Can blended learning extend training capacity?
If you are sending employees on or delivering a traditional 15-20-day leadership and management certificate, it would be difficult for most companies to release the time or indeed have the necessary budget to put more than 50 people through this course during a year. However, using a blended approach, the same course could be delivered in maybe six, seven or eight days which is incredibly helpful in organisations with shrinking or frozen training budgets. But it isn’t just about increasing capacity and maximising resources: you are offering employees a more flexible and practical way of learning; you are potentially changing the form of the “taught” elements, utilising the real skills of practitioners; and you are giving L&D practitioners the opportunity to develop their roles and move with the times. Most importantly, you are turning learning events into processes and this is the real mantra here.
