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Angles
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Assessment
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Autism Resources
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Camping
Christianity
Colours in Languages
Commas
Comparing and Ordering
Composition
Conjunctions and Connectives
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Cutting and Scissor Skills
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Draw a Cartoon
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Reading Instructions
Remembrance
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Spanish Introductions
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Symmetry and Reflection
The Stone Age
Volcanoes
Warm Up Ideas
Writing Discussion Texts
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Animals and Habitats
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Capacity
Celebrating Birthdays
Dance
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9 ideas for cost-effective corporate training / Skillbox Media
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For many companies, corporate educational events are a significant cost item. Let's talk about budget options.
Vkontakte Twitter Telegram Copy link nine0002 Anastasia Altyntseva Philologist and journalist with experience in recruitment agencies.
Writes about HR for HR specialists and everyone who works with personnel.
One of the best ways to save T&D team time and budget is to record trainings, webinars, conferences, and other educational events that take place in the company. And save records in a single knowledge base: on your corporate portal or YouTube, as links in Excel or Google spreadsheets. nine0003
The main thing is that this space should be accessible to all employees. When someone needs to get new information or refresh their knowledge, it will be enough to select a record and watch it. It also has its own knowledge base — material that can become the basis for creating new corporate courses.
“We try to always record the events we participate in, up to and including team meetings on Zoom. Subsequently, we create courses in which we use fragments of these videos.
If necessary, any employee can go to the corporate portal and go through them." nine0003
Irina Rodina , Head of T&D at the OKKO online cinema network
Surely among your employees there are those who have deep expert knowledge in their field and are ready to share it with colleagues. Instead of ordering the services of an expensive external trainer, invite your specialist to speak on a topic or record a course.
But one should not think that the organization of training by the forces of its own experts is completely devoid of costs. nine0037 Danil Parnikel , manager of personnel training and development at Semrush , advises to figure out whether it would be more profitable in your case to involve an internal expert instead of an external one in training, to evaluate three factors:
- The cost of an employee's time (if he breaks away from his main job) compared to the time of an external expert.
- The cost of an external expert's time to adapt his program to your task.
- Additional services (creation of manuals, post-training, post-training support for participants - answers to questions). nine0010
At the same time, in terms of quality and practical applicability, the training material from an employee may surpass the material of an external speaker.
“The experience and knowledge that our specialists have is often of a unique nature; you cannot get it from third-party experts. At the same time, we do not just take the experience of colleagues from the Huawei headquarters in China, but involve employees from different countries in compiling trainings - as a rule, high-level experts with certificates for educational activities. Such a cross-regional exchange of experience allows us to achieve a high level of training and reflect the peculiarities of working in local markets" nine0003
Elena Kaverina HR business partner of Huawei Enterprise in Russia
In addition, training with the help of internal experts has a number of other advantages.
If you have not found a person with the necessary competencies among your own, invite a specialist from another company. Many organizations now support the practice of exchanging internal experts. The only condition is that you must have an employee with knowledge and experience that is of interest to another company, or you can offer another service in exchange (for example, media partnership). It is worth involving your marketers and PR specialists to discuss collaboration ideas. nine0003
You can agree on this format of cooperation directly through T&D colleagues from other organizations. If you are an active member of the professional community - you attend specialized conferences, seminars, are members of specialized T&D groups on social networks - it will not be difficult to find the right expert and agree on his invitation.
In most companies, employees in some departments do not really know what their colleagues from other departments do, although their experience could be useful to them.
Organize events to share best practices and case studies. This format can be more effective than expensive training because employees learn about experiences that are directly related to their work. For example, in OKKO such meetings are held quarterly: nine0003
“At our internal Knowledge Marathon event, department heads and specialists speak on various topics like “How I built good relationships in my team” or “Remote worker life hacks”. Basically, of course, the performances are about soft skills. This is how we spread knowledge for all colleagues, and at the same time introduce them to each other, which is important in the era of remote work,” says Irina Rodina.
Even in our age of trainings and online courses, professional literature has not lost its importance - it is still a popular source of knowledge. And there are still people who prefer books to lectures. You can start an electronic corporate library, which each employee could replenish with their own files.
The main thing is to sort books and links to useful articles by topics and directions for easy search. If you are ready to spend a little, you can purchase a corporate subscription to online libraries - for example, MyBook or MIF. A good bonus would be the audio format of books - you can listen and learn something new on the way to work or during fitness. nine0003
Basic knowledge and skills can be found in free online courses. For example, sites such as Open Education offer free courses from universities. Paid sites, even large ones like Coursera, also have free courses from top university professors and well-known experts. Choose suitable topics for employees, keep track of the start dates for enrollment on them, and periodically check for new courses.
In addition, many universities and paid educational sites often hold free one-time events - webinars, workshops, round tables. They can be useful for both beginners and experienced professionals.
