E-Learning with Call of the Wild’s Online Development Academy

Call of the Wild’s web enabled online development academy is our exciting new facility designed to both enhance our face to face development services and also to act as an invaluable learning resource which our clients can use throughout their managerial career.

It provides practical online management education that is geared towards business managers. It is most successful as a blended learning approach i.e. linked to a company’s values, behaviours, competency frameworks, performance reviews and/or off-line training initiatives.

This has been stimulated by feedback from our clients. A number of recurring issues kept arising:

1. Firstly time away from the office and its associated costs. Most training and development programmes will require time away from the office. Therefore the more this can be eliminated the better.
2. You’re all busy people with heavy workloads but with the desire to further your vocational knowledge to enable improved performance and progression. E-learning is an excellent means of achieving this difficult balance.
3. Retention of learning. Course material can be posted on the site together with pre and most importantly post-course material.
4. CPD – For continued learning after the programme and throughout your career.

Cost Effective Learning with a Return on Investment

1. A blended solution i.e. able to link with a client’s own learning initiatives, for example, off-line training courses, computer-based training, policies & procedures, Learning Management Systems etc.
2. The ability to track and measure usage, as well as increases in knowledge/behaviour/performance
3. Quick and easy to implement
4. A demonstrable return on investment

Examples of typical applications include:

• Generic management education/leadership programmes
• Sales academies
• Transformational/change management initiatives
• Cultural change programmes
• Performance management support
• Graduate programmes
• Policies & procedures
• Accreditation
• Membership Organisations
• Management training and/or sales training organisations

Generic Management Education/Leadership Programmes

Senior management may need a management education or leadership programme to drive a specific corporate strategy. For example, improve overall business performance, customer service, organisational effectiveness, employee productivity etc.

Learning & Development professionals may need to:-

• Improve management competency without the time burden of classroom training
• Increase the effectiveness of the learning experience
• Find a solution suited to employees in disparate locations
• Sustain learning after classroom training to maximise time spent away from the day job
• Avoid sheep-dip training i.e. cater for individual needs and knowledge levels
• Reduce training costs
• Improve soft skills in specified areas e.g. time management skills

Sales Academies

An online academy can be tailored to the needs of a specific functional area, for example, sales. Sales directors/managers may need to:-

• Ensure consistent processes and behaviour amongst their sales teams
• Train sales people to improve performance by matching their behaviour to clients values
• Train sales people how to be good managers
• Equip sales people with broader business skills

It is important to align your sales staff with your customers needs . Achieve this through our Customer Relationship Behaviour Tool.

Transformational/Change Management Initiatives

Companies sometimes need to standardise a company culture fragmented by mergers & acquisitions or high staff turnover due to attrition or high growth. They may need to:

• teach managers what good behaviour looks like in their company
• translate competencies into behaviours
• ensure consistent (changed) behaviours

Performance Management Support

Another driver for an online academy is performance management. HR professionals may need to:

• Put in place a programme to support leaders or high potential individuals
• Find a mechanism for rewarding good (& shaming bad) learning behaviours and management styles
• Give recognition to high-performers/learners
• Build development action plans
• Link education/learning to a 360 degree feedback process
• Receive guidance on good performance management practice and a tool for ensuring consistency
• Respond immediately to learning short-falls
• Focus actions on areas in most need of development

Graduate programmes

Graduates often need to be taught self-awareness and be educated in areas that they don’t learn at university such as leading through change, building a team, coaching and mentoring, communications, motivation, personal profiling etc. An online training and development resource can be supplemented by quarterly workshops to discuss learning experiences, and access to external one-to-one coaching/mentoring.

A common challenge for companies with graduate trainee programmes is how to make graduates feel special in order to retain them long enough to recoup the training investment. Our blended solutions dedicated to graduates can assist with retention rates.

Policies & procedures

Our academy can be used to support HR professionals in larger organisations and managing directors in smaller organisations who need to:-

• Provide an induction mechanism for new employees
• Communicate and provide easy access to the employee handbook
• Support diversity
• Communicate discrimination, sexual harassment, health & safety, risk management policies etc and provide evidence that staff has read and understood the policies
• Put an appraisal process in place

Accreditation

Our academies can help you to achieve Investors in People accreditation or to adhere to new standards.

Find out how you can take advantage of this powerful learning tool. Contact us today to obtain your login details.

Creating a Space and a Place for Personal and Organisational Development

Multi-award winning Call of the Wild prepare and deliver research based leadership, team and personal development programmes to a range of public and private sector companies across the UK. Our goal is to improve the performance of individuals and organisations. Our expertise lies in creating a space and place where individuals can experience deep and lasting learning which is transferable into the workplace.

Accredited and Bespoke ILM Leadership and  Management Training Programmes

Call of the Wild offer personal and professional development programmes. Our objective is to create powerful learning and development experiences to bridge the gap between potential and high performance for your individuals,  teams and organisations. We seek to unlock that latent potential to allow people to achieve and sustain high performance. Our purpose is to create positive behavioural change within the workplace, which delivers lasting results. A real return on investment. We concentrate on behaviours to facilitate change.

How do we do this? With less chalk and talk and by adopting a blended approach using mediums such as experiential and online learning.

We specialise in areas such as management training, developing leadership, developing teams, coaching, developing talent such as apprentices and graduates.

Focusing on Desired Outcomes

Do you want to obtain maximum productivity from your staff? Would you like to develop top performing leaders and build high performing teams? We at Call of the Wild know that strong teams and leaders will make the difference between success and failure. View our clients testimonials to see why.

Improve Your Bottom Line

There’s less chalk and talk from us with a focus on your bottom line. We seek to make a difference in the workplace by measuring outcomes and delivering a return on investment.

Just imagine a workplace where:-

• Leaders and teams share a common vision
• Open and honest communication is positivley encouraged
• Individuals and teams work within a supportive environment
• Individuals are encouraged to explore and develop their own capabilities
• Individuals are aware of the success factors that create high performing teams

Delivering Maximum Value

We place considerable emphasis on our Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR). Similalry we are always looking at ways in which greater value can be obtained from our clients invetsment in learning and development programmes. One of our aims is to align programmes with the CSR strategies of clients to attain benefits for the communities within which they operate.

Contact us as you maybe eligible for a grant covering up to 50% of the cost of your training and development

Image courtesy of © 2011 Dan Santillo, www.dansantillo.com