Benefits of our tutorials
Unlike other learning solutions available on the market, the VE e-tutorials offer significant benefits that quickly pay for themselves.
We want you to clearly understand the benefits and how they can immediately resolve concerns you have, especially when it comes to investing additional funds into another learning solution. Once again, don’t take our word for it read what our clients are saying.
Concern #1: “We send them to courses”
Training course are good and sometime necessary, but ask yourself how much do your participants retain through an instructor-led course once they get back to their desk and begin using the software tool?
In fact, retention of any type of learning gained solely through instructor-led courses, and even computer based courses, is no more than 5 to 15%. Think back to when you attend a course and were asked to apply what you learned days later; how much were you able to remember and apply?
Add to this the amount you spend on these instructor-led courses; thousands and tens of thousands of dollars.
So essentially, for a 100% investment you are getting back at best 15% of skills retention.
The Benefits:
We are a company that specializes in learning solutions. Making decisions to provide training is not one-time or one-type of solution.
The VE tutorials are powerful learning solutions. They can be used as a stand alone computer-based (CBT) learning tool but the real benefit is as an on-demand training solution.
Think of a VE tutorial as a real-time coach available immediately at the user’s fingertips from anywhere and at anytime.
Here is a real life example. You are seated at your desk and can’t recall how to set up letter in a Word document or attach a document in your Groupwise email. Rather than contacting your help desk or calling an IT person simply access the VE tutorial on the local Intranet, type into the search box your query and in an instant you have a brief learning tutorial showing, telling, and getting you to apply the new skill. Then you close the window and return to the task at hand.
Whether it you are using the VE tutorial as a stand alone tool or part of a broader blended learning strategy the benefits are immediate and immeasurable.
Concern #2: It costs too much.
As intelligent business people nothing ever costs too much if we can see the real benefit for the organization. The cost argument also applies to concern #3..
Many organizations often introduce a new software solutions without or with very little training and post-implementation support. So what does this cost your organization? Well, if you look at it from a productivity perspective then the time lost from users trying to learn it themselves or not using all of the software capabilities can cost your organization thousands of dollars a year in lost productivity and time; this does not include the user’s frustration and negativity toward the software over time. The second argument is found in concern #3.
The Benefits:
The VE e-tutorials can be as little as a few cents or dollars per user per year. If you don’t believe us then thake the Learning Source challenge and find out for yourself how small an investment per user per year to gain 100% coaching support, 7-days a week, 24 hours a day is for your organization.
An investment in the Virtual Expert Groupwise tutorial will also support and justify the amount spent on the training course the users attended – a perfect compliment.
Concern #3 – “Me or our IT staff, or help desk trains and supports the users”.
Let me ask you this, how much time in a day do you spend answering the simple “HOW DO I…” questions? They are the common questions that users constantly ask during a day and can be as simple as “how do I save my work?”. Let us provide you with a real-life example on how fast your costs can ramp up attending to these “How do I…” questions..
Let’s say you estimate that you spend 60 minutes during an 8-hour day running around answering these questions and assuming a $25/hour wage ($50,000/year salary over 50 weeks at 40 hours/week) .
We can safely say that on average you spends a total of 250 hours/year at $25/hour which totals $6250 per/year and based on a 250 day year. Multiply this figure by any other individuals that support these issues.
We can also safely assume, and you will agree, that you and your team’s time is better spent on more important concerns, right?.
A VE e-tutorial can easily pay for itself in one year or less. In this example, an unlimited user license for our Groupwise tutorial would pay for itself within 9 months.
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