It is only important to subscribe to the news of the educational platform in social networks or to the newsletter by e-mail in order to follow the schedule. nine0003
You can ask department heads to collect lists of employees' favorite educational sites, bring them into a single database, and instruct someone to regularly monitor announcements in each area.
It is convenient for people to receive information through the channels they are used to. For example, if not everyone uses the corporate portal, then instant messengers are already an integral part of life. Why not make a Telegram channel for employees and post collections of useful training content to it? You can organize everything so that employees will partially fill this channel themselves - with materials from open sources. nine0003
“We have our own Telegram channel, where we publish useful collections with articles, studies, cases, videos, and so on.
Moreover, the employees themselves find interesting materials and send them to us “to the editorial office”. We check them and share them with others."
Irina Rodina , Head of T&D at the OKKO online cinema network
Professional conferences and forums with the participation of star representatives of the industry are certainly useful events for the development of employees. But participation in the best events is not cheap. Irina Rodina offers savings options: nine0003
- Purchase a ticket for one employee and then arrange an internal meeting to ask them to share information with colleagues.
- Send your expert to speak as a speaker at the event. In addition to the fact that he himself will get the opportunity to attend the conference for free, the organizers most often allow you to bring a colleague (also for free or at a discount).
Another good way is to support informational events that are interesting for you. If your company can influence the target audience of the conference organizers, then they will be happy to cooperate with you. As a bonus, you will get a couple of free tickets. nine0003
You can also make your online courses on a budget if you use free resources and create content on your own.
“If this does not affect the effectiveness of learning, I try to minimize economic costs and use free platforms. Among the platforms for educational programs, I can single out Google Classroom. There you can create curricula, conduct lessons, submit homework assignments, track your learning path, and much more. You can add presentations, videos, pictures, audio files, and so on to courses. A big plus is that Google Classroom integrates with other Google services, in particular mail and calendar.
Therefore, when I assign students the next lesson, it automatically falls into their schedule. nine0003
Alexey Pluzhnikov , Founder of Online Events Workshop, T&D marketer and business coach
In a word, there will always be available options - the main thing is that the quality of education does not suffer. What is definitely not worth saving when organizing training is time. For example, developing a full-fledged corporate training program is a multi-stage process, but if you skip a step for the sake of speed, then there is a high risk of wasting both money and time (training will not be useful). nine0003 Vkontakte Twitter Telegram Copy link nine0002 Corporate training
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5 interesting ideas for online and in-person learning
Learn how to make learning more fun, fair and reliable from five experienced teachers who have learned from their experience. These ISTELive speakers delve into topics like helping struggling students, creating a Genius Hour in the classroom, using games for discussion, and more. Watch the video below for helpful tips for your class
Google Tools for Students with Difficulties
Eric Kurts, a longtime technology integration specialist, provides expert guidance on tools within the Google ecosystem that can help students with learning disabilities and people with special needs. These include text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools, applications that improve readability and comprehension, and those that adjust behavior, focus attention, and ease navigation.
Install and try out each tool as Kurts demonstrates them in the video below. nine0003
One-to-One with Genius Hour
Nicholas Provenzano, aka The Nerd Teacher, finds a boring, formulaic curriculum a source of frustration for both teachers and students. He advocates a "Genius Hour" approach that puts learning in the hands of students, allowing them to choose what they want to learn and how they want to learn it. For example, students can build a carpentry project or customize a pair of shoes and use digital tools to show how they made it. Giving students self-interest increases engagement and builds the skills needed for lifelong learning. Watch the video below to get started. nine0003
Drawing as a thought process
Manuel Herrera understands that most people don't want to draw because they lack artistic ability. But Herrera offers a different perspective: if you can think, you can paint. Herrera, the school district's innovation coordinator, is a firm believer that drawing is a way to demonstrate thinking. Through exercises such as turning doodles into birds and assembling a set of shapes, Herrera shows how anyone can communicate ideas through drawing. Watch the video below for a fresh look at your artistic abilities. nine0003
Creative storytelling with Adobe Creative Cloud Express
From cave paintings and hieroglyphs to Facebook and Instagram, people have always wanted to share their stories. And in this digital age, tools have never been better.
Claudio Zavala Jr., a Texas school district digital designer, wants to show people how to use digital tools to tell their stories. Zavala will demonstrate how free apps like Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formerly Adobe Spark) for video and text and Adobe Premiere Rush for animation can bring stories to life. Watch the video below to easily start telling your story. nine0003
Collaborate with digital games to break through
Watch Desiree Alexander as she parodies the daily routine of boring online lectures and lessons, then describes the best way. Alexander, regional director of Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana, talks about the benefits of digital learning games where students solve puzzles and riddles together. Alexander touts the benefits: they can be used digitally or in person; they are free, student-focused, and flexible; and they associate content with cultural significance.
