Four Reasons to blend with Abbey
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1. Fully Customised to your needs
- Custom
- The cornerstone of the blended approach is to deliver the most effective learning possible.
This means choosing the right training methods, delivering the right content, and personalising the content to your organisation and its learners.
- Tailored
- Fully customised e-learning can be expensive to develop and is often not the most efficient method of training. Where excellent training already exists, there is little point in trying to reinvent the wheel. An important part of our approach is to appropriately reuse elements of existing programmes, tailored to your needs and customised to form a good fit with the rest of the training programme.
- Branded
- All of our training materials can be styled to match your corporate identity. This can help demonstrate your commitment to learning to your staff and have a positive effect on productivity and staff satisfaction.
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2. Effective Learning
- Right Tool For The Job
- With Abbey's blended learning approach, you can be sure of using the right tool for the job.
Each training method has different advantages and disadvantages.
Many vendors have invested heavily in one approach or another, and many technology-driven e-learning companies
will try to sell the same high-tech solution to each of its customers. At Abbey we will carefully analyse
your organisational and training needs, and build a solution which is matched to both your requirements and strategy.
- Live Tutor Interaction
- At Abbey we believe that technology has a role to play in enhancing corporate learning, but it is not a panacea. E-learning cannot be used for every purpose and we believe face-to-face interaction with a trainer or coach is an essential part of any blended solution.
- Self Paced
- Blended training programmes are broken into small chunks. E-learning chunks can be taken at the learners own pace, and learners can even be given the flexibility to pick and choose modules where it is appropriate.
- Standardised and Consistent
- An often overlooked benefit of e-learning is that it provides consistent and standardised training. Whilst trainers often strive to deliver standardised training (and Abbey has a stringent standardisation process), the human-factor means that the training will often vary from seminar to seminar and trainer to trainer.
With e-learning you can ensure every member of your organisation has access to a consistent, standardised base of knowledge.
- Measurable and Testable
- Managing the learning of your organisation does not stop when the training ends. It is essential to continually evaluate the training that has been done, providing feedback into the staff development process. Blended learning adds a new set of tools for measuring and testing the learners' performance and the impact of the training programme on your organisation.
3. Ease-of-management
- Managed
- At Abbey we offer a fully managed solution. We aim to develop a long-term relationship with our customers, enabling us to deliver fully end-to-end solutions taking you from needs analysis, through the development and delivery of training, followed by the evaluation and improvement of training.
- Continual Evaluation
- At Abbey we believe in a continual evaluation and improvement process which ensures the training programme is operating effectively. We work closely with the relevant staff in your organisation to evaluate
- how the training is working,
- what impact is being made on performance,
- and what improvements we can make.
- Built-in Reporting
- Our learning management system provides customised reports. The reports can be generated on-demand or reports can be automatically generated and e-mailed on a regular basis.
- Hosted
- We can offer a fully hosted solution, where the online component of the blended learning programme is fully administered by us, on our high-performance internet connected servers.
4. Cost-effective
- Efficient
- You would be forgiven for thinking a solution this good must be expensive; however this is far from the case. Blended learning is focused on providing an efficient, value-for-money solution, by spending your training budget on the most effective methods, huge cost-savings are possible.
- Train more staff for the same cost
- The online components of blended learning can be accessed from anywhere at any time. This single innovation means:
- there is no productivity loss through removing staff from work
- there are no travel and subsistence costs
- there are no location hire costs or trainer fees.
This means that once the programme is developed, more staff can be trained with greatly reduced costs.
- Virtual Classrooms
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If you have a geographically dispersed workforce, virtual classroom technology brings the savings associated with e-learning to seminar based training.
