Closing an office meant the death of business just some years ago, now it means development. The survey at the beginning of 2020 showed that around 85% of employees worldwide work remotely at least once a week and their amount grew daily. However, the global shutdown caused by COVID-19 forced the entire world to find their feet in a new reality.
It made millions of organizations adopt a distant working mode and cope with the challenge of managing a remote team with almost no lead-time. We have already written about the benefits and development peculiarities of project management tools for overseas teams. However, the challenge was complicated with the necessity to get remote employees onboarded and trained, on the one hand, and engage the existing specialists into the activities to enhance their professional skills and expertize, on the other.
In most cases, people working from home demonstrated little motivation to learn something new, devoting their time to things more prosaic. That’s why our article today is about distant teams training.
Due to the situation in the world business owners started to look for effective ways of coaching remote teams more actively. Even the common remote team tools failed under COVID-19 new reality, since all the usual processes were being completely restructured. It opened prospects to a fresh business stream—e-learning services.
So, let’s take a closer look at this direction.
Needless to say, that direct interaction in the office is quite motivating and for distant employees, the necessity of training is not always obvious. Moreover, there are a number of challenges related to that.
The main of them are multiple distractions, which prevent the trainee from 100% focusing on studies and lack of human interaction, which can be solved through group training. When properly arranged, remote learning can motivate for active engagement and collaboration.
The other difficulties worth mentioning are lack of access to information and technical issues. That brings us to the understanding that for proper remote team engagement e-learning technology content and services should be well-organized, properly designed, easily accessible, and have a good technical infrastructure.
It presupposes a convenient platform, stable connections, appropriate software, intuitive interface, and simple yet effective functionality.
To engage employees in learning is not enough, it’s important to make it efficient. The most effective way to train your staff remotely is to provide an interactive digital solution for the purpose.
There are several aspects to keep in mind when e-learning software development services are considered.
The modern market of training solutions offers multifaceted technologies and tools, which facilitate and enhance the remote learning experience. Let’s take a look at some of them.
Corporate training needs specific solutions, Linkedin Learning Solutions and Business Learning Solutions may become excellent examples of such products. Let’s see into the matter in more detail.
A learning management system is what you need for the purpose in the first turn. Such an integrated system allows to build a training course to match your educational needs and track learners’ attendance and progress.
At the same time, software solutions of such kind offer wide possibilities for content creation. You can choose any form you need – text, presentation, video, simulation, games, etc. Nowadays it’s essential to guarantee mobile compatibility and integrations with third-party services, for video-conferencing, for instance.
Tools for video conferences provide you with the opportunity to have training sessions in real time and bring your remote team together. Such solutions come in handy when face-to-face interaction is important. Zoom, Skype, Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting – the choice is variable and up to you or e-learning services company you choose.
In case you use some project-management and collaboration tools in your working routine, you can use them for training as well, especially if the learning materials are texts or videos. Google, Slack, Dropbox, Google Drive, can be quite beneficial for the purpose.
When choosing an off-the-shelf solution you are always restricted with its inbuilt options and modules. It’s at times difficult to adjust the out-of-the-box tool to your specific e-learning technology content and services. That’s why we advise custom e-learning software development.
With many years of software engineering behind and distant employees in our own staff, we realize the pains and challenges of coaching and managing a remote team first hand. That’s why the Axisbits team is ready to give a helping hand to any client who needs training software for remote employees.
We always carefully consider the requirements and tasks our clients set forth. However, there are some common features, which make for exceptional user experience in software products. We think any solution should be:
To cut a long story short, our experts are ready to create an innovative e-learning solution for coaching a remote team with all your needs and requirements in mind supplemented with the existing best practices and our own experience. You can contact us at any time and get an expert consultation concerning your project.
Under the present shift to distant cooperation, the companies should focus their effort on how to engage a remote team and train the workforce to remain competitive in the modern world. To help your employees reveal their fullest potential, we advise you to equip yourself with an effective corporate software solution for continuous learning.
Now you know the challenges, principal features, and important aspects to keep in mind, and can define what exactly you need and want to implement.
Axisbits is eager to translate your educational needs into training practices through software development and enhance your business to a new level together. Let’s discuss it and create something amazing.
