The need for rapid talent development has emerged as one of the major issues facing organizations in virtually all sectors of the economy. E-learning offers interesting opportunities for meeting this challenge. But before workplace learning and performance professionals adopt this widely used technology, there are some fundamental principles that need to be understood.
There is a simple framework for strategically thinking about new ways to support your talent development initiatives, and this framework is positioned around the acronym AIM (alignment, interactivity, and motivation), which directly targets blended e-learning programs to help you deliver the results you want at the speed you want.
New win-win learning solutions that meet organizational and employee needs are essential. If there has ever been a time when technology is needed, this is it. However, technology has let us down this time.
The early promise of e-learning to revolutionize training and development has, unfortunately, not materialized as quickly as we had hoped.
We have the technologies. We just need to employ them using the AIM model to create a solid platform upon which to advance learning goals and meet the demands for rapid talent development.