Flexible Training Methods

Learning is a Process not an Event!

Do you remember learning how to drive; for most people it was a process that combined formal training, hands on experience and a little social interaction, you continued to develop those skills long after the learner plates were removed. You may never have mastered those skills if that driving tuition had been a one off event where learning was confined to the classroom and offered very few opportunities to practice, make mistakes, review and revise.

Many training courses are built like events, something that happens once at a given place and time. You design it, learners attend, there is some fabulous interaction, and then it’s over! However, the typical work year represents approx 2000 hours and during that time people continue to learn and develop, just like you have continued the process of perfecting your driving skills.

I can learn with or Without You!

People are always learning, there is no on and off switch but people don’t learn just because we created a training course, sometimes learning is part of a formal process and sometimes it is not........and just like the process of learning to drive a person’s learning throughout the year will consist of formal instruction, courses, interactions with colleagues, a little research and reading, some experimentation. It’s a continual process of taking in information, making decisions, and getting feedback. So, it seems that to really make training stick, we need to find an effective method to make the most use of those 2000 hours.

This is where a blended approach to your training and development provides some interesting opportunities because it allows you to create flexible and memorable training and development events using a range of methods and that process enables many more opportunities for feedback, practice and interaction than a one off event. 

Retention of the learning improves when your learners are able to take small bites of learning and digest it put the learning to work and then come back for another bite when they are ready.

As with any approach to teaching and learning, the quality of learning is crucial. A blend, rather than a single approach, is more likely to offer something to all the different types of learner.

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One size doesn’t fit all!

That’s why we design training courses that provide  optimal learning experiences to reach all of your learners whatever their leaning preferences.

We want learners to feel the benefits of their investment in personal development and empowered to make fundamental changes to attitudes, behaviours, processes and procedures. We pride ourselves on our flexibility to adapt our style and methods to meet the needs of each unique individual learner

Learning Media

Spectrain have designed flexible training and learning solutions using a combination of methods for a number of organisations each with their own unique challenge.  We work with organisations in the oil and gas industry with employees from many cultures based in remote areas that present difficulties in accessing the internet, to high security organisations with custom built firewalls who require flexible learning for people working across a number of sites and shift patterns read our customer comments here:

A flexible learning solution is like a balanced meal, we create solutions for successful learning using a combination of methods

 Benefits of Blended Learning

• Scale – Using a blend of learning methods you can deliver a new programme or initiative to global audiences 

• Timeliness - Perhaps you need to communicate the release of a new product, quickly. If the business problem is NOW blended learning is the answer.
  

• Cost Effective - don’t confuse blended learning with e-learning, it offers far more  flexibility at a third of the cost! Blended learning enables you to select the most effective and accessible approach to training and development at the lowest cost  to progress the learning.