Gone are the days when employees only work from a cubicle. Now employees are spread across different cities and countries. And most employees are hopping on “The Great Reshuffle” bandwagon for more work satisfaction and flexibility. To accommodate a distributed workforce, organizations are becoming flexible and adopting blended learning strategies to engage and retain their top talent.
Training the distributed workforce is surely a challenge that cannot be overlooked. Your learning and development team needs to take a step back and rethink their enterprise learning strategies. For some companies, rethinking learning means abandoning traditional training methods and moving towards online learning. Online learning is undoubtedly a powerful medium to disseminate knowledge, but that doesn’t give us a reason to eliminate traditional learning that has its own perks.
Let’s delve deeper into the two methods that make up blended learning to discover how this L&D strategy can be more impactful for your employees.
The pandemic forced L&D professionals to debate various learning and development strategies. Online learning captures attention, but traditional learning continues to be a tough contender. Yes, there are a few corners that traditional learning fails to touch, yet it cannot be completely replaced by online learning. For instance, the conventional learning atmosphere gives you the opportunity to:
Traditional learning might not fit into a daily work routine. However, in-person training is essential, especially for frontline roles, where it is critical to demonstrate the process.
Due to ease of accessibility and a high level of flexibility, online learning has gained popularity in the last few years. Moreover, digital acceleration post-covid fueled online learning, making “digital learning” a common buzzword for the L&D industry.
Digital learning brings learning into the flow of work. Employees can conveniently turn their free time into productive learning hours. And asynchronous learning enables trainers to design and deliver course content that the learners can consume at their own pace.
Yes, online learning cannot replace traditional learning, but it allows you to:
Online learning surely misses out on traditional in-person interactions, yet, it encompasses several benefits that can support employee growth and even improve employee retention.
Whether you choose online or traditional learning, you may miss out on a valuable L&D experience that can contribute to the overall growth of your employees.
So instead of making the tough choice, embrace the power of blended learning to develop your employees.
Let’s look at an example of how we do this with Disprz.
In this way, you can leverage blended learning to train the employees. With an upskilling platform, you can strictly focus on employee growth. Therefore, using this learner-centric tool, you can effortlessly utilize blended learning strategies to:
Blended learning fits especially well within a hybrid work environment. You can easily train employees online, provide feedback, and assess their performance through traditional interactions while they are in the office.
Online and traditional learning both have their own advantages. So embrace modern learning technology to have the best of both worlds through blended learning. You can easily switch from an online learning environment to in-person training and align the learning with the business outcome.
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