Showing posts with label cost-effective training. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cost-effective training. Show all posts

Thursday, December 24, 2009

The role played by Learning Management System in reducing a company’s Carbon Footprint

Learning Management System plays a major role in training employees on how to control carbon utilization and also prevent further damage from being carried out. Almost all companies use different kinds of fuel to make sure that their company is producing various products to maximize their income. Most companies are least bothered about the various consequences of the increased use of fossil fuels, the emission of greenhouse gases, the carbon footprint they leave behind and also the global warming that occurs as a result of all these things.


Today, multinational companies are using a number of strategies to reduce their carbon emissions. Some companies have full time experts who try to get this job done. There are other companies that use other kinds of methods to try and reduce their carbon footprint. One of the most effective methods is by using a Learning Management System through which training is imparted to all staff in the company about methods to reduce carbon footprint.


Learning Management System provides intensive on the job training to all the employees working in an organization. This ensures they all comply with the regulations defined to the decrease emission and prevent wastage of energy. There are some very simple methods that can be used to reduce greenhouse gases and also to reduce carbon footprints.

Employees are trained about recycling, how to reduce power consumption, etc. Each and every employee working in the company can try to do this because they will not only be saving the company a lot of money by recycling, but would have also played a major role in reducing the carbon footprint.

Learning Management System also makes sure that each and every department in the company is able to prevent wastage in materials. This process helps to reduce the amount of carbon footprint that is left by the company. This Learning Management System method of training the staff is also efficient because of the huge number of staff working in the company can be trained for a very less cost. This helps to save the company a lot of money and also ensures that the company is efficient in its functioning by reducing the amount of emission.

Related post: Learning Management System Brings Curriculum that will help Educate on How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

Friday, November 27, 2009

Factor Wisely when Opting for Learning Management System Training

One advantage of choosing to deliver training online via a learning management system or LCMS is the cost benefit.

Savings from online learning will come from many sources, including the relatively low cost of materials, travel, seat time, and administrative costs. For example, it generally takes at least three times as long to build e-learning material than it goes to create face-to-face training. However, depending on your needs, online training is typically quite cost-effective compared with face-to-face training.

The time spent by the learner in the learning environment (aka "seat time"), is one important source of savings when going the online route. Depending on the learning material, online learning usually has a pronounced advantage over classroom training in this regard. Research suggests a roughly 50% reduction in seat time when a course is performed online. This depends on the content, of course, but for most types of learning material it applies.

Your ability to change the format of learning material into many kinds of media (video, audio, text, etc.) is inherently time-saving. For instance, content is read about twice as fast as compared to its spoken form (for example, written text versus a lecture). Learning management system training, rather than allowing someone to do all the talking, allows learners to just read about it. Here one might argue for the interactive component of a classroom learning environment. Not to worry---we'll get to that in a minute.

Second, think about your audience when opting for or against online learning. Do your students already have experience with online learning? How can you make the training experience an enjoyable and effective one for your students? In what ways do you expect them to benefit from online training? And finally, how will a learning management system help you realize these objectives?

Develop and deliver interactive training courses with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Simple user interface, potent and cost-effective.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

LMS Sales Training for Sales Strategies of Today

The number of organizations using a learning management system to create and deliver online sales and compliance training to employees is on the rise. Why?

Sales strategies, and therefore sales training programs, are undergoing sweeping changes in recent years and even months. New sales strategies are a response to different factors including the economy (tough economy = difficult clients) and the different ways in which customers and potential customers are using the internet.

LMS online tools allow leaders of training programs discuss and demonstrate sales principles in an efficient and simple way.

Another great benefit of learning management system-delivered training is the interaction that is made possible between learners and the insrtuctor. Learners can contribute to discussions started by workshop leaders, role-playing and receiving coaching on telemarketing processes and skills. Because learners are given the self-paced convenience inherent to online learning, such online interactions are often a effective means of practicing skills than in-person ones.

Harvard Business School professor Mikolai Jan Piskorski has dedicated years to studying online social networks and how people use them. A recent post on the Harvard Business School blog discusses how Piskorski helps organizations develop strategies for leveraging social networks for profit.

According to Piskorski, corporate marketers struggle with how to use social networking to reach customers. The main problem is that execs think of online social networks as social media, and treat them as simply another channel to get people to click through to a website.

Then there is the shift from pitching to engaging a potential customer in a conversation. The ability to listen and respond to a client's needs, ask the right questions, and overcome objections by listening rather than pitching are increasingly taught as effective sales techniques.

Conversation-building and tapping into online social networks are just two examples of how traditional sales methods are being edged out, as new sales strategies are able to respond to factors such as new forms of media and new economic circumstances.

Online sales training for an organization's sales professionals and managers can be organized and delivered internationally, linking a company’s LMS to its various human resources departments and ERP systems, to perform multi-locational, cost-effective and efficient training.

A learning management system serves an important role in keeping track of tasks, goals, and learners’ training activities and achievements, in order to ensure that successful sales strategies are executed down the line.

Create and distribute engaging learning experiences with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. Easy to use, robust and reasonably priced.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Natural Law Challenged with LMS, E-Learning Training

It may seem obvious, but it's something with which many companies considering a learning management system to deliver training are still coming to grips: Tough times mean tough clients.

However, many organizations are rising above that natural law. For companies seeking an edge in the competitive market created by the recession, online training can help tremendously with everything from cutting costs to training employees to be more professional and efficient.

Courseware developers are using all the available on e-learning platforms like Coggno--and an increasing number of these tools are applications offered by e-learning platforms.

Applications exchange partnerships help courseware creation toolkit providers help organizations create more feature-rich and low-cost training. On Coggno's LMS, Blueberry Software screen capture software is one such app that now integrates seamlessly with the Coggno learning management system.

Course creators who use BB FlashBack 2.6 to make screen recordings can now integrate the recordings with their curriculum, using Coggno's simple course creation tools, and then deliver training through Coggno's LMS. The combination of Coggno's tools and Blueberry 2.6 offers a more versatile and multimedia learning experience for trainees.

As an e-learning course creator, BB FlashBack allows you to record everything you see on your PC screen. It also records your commentary, PC sounds and webcam as picture-in-picture video to give your course content a personal touch. You are able to make a personal appearance in your own course, providing demos and tutorials to students. With BB FlashBack's user-friendly design and quick, automated recording steps, users are able to transform course content into a richer, more dynamic experience and give courses a more professional touch.

Using BB FlashBack, you have total control over what students view, so there's no need to rely on stock simulations or outdated demo in a training program. You yourself create, edit and apply it to your e-learning course. And employing Coggno's LMS which includes a text editor, SCORM publisher, question banking, video tool, audio tool and podcast producer, and assessment and quiz tools, organizations are able to provide feature rich training cost effectively.

Design and syndicate robust courses and training with Coggno's Learning Management System (LMS) Online. User-friendly, powerful and affordable.