Corporate Training Trends for 2020 - Rational Selling & Sourcing

8 Trends In The Future For Corporate Training

At Rational Selling & Sourcing, we believe the biggest shift in 2020 is going to be training that occurs seamlessly as a part of employee workflow. Compartmentalized trainings that are day sessions are being phased out as on-the-job training with immediate application emerges as a winner.

As we enter the new year, it seems that new corporate training trends are embracing newer technologies. Let’s look at what the future of employee training is for your business.

With everyone connected through smartphones, the aspects of our lives are now more integrated than ever. Just as push notifications alert you to sales when you walk into a store, so too will future corporate training initiatives drive more integrated training opportunities, with microlearning still leading the way.

There are a lot of training options being marketed – software, programs, conferences etc. To help you cut through the noise, here are some emerging trends that we feel are the future of corporate training.Contact Our Experts

1. Adaptive Content Delivery

Content delivery is driven by machine learning and artificial intelligence, that adapts to your employees’ corporate training needs is also emerging as a way to personalize the training. Gamification is a good example of adaptive content delivery which predicts learner behaviour to keep training relevant and interesting.

2. Soft Skills Training

Maybe you have not really considered the importance of focused training for soft skills as imperative to the success of your business, but it’s time to reexamine that thought.

Research shows that 75% of long-term job success depends upon soft skills excellence and only 25% on technical skills. LinkedIn also identified soft skills as the number one training priority among CEOs. Soft skills are going to be the future of workplace training.

3. Virtual & Augmented Reality

Virtual and augmented reality has been around for a while and is going to be very important for training going forward. VR is now expanding to more areas as a way to practice a skill before it actually needs to be applied. Augmented reality offers benefits from customer service to healthcare and beyond. VR allows employees to test-drive important skills with minimal risk.

4. Virtual mentorship programs

The competitive job market pushes college graduates to have great technical skills but little understanding of how to apply them. Online mentorship programs, either through your own company or outside of it, can help coach these inexperienced workers to increase their productivity, longevity, and chances of success.

5. Improvised Instructional Design

One of the corporate training trends to watch in 2020 is the rise of improvisation in instructional design. This uses materials readily available in a given space to design instruction and can go far beyond just teaching skills or facts. The improvisational design also teaches problem solving and teamwork, two of the all-important soft skills mentioned above.

6. Repositioning training as a corporate benefit

More and more companies are now positioning employee training as part of the benefits package instead of something that is a burden. While much of this has to do with the quality and relevance of the training itself, on-the-job training can help employees improve their skills and advance their careers, all on company time. Packaging this as the holistic development of your employees is more in line with the expressed values of the younger generation.

7. Microlearning

Microlearning continues to play a huge part in the future of corporate training, providing employees with bites of information or instruction that can be immediately applied to a task or project. This trend would continue all across 2020 too.

8.Resource Challenge

Resource challenges are bound to become bigger for all organizations in the industry as we are always looking for improved employee efficiencies, better productivity & better return on investment. This calls for innovative approaches in L&D which enable organizations to reskill, utilize and retain their best talent.

More and more CXOs, L&D Heads, HR Heads realize that the incremental benefits of investing in a better Learning Partner is a better option than investing in managing employee turnover.

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Our Solutions_____________________________________________________________

We at Rational Selling, we understand the importance of employee training and development and are at your disposal to provide you with the right trainer, at the right price, in the right place, in the right language and at the right time.

Whether in technical training, driven by digital transformation initiatives, or HR development programs in the areas of leadership, or general Soft Skills, we have a wide range of certified talents, with the right content, to take your employees’ productivity to the next level. I am convinced that we can make that essential difference.

Over the last 10 years, Rational Selling has successfully delivered over 500+ client’s projects for some of the best Global companies in America, EMEA, APAC regions covering more than 30 languages. Our training solutions have saved our clients a lot of money in resource hiring costs by helping them quickly train and reskills their existing workforce.

Scope & Scale_______________________________________________________________

Here are a few examples of successful Multi-Location, Multi-Lingual, Global training programs delivered by our experienced instructors:

Leadership & Management:

Managing Global teams
Thriving to Change
Problem Solving

Sales Academy:

Presentation Skills
Opportunity Management
Territory Sales
Large Account Management
Selling to Senior Executives
Value Selling,
Story Telling,
etc.

IT Technology:

Skype for Business deployment
OneDrive and SharePoint.
Google G Suite migrations
CompTIA Certifications A+, Security, etc.
Avaya, Cisco, Amazon AWS Certifications

If maximizing the potential of your employees is your top priority, Schedule a call with us!

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