Larger organizations

Is your organization grappling with a constantly changing marketplace and internal reorganizations? As a training and development professional, are you increasingly expected to deliver real organizational benefits from your employee training programs within shorter time frames and often with smaller training budgets? How are you meeting this challenge?

Larger organizations are continuing to adopt ever more comprehensive enterprise-wide Learning Management Systems (LMS) to deliver, track and report training programs and expenditure. Small to medium-sized organizations on smaller budgets are also finding ways to identify, track and report employee skills. Our inexpensive employee training tracking software can help you meet your tight training budget whilst delivering up to the minute automated reports on all aspects of your workplace training.

Training Programs and Project Management

Also having an impact on the training industry is the increased attention being paid to the discipline of project management. “Projects” with unlimited budgets and never-ending timelines trying to satisfy fuzzy organizational objectives are becoming tolerated less and less in today’s business world. Hence, the demand for project management training has seen a dramatic rise in the last ten years. With this we have also seen an increased interest in project management tools and methodologies. Check out our project management software section for tools, templates and guides that can help your organization manage and deliver projects better.

How we manage training projects has also matured. As discretionary budgets have continued to shrink, rolling out expensive employee training programs to satisfy ad hoc requests from department managers with no clear organizational rationale is no longer a viable option. More training projects are now being run using an Instructional Systems Design (ISD) model.

Using such a model guarantees that the learning objectives of the training program tie in with a real organizational need. It also raises an organization’s confidence that the training program will be of high quality and satisfy the needs of all major stakeholders. Check out our guide on writing learning outcomes and our training projects template pack to help you deliver training projects more effectively.

Training Tools and Resources for Effective Training

Budget constraints and increased business competition have also led to a recent emphasis on the payback on training expenditure. Poor training needs analysis (TNA) and change management practices in the past have led to an extravagant wastage of training budgets, with experts estimating that only some 10 to 20 percent of training dollars spent leads to some organizational benefit.

Donald Kirkpatrick’s traditional four-level model remains as the most used model for evaluating the effectiveness of training. This, however, has been supplemented by Jack Phillips with a new fifth level, Return on Investment (ROI). Investigate our Training Evaluation Toolkit for a comprehensive guide and tools designed to help you evaluate the effectiveness of your training programs.

How much are you using the new performance consulting approach in improving the effectiveness of your training programs? With this approach, poor employee performance is diagnosed with an accurate and effective employee performance diagnostic tool before any action is taken.

Using a systems view, all workplace factors influencing employee performance are considered. The upshot is that training may not be the appropriate solution to a performance shortfall in every case. The eventual solution may be multifaceted, highlighting process deficiencies, irrelevant or inadequate rewards and recognition, ineffective goal setting, and so on.

Using this approach, training is no longer a naïve single-point solution, but is perhaps just one component of the final package. Check out our eBook, From Training to Enhanced Workplace Performance, for a practical guide and many customizable templates that you can use to improve the effectiveness of your training programs.

Training Systems Best Practice

Is your training management system becoming more effective and efficient in delivering organizational capability? Many training professionals have continued to move their organizations towards training best practice. Some do not know where to start.

Excellent human resource best practice models have been available for some time. Two prominent examples are the U.S. People Capability Maturity Model and the British Investors in People. As excellent as these models are, they are not specific to training systems. Our training best practice model, however, is specifically designed for training and development practitioners. Our Training Management Maturity Model features an evolutionary approach to achieving best practice. Coupled with an assessment, analysis and reporting tool, training managers are now able to take measured steps in improving the effectiveness of their training system.

The training management software tools and templates in this section will help you manage your training function and training programs. We invite you to investigate.

Training Tracking Software for Managing Employee Education, Training , Licensure and More!

The most powerful Education Training Tracking Software Conductor, the best learning management system LMS for scheduling, tracking and registration for all your employee education.

Conductor® is the most trusted training tracking system for all your employee education and training needs. Your employees are always on the stage. Your public expects nothing less than a flawless performance. All the training materials needed to make an efficient and productive workforce are on hand, but can they be united to deliver the most effective worker education experience possible?

Finally, training tracking software that works for you!

Conductor® is a Learning Management Software system that empowers you to track your employees’ training and education which is needed to complete their job at the highest level of success. Quickly and easily track employee training, licensures, certifications and qualifications by employee, location or branch. The Conductor® LMS software also allows you create employee profiles, assign classes, track attendance and facilitate employee access to view their class offerings and schedule. View our Training Tracking Quick Tour for more features

A successful employee Learning Management System allows you, the administrator, to easily organize and oversee your employees’ training with ease unlike ever before. The training tracking software enables you to orchestrate your employee training, licensures and certifications to ensure that your team is working at optimal efficiency- at all times. Finally, LMS software made just for you!

Conductor Learning Management System LMS combines Employee Tracking, Curriculum Develpment, Curriculum Design, Training Scheduling, Training Tracking, Training Registration and Reporting all in one affordable easy-to-use training tracking software package.

Ready to improve your company's training program and make your administrative job easier at the same time with an affordable easy-to-use learning management system?

Manager training plays a vital role in the performance and profitability of a company. It helps support the company's growth strategy, expand the skill set of its managers, drive employee engagement and retention, and improve overall productivity.

Thus, it's no surprise that a December 2009 survey of 131 Heads of HR from 124 midsized companies by the Corporate Executive Board's (CEB) HR Leadership Council identified that improving managers' capabilities at supervising their direct reports is their second-highest priority (following engaging and retaining employees).

Despite the significant impact manager training can have on a company, half of the 447 midsized companies who responded to CEB's HR Leadership Council's March 2010 Manager Training Survey do not have a formal manager training program in place. Of these companies, the majority (64 percent) cite 'lack of resources' as the largest roadblock that prevents incorporating a manager training program. Other roadblocks include 'complex training design process' (20 percent) and 'lack of support from top leadership' (15 percent).

As the economy recovers, companies are now planning to make manager training investments. According to CEB, Sixty-three percent of these companies plan to launch a manager training program in 2010 or 2011.