When You Think
Training, Think Green
May 2008
In your
organizational ecosystem, are your training programs maintaining proper
proportion with the strategy, growth and balance of the overall unit? Are your
training programs keeping pace with the company objectives, and are you
utilizing resources adequately to manage your initiatives,
engage learners and achieve your training purpose? When considering the impact of
your training programs on your environment and the collective costs associated
with accomplishing your instructional goals, it may be far-sighted, and
prudent, to think green.
Becoming
a friend to the environment is a respectable goal to which we can all aspire,
and introducing E-Learning software to your
established training environment will create the means to achieve this environmentally
friendly objective. Online training will reduce waste, recycle existing
training material, conserve energy and use clean technology to reach out to
your employees, customers and students.
Recycling is becoming more pervasive
in every industry and every community. Why not introduce recycling to your
educational programs? A web-based training system will allow your learners to
view those traditional paper training manuals online, and while they’re at it, save
a tree. It is a given that training material is often outdated as soon as it is
printed, so why not eliminate the paper, maintain up-to-the-minute information
and let technology take your training online?
Energy
costs continue to soar, and one way to combat this trend is to introduce
conservational processes such as web-based programs that will save precious
internal resources and materials. Instructor hours, development stages and classroom
time are easily converted to student self-paced learning, repurposed content
and computer-based instruction, which can occur anywhere and at any time.
Ecologically aware managers should be keen to recapture valuable time and
energy.
Balance
is a key component of any successful training program, and the link between administrator,
subject matter expert, instructor and student cannot be broken. An E-Learning approach to creating and dispensing training
material will create balance for both the trainer and the student. A web-based
training environment will foster an economical yet robust setting that promotes
organizational growth through knowledgeable and skilled employees and
customers.
Travel
and production-related emissions will negatively impact your environmentally
friendly approach to knowledge management and are in direct contrast to a
company’s desire to go green. Minimizing your carbon footprint, no matter how
limited the initial effort, will have a marked impact in the long run, and the
more you conserve, the easier it will become.
We’re so convinced that going green with an online training system will save you time, resources and money, even our blue man has gone green!