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Hi, Chris Osborn, VP of Marketing with BizLibrary and today's Q&A comes from Sarah, she's an
HR Manager from a mid-sized professional services company and she has a question that something
that everybody that does employee training and development confronts at some time or
another. And it has to do with training content. She wants to know- Are there effective ways
to incorporate third party content into an existing training program? And I want to start
with a fundamental statement about that, about the value of incorporating third party content.
You can increase the reach of your training significantly by using an online solution.
Typically when we're talking about our own content, we're talking about instructor led
content we develop on our own, one course, one learning object at a time. We bring in
a third party to help us out, we gain access to a whole range of resources that we simply
don't have the time and resources to generate. So right out of the shoot, we gain access
to an enormous volume of resources that we're never going to have time to pull together.
So how do we incorporate these resources into our program? Well the first thing you want
to do is identify areas where you have the need to improve performance. And stay focused
on that. Stay focused on the need to improve performance. Don't get bogged down with doing
a needs analysis. All you're going to focus on there is training inputs. What you want
to focus on are training outcomes. And that's improved performance. Focus there, and you're
going to start to really find places where that third party content can really start
to make a difference. We also want to make sure you're looking for, as you're looking
at third party partners, look for selection, do you have a broad selection of content?
Do you have a selection of different styles of content? What's the quality of the content
that's available to you?And how's the content going to be delivered? Can this content be
delivered on a mobile platform?Can my employees get at it any way they want to, any time they're
on any device of their choosing. And I don't do this very often in our blogs, but I'm going
to today. Que shameless plug- BizLibrary has a solution the Bizlibrary Collection that
I would invite you to take a free trial of. If you're considering third party content
for your solution, then this could be a great opportunity for you. So, when you're contemplating
incorporating third party content into your training solution, make sure you focus on
areas for improved performance, make sure you're picking a solution with a great selection,
great quality, and the ability to deliver it to your employees anytime, anywhere, on
the devices of their choosing.