Employee training and development with virtual training methods

Employee training and development with virtual training methods

Training and development are a crucial factor for the better development of the employees in any type of an organization (Xie, et al., 2021). Along with this, training and development has found new avenues in development. The idea of virtual employees has gained popularity as the virtual society and remote working have grown (Norris, et al., 2019). The major cause of this has been identified as the COVID 19 pandemic problem, which has led to limitations in the use of human movement. Additionally, firms struggled with personnel management, which is why using virtual employees has become a part of day-to-day operations (Vigersky, et al., 2021).

A program called employee training assists employees in acquiring specialized information or abilities to enhance performance in their existing positions. In contrast to an immediate work position, employee development is more comprehensive and places a greater emphasis on employee development and future performance.

The evaluation of employee performance and the growth of their talents and skills depend greatly on training and development initiatives (Shernoff, et al., 2020). This is a crucial reality that needs to be recognized. The use of greater monitoring in the required performances is crucial given the current state of virtual labor, which has been elevated to a higher degree.

Figure 1 : Efficacy of virtual training and development. Source : People | It's better together 

There are several ways used in virtual training and development applications, which are carried out in remote or created settings (Hoedt, et al., 2017). It is crucial to have better approaches that meet training demands in order to manage the success of training needs with clear and improved results (Bennett, 2022).

The figure in below gives some of the methods that can be used in the understanding on virtual training and applying them as per the need is a significant application. Management should understand when to use these methods in making better influence (Chanana, 2021).

Figure 2 : Virtual Training Method. Souce : (Kotobee, 2022)

Advantages and disadvantages of the virtual training

There are advantages and disadvantages of the virtual training. Understanding both these can make significant outcomes in making better outcomes. following gives the advantages and disadvantages of the virtual training of the employees (Joshi, et al., 2021).

 

Advantages	Disadvantages
Courses offered online can provide specific educational pathways that are created to offer workers the skill development they have the greatest interest in and are likely to interact in workplace	There is lesser face to face connections among the employees and trainers
Customization of the specific needs and the development goals as per each employee is another application	Poor quality levels in training can be seen here and this is resulting poor quality outcomes
Allowing easy connections with the members even far away physically	There can be technological limitations in the work
Getting real-time feedbacks for the employee development	Monitoring the training process is another application and this is difficult in online training processes
Ongoing accesses to the employee learning facilities	There is a lesser communication quality in the virtual training process

 

Both positives and negatives should be identified in the process and it is highly needed to consider the outcomes related with these processes to make the proper training outcomes.

Conclusion 

Employee training and development is a very critical process toward the organization growth. Especially the virtual concept came with the new technology revolution and it it a massive hit compare to face to face discussion. Vitual process is veru convenience, cost effective and most important is that it is very convenience to gainer. Although it has the advantages and disadvantages the process is in practice all the organizations and are mostly appreciated process too.

References

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Hoedt, S., Claeys, A., Van Landeghem, H. & Cottyn, J., (2017). The evaluation of an elementary virtual training system for manual assembly, s.l.: International Journal of Production Research, 55(24), pp.7496-7508.

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Shernoff, E. S. et al., (2020). Evaluating the usability and instructional design quality of Interactive Virtual Training for Teachers (IVT-T), s.l.: Educational Technology Research and Development, 68(6), pp.3235-3262.

Vigersky, R. A. et al., (2021). The effectiveness of virtual training on the MiniMed™ 670G system in people with type 1 diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic, s.l.: Diabetes technology & therapeutics, 23(2), pp.104-108.

Xie, B. et al., (2021). A review on virtual reality skill training applications. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Volume 2, p. 645153.

By S. Satheesh