the same time, the eBook relies on the principles of performance support and feedback monitoring and analyzing, two aspects which are considered vital for the success of the training.
In addition to this, the eBook also features various appealing training techniques, tips to keep the employees motivated in the long role, tips on how to design clear training objectives and stick to them and so on.
In conclusion, this eBook is highly recommended to senior or line managers, external learning consultants and trainers who want valuable and factual information that will help them offer high-quality training based on in-depth, comprehensive and easy to understand information.
