| Description: | Both online and traditional corporate training have their advantages and disadvantages, and complicated logistics are a big disadvantage of the latter, as organizing a number of corporate seminars and workshops can be a real headache. However, it is not always possible for companies to fully replace their traditional training programs with online ones, as they still need some of the benefits that traditional training has to offer, such as social interaction among employees. This is where blended learning for corporate training comes in: by using a blended approach you can reduce the number of live seminars and organize the rest via video conferences without worrying about locations not being convenient for all of your employees. This way, you can easily distribute your training material through your Learning Management System and, of course, contribute to the follow up of both your online and live seminars by offering additional information for further online discussion, or conducting surveys and polls to evaluate the effectiveness of your training. Last but not least, a blended approach is not only more convenient, but also much more eco-friendly; just imagine saving printing material for so many employees.
One of the biggest challenges corporate trainers face today is motivating employees to participate in the learning/training process. This is especially daunting for organizations whose training tools and strategies have failed to leverage the technologies that their employees are using every day in their personal lives. To motivate today's learners who think nothing of playing video games with people all over the world, streaming videos on demand, connecting with others anywhere and anytime-all via a smartphone or other mobile device- takes a lot more than having them click "next" during a training exercise to keep them motivated and engaged.
Coaching is about making the impossible possible. Clients have specific wishes they want to fulfill and can not seem to find a way to do it on their own. Generally it is because they are seeing the world as they have always seen it and are using tools they have always used (They are working within their given context). Reaching outside their given reality (their context) to find what is missing, and has been unavailable up to this present moment, allows them to generate new interpretations and new ways of being that then allow the impossible to become possible. Coaches inquire about a client's past to reveal how he has been being that has life show up the way it does in the present. The client gets to see how they have been generating the same results for years, maybe decades, just by maintaining a particular belief that they took on at a very early age. In order to generate new ideas, interpretations, ways of being and doing, a client will need to choose to see things differently and then act differently in order to generate the desired results. This is a fundamental characteristic of coaching. It requires the coach to continually think outside the client's box, or context in order to distinguish what is occurring for the client. When a coach gets caught in the client's context he is unable to see the forest through the trees. He will see only what the client sees. The coach's job is to remain neutral and objective so as to always be in a position to empower clients to generate fulfilling lives. |
