In today's digital age, our workplace has fundamentally changed. We use dozens of digital\u00a0tools and this presents new challenges. It's forcing HR and Training managers to rethink the whole employee training methodology.<\/p>\n
The way we work has been changing and the way we train our employees must change too.<\/p>\n
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Unfortunately, enterprise training is still rooted in traditional methods of training to truly understand the challenges facing this industry.<\/p>\n
The current training methods have their roots in the industrial revolution.\u00a0 Factories needed a way\u00a0to train factory workers easily and cheaply. Classroom learning became the training method of choice for these factory workers. Simple instructions and learning worked! But then machines became more complex. Employees started to struggle to remember and apply the lessons they learned in the classroom.<\/p>\n
Employers finally realized traditional training wasn't as efficient as it might appear so they began providing employees with self-study materials. Great!\u00a0 But they still couldn't afford to completely remove the teacher from the equation.\u00a0 Someone had to prepare the materials and deal with the processes.<\/p>\n
Then with the birth of machine based learning in 1954, it enabled students to learn at their own pace, test themselves and receive instant feedback.<\/p>\n
Computers started becoming common in the workplace so the natural next step for employee training was<\/p>\n