2009年12月16日星期三

Echelon Corporation - Cutting aback on training is apocryphal economy, warns Echelon

In times of banking turmoil, organisations generally attending aloft training as a bendable ambition and so it becomes one of the aboriginal budgets to be bargain or even cut completely. Yet this can prove a apocryphal economy, warns the organisation development consultancy, Echelon.

”While training should crop its fair allotment of account cuts, abortion to advance agents hits competence, motivation, abundance and, ultimately, chump account and advantage - just at the time if award and befitting barter is vital,” explained Echelon’s CEO, Alistair Morrison.

“When anybody abroad is afterward the acceptable band of abbreviation training spend, it’s important to accretion aggressive advantage by advancement your investment in humans and performance,” he added. “However, this can now be done at a decidedly lower cost.”

Morrison argues that acceptable classroom-based training abandoned is both big-ticket and time-consuming - bolt which are acceptable to be in abbreviate accumulation for the accountable future.

Morrison added: “For abounding subjects, this can be replaced with appropriately educationally-effective but lower-cost interactive, online learning. Text-based and fully-featured e-learning added reduces costs and accurate overheads.

”Text is a accustomed average to learners and, with able pedagogical design, is a activating and agreeable anatomy of study.

“A advanced ambit of alternate accessories can be congenital to accomplish the acquirements absolutely immersive, calm with self-assessment to reinforce abstraction and accommodate affirmation of compassionate and progress. The accession of graphics, audio and video elements can be accomplished economically area their use is capital for the acquirements design.”

Echelon’s added than 20 years of acquaintance has shown, time and again, the amount of online acquirements because it creates the antecedent ability and again charcoal accessible to admonish humans of that ability if they crave it in their jobs.

”Echelon has complete a library of added than 2,000 all-encompassing acquirements modules that offers even lower-cost acceptance to above acquirements and development (www.learningmatters.com),” Morrison said.

”Developed application our own assembly apparatus and agreeable administration arrangement (CMS), we can aftermath abstracts both bound and economically and again broadcast to print, online and adaptable devices. The assembly apparatus uses Microsoft Word as its columnist interface, enabling applicant agents to coact in the development of abstracts and to crop approaching alteration and afterlight centralized application a accustomed tool.

”Well-designed text-based acquirements delivers ability and abilities calmly and can be deployed bound – which is addition benefit in times of accelerated change,” he said. “So, rather than chase ‘conventional wisdom’ of alone developing agents if times are good, Echelon durably recommends that organisations advance wisely now to abduction new barter and absorb agent and chump loyalty.

“Moreover, this should accord your organisation a arch alpha if the abridgement revives - and accommodate a aggressive bend if you a lot of charge it,” Morrison concluded.

-ENDS-

Echelon is an organisation development consultancy with a 20-year clue almanac of carrying targeted communication, training and achievement abutment solutions that absolutely accomplish a aberration to corporate, government and not-for-profit organisations and able bodies.

The aggregation helps its audience actualize and sustain bigger operational achievement by developing top levels of agent assurance and adequacy that advantage their adeptness to accomplish outstanding results, decidedly in times of change.

Echelon publishes a advanced ambit of business and administration solutions that action job abutment and constant career development: www.learningmatters.com

Clients include:

Channel Tunnel Rail Link
London Overground Rail (LOROL)
Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply
Department of Work and Pensions
Festival Housing Association
NHS
Royal Town Planning Institute
T-Mobile
Translink

Echelon Learning Ltd
Darwin House,
236 South Ealing Road,
LONDON
W5 4RP
UK
tel 0044 (0)20 8568 1500; web www.echelonlearning.co.uk
Sales contact: Alistair Morrison Tel + 44 (0)20 8568 1500

PR contact: Bob Little, Bo LIttle Press & PR, 23 Sherwood Avenue, St Albans, Herts, Al4 9QJ, UK Tel + 44 (0)1727 860405; Email: bob.little@boblittlepr.com

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