Global Learning By Cegos® - What Does it Mean for You
Cegos UK Joint Managing Director, Jeremy Blain, explains what organisations can look forward to with the recently launched blended learning solution - Global Learning by Cegos®. Over the last few years, Cegos has detected a clear market demand for learning solutions that incorporate more than one delivery method of learning and that place the learner at the heart of all activities. And the figures bear this out. Cegos’ own research has found that more than half of UK employees take part in the blending of different forms of learning activity including e-learning, live training and on the job coaching. Recent figures from the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) also found 95% of respondents agreeing that e-learning is more effective when combined with other forms of learning. There is clearly an appetite for blended learning, yet what are the key attributes that make blended learning successful, effective, and able to provide measurable returns to the organisation and the learner? Cegos UK’s new blended learning solution, Global Learning by Cegos® - consisting of a combination of self-assessment, face-to-face training, and e-learning sessions - helps answer these questions. Global Learning by Cegos® brings to the market what I believe is the most complete, learner-driven solution the market has ever seen. Here’s why: First and foremost, it is learner-driven. When we designed Global Learning by Cegos®, our first requirement was that all activities be appropriate, relevant and personalised to the learner. No mistakes from the past by getting dazzled by the technology at the expense of the participant. Global Learning by Cegos® places the learner at the heart of all activities with this being manifested in a number of ways. For example, with Global Learning by Cegos®, every individual will know exactly what path their training is taking, where they are now, where they need to be at the end of their learning path, and how it relates to their position within the organisation. In short, the whole learning process will have an unremitting structure and focus. Global Learning by Cegos® will also create a dynamic and stimulating environment for the learner, with none of the text-dominated e-learning modules of the past. Each Cegos e-learning module, for example, has a user-friendly interface and is designed so that the participant controls the action with as close to a live learning environment as possible. Each person can also personalise their training and learn at his or her own speed. And, with clear benefits to both the organisation and the learner, Global Learning by Cegos® will also focus on enhancing people’s hard skills required in today’s modern-day business. Role playing, case studies, problem solving workshops, and business practice sessions are all part of Cegos’ face-to-face learning experience, designed to replicate real-life situations that participants can take back and implement in the workplace immediately. Gone are the days of generalist, ‘tick-box’ training. Global Learning by Cegos® is also uniquely attuned and designed for the needs of today’s modern-day organisation. Name a challenge and Global Learning by Cegos® has an answer to it. For example, with employers looking to reduce costs, maximise their training budgets and increase employee productivity, Global Learning by Cegos® combines face-to-face tutoring with bite-sized online training. Global Learning by Cegos® results in less time spent on face-to-face training with employees away from their desks for shorter periods of time, reducing associated training costs, and increasing employee productivity. No more week-long residential courses. In addition, measuring training, fulfilling employee potential, and integrating training with corporate goals are all key needs of today’s business and, in all cases, Global Learning by Cegos® comes up with the goods. Cegos’ LMS (Learning Management System) platform, for example, enables the client to assess the expectations and results of people trained with a greater degree of accuracy. Global Learning by Cegos® assesses and analyses company and individual needs throughout the training process, tracks learning completed and accelerates the process if necessary, and ensures that no employees’ potential remains unrealised. In this way, investment returns can be tracked constantly. Global Learning by Cegos®’s flexibility also means that it can be uniquely tailored to the clients’ needs. And this doesn’t mean just putting a brand logo on the pre-existing training materials! It is about Cegos working with the client to create a suite of case studies and learning scenarios linked to the client’s and the learner’s own work realities and challenges. The same goes for the online modules, the assessment criteria, and the live training content – a first for a high quality, off-the-shelf, learning package. And for multinationals, Global Learning by Cegos® is designed and packaged for rapid deployment throughout the UK and across the world with consultants on hand who are hugely experienced in multicultural operations. Global Learning by Cegos® is available in seven different languages and can be rolled out quickly and simultaneously to multiple teams in multiple locations without the usual incremental costs of redeveloping, translating, and localising the learning activities. So what does Global Learning by Cegos® mean for you? Whether it is learning to develop management skills, manage change programmes, negotiate, sell, or enhance customer relationships, it means a personalised, dynamic and stimulating learner experience. It means a training programme designed and measured around a clear teaching objective and goal from both the learner and organisational standpoint. And it means generating the most from your training budgets and delivering clear and tangible returns. No company can offer the complete integrated blended solution Cegos has brought to the market. Yet, in order to achieve this, we need your help! Global Learning by Cegos® is most effective when there is a three-way charter in place between the learner, the sponsoring organisation, and the provider – a charter based on agreement on the learning outcome and the returns on investment. The end result will be a truly memorable learning experience that adds tangible value to both the individual and the organisation.
