{"id":1466,"date":"2017-07-11T16:08:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T14:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.collaborator.biz\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2021-06-03T12:10:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T10:10:29","slug":"collaborator-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/blog\/collaborator-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborator: training as part of the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_1 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/blog\/collaborator-learning\/#About_Collaborator_platform_in_brief\" >About Collaborator platform in brief<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/blog\/collaborator-learning\/#On-the-job_training_%E2%80%94_the_training_which_really_works\" >On-the-job training \u2014 the training which really works<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/blog\/collaborator-learning\/#Communication_and_synergy\" >Communication and synergy<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/blog\/collaborator-learning\/#Knowledge_Base_is_the_basis_of_Collaborator_platform\" >Knowledge Base is the basis of Collaborator platform.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_27072017_111438_0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1567 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_27072017_111438_0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1023\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNowadays only few people will be surprised by online courses or online lectures &#8211; anyone can open browser and find lesson, book or educational film that is interesting for them. Self-development and self-education are gaining momentum, and therefore, distance-learning systems are constantly being improved and updated.<br \/>\nExecutives are interested in quality work of the company and do everything they can to achieve this goal. They organize online trainings for individual employees or the whole team. At the same time, employees should perceive training as part of their work \u2013 not a compulsion. The main task of the manager is to prepare high-quality materials and strategies for employee training.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\neTutorium webinar platform organized an International 3-day online conference for HR professionals and corporate universities entitled &#8220;Technologies in employee training: how to engage, motivate and develop staff online?&#8221;. Professional speakers shared their experience, showed ready-made tools for motivating and engaging employees in online learning process, suggested ways of applying the acquired knowledge at the workplace.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/\u0417\u043d\u0456\u043c\u043e\u043a-\u0435\u043a\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0443_2017-07-05_10-00-56.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1477\" src=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/\u0417\u043d\u0456\u043c\u043e\u043a-\u0435\u043a\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0443_2017-07-05_10-00-56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1141\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We presented Collaborator at the conference\u2019s &#8220;Solution fair&#8221; and showed the ways for company staff training to achieve new knowledge based on individual approach using <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Getting_Things_Done\">GTD<\/a> methodology at our platform. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"About_Collaborator_platform_in_brief\"><\/span>About Collaborator platform in brief<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Collaborator helps companies that want to train own employees and improve their professional level. We also work with professional communities, IT &#8220;schools&#8221; and other progressive educational institutions.<br \/>\nUser interface of the platform is aimed at simplifying the user&#8217;s work, allowing to operation on both a computer and mobile devices. Collaborator is ready to be integrated with any software system, even competitor\u2019s ones. This can be a corporate site, a personnel accounting system, a billing system, a data analysis system, etc.<br \/>\nOne of Collaborator principles is usage of any allowed content. This can be video, audio, text, and any other material that is supported by browsers. These resources are located in Knowledge Base.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1469\" src=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2250\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe second principle is the flexibility of learning and reporting processes.<br \/>\nYou are not restricted by limits of courses and training groups. You can assign the study of a separate document, training program with courses, tests, polls and other elements to an individual or to several groups of people at once or in turn.<br \/>\nFlexibility of reports and ease of operation with them is provided through fast filters by all necessary parameters. Administrator can receive, review and download the report at any time and from any device.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"On-the-job_training_%E2%80%94_the_training_which_really_works\"><\/span>On-the-job training \u2014 the training which really works<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>From our experience, we can distinguish three groups of people who influences success and effectiveness of training in any organization:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>executives, who understand the strategic goals of the company and determine the direction of development;<\/li>\n<li>coaches, teachers and mentors who create educational content and conduct classes;<\/li>\n<li>students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Training will give results when at least the first two groups &#8211; leaders and coaches &#8211; are interested in it. Then company\u2019s problem is only the motivation of the student-employees. And this can be solved by the correct approach to their training.<br \/>\nWe believe that training should be an integral part of the work process. It is impossible to divide the concepts of work and training, they must be a single whole. One of the ways to successful training is the regular submission of knowledge in the form of small portions of only up-to-date information, which is exactly useful for an \u00a0employee.<br \/>\nTo make learning interesting, you need to simplify the perception of information. We promote GTD principle &#8211; &#8220;getting things done&#8221;. There are no time-bound schedules at our portal, instead of them &#8211; a list of tasks, looking at which a person estimates own training. People decide the order of completing tasks &#8211; which of them are top-priority and which can be done tomorrow. Of course, each of the tasks can have terms for execution, priority, and other criteria if Administrator specifies them, but the student should try to order this list on by himself and complete all tasks<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1572\" src=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"811\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contents of the tasks can be different: books, videos, articles, documents, webinars, presentations, polls or their combinations in the form of courses: video + article + test, etc. The main thing is that they are small and compact. Therefore, each student has &#8220;My tasks&#8221; list. By emptying this list, the student moves along his individual training. