| How Organizations Create Pleasant
Work Environments
Orientation and interpersonal skills training
are at the core of many organizations' training curriculums
and apply to nearly everyone in an organization at one time
or another. This training focuses on such universal topics
as code of conduct, sexual harassment, active listening, bullying,
and respect in the workplace.
"Employee Orientation and Interpersonal
Skills: Descriptions and Excerpts of Online Courses from the
2006 Brandon Hall Awards" provides 21 case studies
and online excerpts of orientation and interpersonal skills
courses submitted to the 2006 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning
Awards. Designed for anyone involved in creating training
— subject matter experts, instructional designers, authors,
graphic designers, and training and project managers —
this report aims to answer the following questions:
- What do great online courses
look like? Access online video recordings of 21
courses.
- What tools do others use to
create online courses? Find out what content development
applications leading developers use to create their high-impact
courses.
- What staff, budget, and time
frame do professional developers allocate to creating great
online courses? Plan your budget and staff accordingly
by seeing how professional custom content providers manage
a course development project.
- What can I learn from these sample
courses that I can apply to my own courses? Implement
the best practices of professional developers to improve
the training you provide.
- How do the courses my organization
creates stack up against others? Stop creating
courses in a vacuum. Assess how your courses compare to
those of leading developers.
- How do others evaluate courseware?
Read candid assessments of these courses by Brandon
Hall Excellence in Learning Awards judges to see what they
liked or disliked.
- To what companies do industry
leaders turn to create their training? If you're
considering outsourcing a course development project, this
report provides a glimpse into the styles of the best
courseware creators.
This report illustrates how leading firms
such as The American Heart Association, Health Partners, EMMIS
Communications, Honda, McDonalds, Amgen, Microsoft, and Bank
of America train their employees.
Employee Orientation and Interpersonal
Skills: Descriptions and Excerpts of Online Courses from the
2006 Brandon Hall Awards is designed to give you a look
inside the tools used and processes followed by professional
development teams to design smarter and more innovative e-learning
courses. It’s a great way to benchmark your own learning
initiative against the practices of the best development firms.
This report is also available through
a subscription to the Brandon
Hall Research Library.
Reports highlighting Excellence in Learning Awards entries:
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