The Basics

Despite the rapidly growing use of various distance learning technologies, there is still a lot of 4-walls training going on in the corporate world. But in today's economy - AND with all the pressure on business to "Go Green" - it's definitely time for traditional training departments to begin exploring some of the other possibilities.

Those of us who have been around for a few economic cycles - or maybe more than a few - know one of the hard truths: in tough economic times, "Training" is often the first department to experience the downsizing / right sizing or whatever term is being applied to cutting jobs.

And we Trainers know another hard truth: when companies are reorganizing with smaller workforces, training is needed more than ever.

Corporate Training in a Lean Green World is here as a support and an idea sharing forum for corporate trainers & training departments. We'll talk about building a business case for shifting from 4-walls to virtual training ... about specific skills trainers need in this new environment ... about the proven superiority of IDL (interactive distance learning) over traditional 4-walls training, in some applications ... and more.

Next post ... the primary advantages of IDL over 4-walls.