From small scale start-ups to fully-fledged enterprises, all companies have training needs. Providing the right learning tools is crucial to enabling company growth, which explains why an increasing number of businesses are choosing to outsource their training.
Partner training software (sometimes referred to as a Learning Management System) is an eLearning platform that will help you train your external partners, including your franchise owners, resellers, distributors , agents, and installers. This platform allows you to plan, deliver, and track the training programmes that you develop.
The distribution sales model has existed since the inception of modern trade. Singer was tapping independent agents to sell and repair sewing machines as early as the 1800s. IBM’s now unshakeable foothold in the PC industry started with distribution through retailers.
On a racecourse, some lanes are shorter than others. Called an inside track, it’s a naturally advantageous position for racers to be in: shorter means closer to the finish line.
Product knowledge is a customer’s inside track towards user satisfaction. It gives them the tools to properly sell, install, test troubleshoot, and maintain products where others might take the longer route with self-taught information.
Smart lights have gone a long way from automatically switching on or off. Redwood’s intelligent lighting system uses a network of smart sensors that collect and analyse temperature, motion, and brightness data to deliver energy and cost-efficient, dynamic lighting.
In the early stages of training programme development, planning how you intend to support, maintain and manage it is the key to its success.
For this, there are generally two options: outsourcing to a specialist or keeping it under one roof in-house.
However, deciding how to move forward isn’t clear cut. Many factors can impact the decision.
We are not about to tell you to outsource to us. It’s about us helping you explore your options and make the right choice for your requirements.
Do you think you might be ready to work with Wahoo Learning? Perhaps you’ve identified your challenges and how training solves them. Maybe an online training programme is what you have needed for a while now, but you don’t have the budget or resources available to make it a success.
As a business, we work with you to gain a full understanding of your business and situation to ensure that both parties are ready to sign on the dotted line. There’s nothing worse than wasted time on both parts.
Developing and launching a training programme to help solve the challenges associated with managing a channel partner network is a major feat and a positive step towards business growth.
However, many businesses attempt to launch without futureproofing their programme.
So, before you start developing your programme or try to find a way to deliver your training, we want to discuss the common challenges that can occur before and after launch and use our experience to help you avoid these pitfalls.
How do you know if a channel partner training programme will give you the results you need? We understand that it’s sometimes difficult to understand exactly how a new system will offer the return on investment needed for your business to reach its goals.
This blog has been written to help you understand the intricacies of training programmes and how one technology-based company made it work for them.
Caterpillar’s historic comeback was nearly three decades ago, but the principles behind its success still hold true. Given proper support, your external sales network is the key to new markets, the upholder of your brand’s integrity, and your partners in securing loyalty. But in order to become all of these things, businesses need to provide adequate support and training.
Crutches have remained relatively unchanged for hundreds of years. The logic is simple: You use your hands and arms to balance and move. So when the iWalk 2.0 came onto the scene promising hands-free use, the brand expected users would have trouble visualising how it works.
Yet instead of directing the educational effort towards consumers, the company went a different way and focused on resellers. Partners were given comprehensive training on how to fit patients for the device, and how to teach them to walk in it.
External sales partners generally recognise the value training adds to a partnership. After all, the more adept they are at selling a product, especially if it’s a technical product, the better outcomes for everyone across the board, from the manufacturer to the end-user.
Are you looking at outsourcing your training and using managed learning services? There are so many solutions on the market that we thought it would be helpful for us to talk in-depth about managed learning services, what it encompasses and how using these services can benefit your organisation.
Of course, we know this may seem a little subjective, but we want to help you decide whether our services are the best fit for you.
More often than not, creating, maintaining and delivering successful training programmes comes with budgetary challenges. In our experience, the cost attached to producing valuable content is often overlooked or grossly underestimated.
But, many businesses that offer training don’t contemplate the value that high-quality training content holds to the learner. When training content is created, marketed and sold correctly, it’s possible to offset the cost of the programme.
Work is constantly evolving. Technology has allowed businesses to reach an unprecedented number of consumers across many different channels and regions. New methodologies for handling every facet of the business more effectively, from supply chain management to customer service, surface regularly.
