Collaborative Learning Is A Major Benefit Of Virtual Training

With people working remotely and dealing with professional and personal stresses alike, leaders are recognizing the value of collaborative learning. Investing in the workforce and keeping people engaged and growing is an effective way to walk the talk of those repeated value statement phrases about people being a company’s most important asset.
by Steve Schmidt
In the past, getting top-level buy-in for virtual training was often an uphill battle. It wasn’t easy to convince leaders that training, particularly in soft skills areas like sales and service, could be conducted effectively without everyone being in the same room together.
One of the reasons for that pushback was that people often confused virtual learning with e-learning or simplified it to technology-based interventions that may or may not have had a true learning component. This tactical approach focused more on the delivery mechanisms than what the business and the learners would get out of the investment.
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