“The rate of development of skilled labor to do the task is way behind the growth of demand,” said Winton Wilcox, president of ComTrain LLC, a Wisconsin-based company that monitors tower safety and trains climbers. “There isn’t 10 to 12 years to learn the business anymore. You’re lucky to find two men on a crew that have more than five years experience.”.
By adding multimedia elements to your message, you greatly increase the likelihood of the user absorbing more of what it is you are trying to say. Whether your production is an information based kiosk explaining the benefits of your product to shoppers in a shopping mall, or a training and education program to bring your employees up to speed on new company procedures, the addition of audio, video and graphics adds greatly to your message.
In an effort to further emphasize the importance of employee health and safety conditions in its manufacturing facilities throughout the country, Ford Motor Company and Automotive Components Holdings, LLC (ACH), have renewed a partnership with the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Survey Results from Expertus/TrainingOutsourcing.com Study, June 2007
More survey respondents say their companies rely on internally developed software or spreadsheets or manually compiled reports for learning metrics than on LMS generated reports.