As an enterprise there are few things that define your success. Apart from your products/ services and your marketing plan, the quality of Training imparted to your employees plays a major role in your success in a competitive market. Training helps your team stay updated with new trends in the market, increases their knowledge of the latest technology and imparts new skills and trades. Naturally enterprises are always looking to improve their training program and align it to their larger business goals. Online content management tools are helping them improve their training process and stay relevant in an ever changing market. Here we take a look at five ways in which these content management tools have changed training for ever.

1. It Makes Training Cheaper
   Streamlining costs and making best use of resources are a major focus for every enterprise. When you opt for online content management tools you will be able to bring down your training costs substantially. To start with these tools allow you to create large volumes of reusable content that can be used across training sessions either on an as-is basis or with some modification. Thus your trainers won’t have to spend time and effort ‘reinventing the wheel’ as they most likely do without ever realizing it.
2. It makes Training Sessions Interactive
   There is one thing that differentiates between a periodic event and a productive one – INTERACTION. If you are able to facilitate interaction between your trainers and the trainees these sessions become productive and help you achieve your desired business goals. One of the core ideas behind the use of content management tools is to make training sessions interactive. Trainers can easily create attractive presentations with these tools and allow the audience to actively participate in the session by the means of quizzes and polls. There is more scope for arguments, debates and discussions in these sessions as all the participants are actively engaged in the process leading to a positive outcome.
3. It Allows Remote Training
   In today’s world of business where enterprises operate in multiple geographies most businesses are seeing the benefits of remote training. Conducting physical training sessions is both expensive and time consuming and with online content tools which are a part of a larger e-learning platform training sessions can be remotely organised. But remote training does pose its share of challenge and it is with respect to how trainees and trainers interact when separated by hundreds and thousands of miles of distance. This is where audience response systems come into the picture and allow trainees to pose question or share their opinion with the trainers.
4. It Allows Customization of Content
   When business is spread wide and there are employees spread across different verticals, training challenges multiply. How do you prepare customized training materials for different groups of trainees? How do you ensure that your training material stays relevant in a dynamic market? A content management tool would address these needs as training material can easily be customized based on the changing trends in the market. Since the training material is easily available on a cloud they can easily be customized at will. Different teams within the enterprise can collaborate in preparing training material that addresses the addresses the changes that are taking place in the market.
5. It makes Evaluation and Reporting Easy
   Evaluation of training program has always been a big challenge for enterprises. There are two aspects to this evaluation – measuring the performance of the trainees against established benchmarks and at the same time gathering feedback on the performance of the trainer during these sessions. The fact that multiple training sessions are conducted around the year only adds to the complexity. Content management tool used for training come with their in-built evaluation and reporting feature that allows enterprises to gather real-time information on the performance of their employees during training sessions. Tests can be conducted whenever required using audience response systems and the results shared with the trainees almost immediately. Trainees can also provide feedback on the performance of their trainers that leads to overall improvement of the training process.

With all these benefits online content management tools are a must have for your training program and can help you improve productivity of your team.

Summary – Here in this write-up we take a look at some of the benefits of online content management tools and how they can help your business.

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