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Sales and Customer Service Skills: Descriptions and Excerpts of Online Courses from the 2006 Brandon Hall Awards

 

What Makes a Great Online Sales or Customer Service Course?

What do expert course developers do to make their courses so engaging? What tools do they use to create online courses? What staff, budget, and time frame do professional developers allocate to creating great online courses?

"Sales and Customer Service Skills: Descriptions and Excerpts of Online Courses from the 2006 Brandon Hall Awards" provides 35 case studies and 29 online excerpts of sales and customer service 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 30 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 didn't like.
  • 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 expert courseware development firms that supply industry leaders such as Lenovo, Palm, T-Mobile, Amgen, Microsoft, Circuit City, and Ford.

"Sales and Customer Service Skills: Descriptions and Excerpts of Online Courses from the 2006 Brandon Hall Awards" is designed to give you a look inside the tools professional development teams use and the processes they follow to develop smarter and more innovate e-learning courses. It’s a great way to benchmark your own courses against the work of the best content developers.

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Sales and Customer Service Skills: Descriptions and Excerpts of Online Courses from the 2006 Brandon Hall Awards

By the staff of Brandon Hall Research

Published September 2006 • Download file size: 6 MB • 126 pages • $395


Features
  • Case studies of 35 courses
  • Screen captures
  • Online video recordings of 29 courses
  • Case studies of high-profile companies and the vendors that create their content
  • Candid comments from judges

 

 
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