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The importance of training for remote workers
Climbing the career mountain is no easy feat, but with your help, it can be made a little smoother. Encouraging professional development not only makes an employee feel rewarded and motivated to keep pushing forward - it also creates a positive atmosphere in the workplace that reflects well upon everyone involved.
Providing remote workforce training provides just such opportunities for employees to further enrich their skillset at any time from anywhere. By making learning accessible according to individual preferences for both pace and format of study, you're setting them up for success as they journey towards reaching their peak potential.
Why build a good remote training experience?
According to McCrindle, the emerging generation of employees is driven by
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having purpose and meaning in their work (72%),
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a desire for their work to align with their core values (68%) and
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having a workplace that is a community of strong social connections (65%).
These numbers tell us that you should create a remote training plan so satisfying that you should be able to meet the new generation's expectations in a work environment. As working models change in an uncertain way, your employees may feel anxious and worried. You must therefore focus on the people factor, their well-being, and training for them to be able to tackle challenges in the business world - both physical and mental.
In that way, for your employees, you can build a remote training space that encourages them to do more. This will make them feel confident and reliable and support them both personally and collectively. A team that has a company culture and strong communication skills can solve problems together, persevere through hard times, and be there for each other even if the context is remote.
Challenges you can face with remote employee training
Now let's take a closer look at these and see how you can overcome them.
Technological challenges
A mobile device and wifi access. These are the two things we need for online learning. Any technical problem can occur during the training like internet outages, inconsistent internet access, out of order laptops exactly at this moment. There may be problems related to the camera and microphone that delay the program flow. But don’t forget that there can be problems that are beyond your control too.
How to solve: To prevent these kinds of problems, you need a robust and reliable information technology infrastructure. Contact with your remote employees to learn about their conditions and offer support if needed. This will build a robust relationship between them and your company.
Social challenges
Training employees at a distance may bring some motivation related problems. Sitting in front of the laptop alone for a period of time can be a very boring kind of learning process as you can imagine.
For this reason, motivation is a crucial challenge in remote lessons. Teacher as the instructor of the training is responsible for different learning materials to the employees’ desire to learn. You should be able to attract their attention with different kinds of materials, check their mood and behavior from time to time, and speak personally if there is a problem.
How to solve: With Perculus’s virtual classroom experience, you can easily make your employees feel like they are really in the classroom - only in a digital one. Take the advantage of breakout rooms, interactive learning activities and gamification in Perculus. to break the chain of social problems.
Engagement Challenges
Employees who have troubles with digital skills, social relations and remote working can have a bumpy ride during the remote training. They just need time and practice to do it right and until then, they are going to make mistakes surely. You should provide an understanding, reliable and open space to make them feel better at what they do.
How to solve: To overcome these engagement challenges, think about lightening the mood. Play games, spare some time to listen and see each other in the class, activate the minds and the bodies with some moves. Let them have fun! Care for their wellbeing. Thus, you can engage their attention and don’t lose them during the lesson.
Consider creating your own course flow and customize it for your company. You can increase engagement and create a more interactive course environment while adding some gamification and quizzes to your course flow. And with an organized course flow, you don't have to worry about scheduling PDFs, presentations and searching for documents.
Evaluation challenges
Office environment is used to allow you to control what your employees have been doing. By watching their computer screen, you would understand what and how they are doing. This over-the-shoulder area is coming to an end with the rise of remote training. You need another solution to evaluate the training, employees’ performance, and their satisfaction with the training.
How to solve: You can assess your remote employees with live reporting. Learn how they are doing with the training, compare their improvements and talk to the ones whose performance decreases, stay on the communication line, encourage them. Congratulate the ones who make a great improvement on the lessons. This feature helps you to be aware of the employees’ development wherever they are.
Engagement Index is a tool Perculus offers for evaluating the training overall. This analytics tool tracks every attendee’s assessment and participation, calculates an overall score based on the secret benchmarks and gives personalized engagement scores. According to the outcomes and the session’s state, it generates recommendations.
Training enables you to achieve higher quality results for your company while developing employees. Now you may need to prepare the most suitable training plan for your remote employees.
But don't worry. Regardless of your industry, you can successfully conduct remote employee training with a platform that meets your needs.
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