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is \u201cEmpty inbox folder\u201d technique. It is described in details <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.collaborator.biz\/?p=1079&amp;lang=en\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those users who have access rights to creation and editing functions, for example, administrators, coaches and mentors, carry out development of the courses. Administrator selects task type (resource, course, test, etc.) and content itself, changes name if needed, specifies execution time, success threshold and assigning mode. Users can pick up tasks from Catalog by themselves (as a rule, these tasks are not limited in time).<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1573\" src=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"809\" height=\"458\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Communication_and_synergy\"><\/span>Communication and synergy<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>We should not forget about communication. Reminders about assigned tasks, feedback on training and discussion of tasks by employees are always important. This helps in proofing of training results, gaining new knowledge, identifying of internal experts. In fact, thanks to communication, the portal becomes a central source of knowledge, where employees can seek information and help.<br \/>\nCommunication at the portal maybe performed in various forms: commenting, chat, forum, notification and information, mailings and reminders, targeted communications.<br \/>\nAdministrator enables commenting when creating tasks &#8211; &#8220;Allow commenting&#8221; option. Typically, users post comments for indicating errors, reporting problems with completion, or asking questions when something is unclear. Users can change own comments within 5 minutes after posting. Notifications about new comments are sent via e-mail and Push-messages.<br \/>\nAdministrators may track new comments by &#8220;Moderation &#8211; Comments&#8221; tool and promptly respond to user requests.<br \/>\nThe next form of communication is chat. It is intended for short direct messages of instant communication. Messages in the chat are encrypted and are not moderated by Administrators. This increases trust of users to the system. There is also an option to change your message within five minutes and search in messages.<br \/>\nForum is an alternative to chat. Unlike the chat, messages at the forum are moderated. You may create an open or closed topic, invite new people to discussion, express attitude to messages.<br \/>\nVarious alerts from the system help in informing of employees. These are notifications about news, changes in Knowledge Base, announcement, events, meetings, etc. Notifications are sent automatically using Push messages, SMS or e-mail.<br \/>\nIt is good practice to extract useful data from communication and create new information materials on the topic of discussed issues. Therefore, Knowledge Base is filled in with fundamentally new, practical data that will be used by the company.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do not forget to admire the employees who shared their experience, good ideas and are not afraid to ask questions &#8211; it is very important for them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Knowledge_Base_is_the_basis_of_Collaborator_platform\"><\/span>Knowledge Base is the basis of Collaborator platform.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Knowledge Base helps people in personal growth and self-improvement. When Knowledge Base starts helping employees in their work and they begin filling it by themselves, then uptaking of information by employees can be considered as effective. Monitoring and results analysis helps in identification of information, which gives great benefit in training. Tools for this are part of our platform.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1574\" src=\"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"835\" height=\"422\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKnowledge Base of Collaborator automatically includes all portal\u2019s information sources: news, forum, wiki articles, and training resources. It supports searching by content, by category tree and by resource tags. Therefore, Collaborator users can find answers to their questions independently while working, even before contacting mentor, coach or supervisor.<br \/>\nIt is possible to upload different resources into the Base: page, HTML-site, files, video, text, links, and presentations. Collaborator automatically converts resources to the form that works correctly in all browsers, for example, PDF and PowerPoint presentations &#8211; in web presentations; MS Word documents &#8211; in web pages or wiki-articles; videos of any format &#8211; in MP4 and OGG.<br \/>\nKnowledge Base supports division of access rights to resources. Access rules are configured by user attributes: city, position, department, tag. As a result, user cannot find the resource, if he does not have access to it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collaborator portal has two sides. For users it is a platform for training of company employees where it is possible to communicate and find necessary information in Catalog. On the other hand, when people start using the system both for training and daily work \u2013 they eventually create Knowledge Base inside the system, which keeps connections between the elements and resources as well as helps to find important and needful materials. Combining these functions of Collaborator, the company provides knowledge sharing and effective work of employees. <\/span><br \/>\nOur presentation at <a href=\"https:\/\/etutorium.ru\/landing\/hr_conference\/\">International conference for HR-Specialists and corporate universities \u2013 \u201cTechnologies in employee training: how to engage, motivate and develop staff online\u201d. <\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/KrG694reakmW9p\" width=\"595\" height=\"485\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><strong> <a title=\"Collaborator - training as part of the job\" href=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/miroslavbotsula\/collaborator-training-as-part-of-the-job\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Collaborator &#8211; training as part of the job<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/miroslavbotsula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miroslav Botsula<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,20,24,14,40],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baza-znanyj","tag-kabynet-polzovatelya","tag-kommentaryy","tag-obuchenye-personala","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collaborator.biz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}