Companies choose training to reach their goals in terms of team effectiveness and to closely handle the issues they face in the field. Blended training enables the comprehensive assimilation of professional skills.
We operate in a fast-changing market, requiring companies to rapidly adapt their teams. Hence, not only has the market evolved, but so have companies.
Proposed training should follow the same trend: the omnipresence of IT in companies should ensure more adapted and more effective training solutions solutions for employees. Today, traditional training is facing obstacles:
Blended learning is a mix between e-learning and practical application using a smart simulator. This training path, along with the intellectual assimilation it implies, is made possible thanks to a specific training and learning process.
“Where does it come from? What skills does it imply?”
Blended learning takes the participant’s initial profile as its basis to offer customised and targeted training.
“You are a 108 times more likely to progress using a serious game.”
Ewing Marion, Kauffman Foundation
A serious game, or applied game, is a recreational and educational, real-life simulation tool. Participants are immersed in a seamless working environment, with the possibility to test the extent to which decision-making can affect company figures. This is performed in a virtual environment, free of any pressure linked to real-life risks.
This new professional skill simulator serves as practical experience for participants. It allows them to more calmly put the theoretical skills they have gained into practice within their respective companies.
“On average, a serious game is run 3 to 4 times a year by a participant to improve his or her results and understand potential mistakes. In some cases, simulators are known to have even been run 42 times by participants who wished to increase their results.”
(internal source from Actando)
Field sales representatives (SFEs, marketing managers, and so on) are in a position to assess blended training needs within their own companies. Nonetheless, all employees are aware of the reality of business. It is therefore necessary to involve all the different statuses in the blended project’s preparation phase.
The delay for implementing a blended training path partly depends on the type of programme needed by the company. It is possible to implement a blended training path in less than a week if there is already existing content and if no specific adaptation is required.
Depending on the company’s specific needs, a customised training path can also be performed with an upstream development phase consisting of e-learning modules, tests and specific serious games spread over several months.
“Actando is committed to ensuring follow-up until 80% of participants have been qualified.”
(Ksenia Yancheva – Director of International Actando Operations)
All training tools are available online, allowing Actando to identify the needs of everyone and adapt each phase of the learning process.
Actando’s blended approach is recognized for: