Putting Online Training to Work for Your Project

Joe Wynne is a versatile Project Manager experienced in delivering medium-scope projects in large organizations that improve workforce performance and business processes. He has a proven track record of delivering effective, technology-savvy solutions in a variety of industries and a unique combination of strengths in both process management and workforce management.

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Xavier, a project manager at ABC Company, is sending people to online training for compliance and certifications. He believes this training is just a waste of time because workers just click “Next” while doing other work. He’d rather have their help putting out fires associated with recordkeeping and inadequate project performance being in an organization that has a low project management process maturity.

Xavier meets Laura, a project manager in his company who doesn’t seem to suffer the same problems. He asks her, “How do you do it?” She explains that she takes advantage of opportunities to improve how her projects are managed. One of the easiest ways is leveraging the online training workers complete.

Laura explains that she makes sure she formalizes the routine for online trainees to bring back useful tips and techniques.

Formalize as continuous improvement
The biggest benefits are achieved when the most ideas are considered by the most project workers:

• Prepare the workforce by telling them to bring a short list of improvement ideas from all online training courses. All online training is included, such as mandatory enterprise compliance courses, departmental/functional courses, certification courses and so on.
• Organize meetings or social media discussions where ideas are prioritized to find the best short- …

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