The days of classroom based training and education are fading.  Today, more than ever, organizations are seeking to provide more information and training with less cost, effort, and resources.   eLearning is the answer.  A blended learning environment will not only provide information anywhere and any time, but alos reduced training time, paper waste, and becomes a resource that is recycled over and over for maximum ROI.  The abiltiy to edit without waste is a major benefit of eLearning vs. traditional; allowing new content to be utilized with out the traditional outcome of outdated paper based learning when new materials become avaiable.

Ed Stengel Business and Budget, eLearning

There was a time when doing business outside your town, state, country, or continent meant taking a car, bus, train, or plane to get there.  Endless hours of being “on the road”, preparation time like calling a travel agent, or even worse, doing it all yourself.  Then we had to lug all our materials in a briefcase..or two for the big presentation.

That was then… and this is now…

Almost every company world wide is going global.  How?

1. Technology - Technology such as online meetings and web based training, internet based communications have opened up a new world of business beyond our imaginations in 1985…  (So I am dating myself)  Companies have a new business model - a global one, and the successful businesses utilize these technologies daily.

2. Training  - Keeping up with the Smiths and Jones has become keeping up with latest competitive edge of technology that allows for and provides a global out reach, bridging oceans and deserts, ending in a little Cat5e line to the back of their computer.  More and more often I find that anyone is more available and more accessible for an online meeting than in person…most often with amazing results.   People of every walk of life eat this stuff up.

3. Tactic - What is your plan to meet the global needs, and demands of the new century?  Has your organization invested in the latest technology to survive or compete?  More importantly, have you invested to succeed?  Your target market knows what it wants, but do you know what it wants?  First and foremost, a global presence today is needed to survive, a global command to succeed .

4. Timing  - Global organizations knew when to go global… and it’s now.   This is not the internet boom of the late 90’s… this is reality, and to survive at a minimum you need to look and feel like a trusted global organization.  I see it more and more as off shore companies compete for my business.  This begs the question of why not compete for theirs on their home turf?  We will all be competing globally before you realize it.  Catch the wave early.

5. Teamwork - The essential part of any new business model is team work.  There is “no army of one” in a global market.  Organizational knowledge is one of the key factors in a global initiative.  Together the parts of an organization that makes the whole should work together to create a global strategy that works for each and every department, slowly weaving the parts together for a solid foundation to a global business model.

Ed Stengel Business and Budget

In a marketplace of doing more with less, Brookwood can make the defining difference in achieving your training goals. Our years of experience assessing, creating, and deploying enterprise and custom eLearning solutions produce effective and engaging learning results.

From consulting and strategic curriculum development, to custom design, development and enterprise eLearning roll outs, Brookwood has the experience, expertise, and resources to effectively meet your organizational training objectives on time and within budget.

Brookwood Capabilities Include:

• eLearning Strategy and Consulting
• Instructional Design and Support
• Custom Module Development
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Multi-media
  • Assessments
• Strategic API’s
  • eUniversity
  • mLearning
  • Interactive real-time
  • LMS Lite
• eLearning Development Templates
• eLearning Best Practices Guides
• Enterprise eLearning Deployment
• eLearning Support
• Training

Brookwood Partnership Provides:

• Industry Leading Technology and Solutions
• Veteran Experience in Solution Development
• Proven Capabilities that Yield Results

Ed Stengel Business and Budget, eLearning

A green solution (from Brookwood) can extend the budget you have by reducing hard costs associated with traditional business operations.  A green solution incorporates efficient work flow processes though application development that improves processes by reducing or eliminating time, effort, waste, or spending.  Simply streamlining a manual process with workflow automation can impact an organizations bottom line expense in varied ways driving profit margins little by little, and some times great.  How can you improve your organization’s processes today through automation? Think about it, everyone can, how can you?

The implementation of eLearning in place of or in addition to instructor led training may have some up front cost, however the return on investment by deploying a system of knowledge transfer that is easily accessible and self paced will not only reduce the cost of that knowledge, but also can become a competitive advantage overall.  ELearning as part of a blended training program can yield higher results by always being available as a corporate or client resource of information that requires little effort to maintain.  This in and of itself can be a service differentiator that will win extra business for your organization, or provide the right answers to those who seek it, driving visibility and credibility.  How can you implement some type of scalable eLearning program within your organization? It can make a big difference in the way you do business, and the way your clients view your business.

Ed Stengel Business and Budget, eLearning