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Lots of companies in China and Hong Kong are starting to take advantage of the benefits that online training (e-learning) offers their staff. This is true for large companies (like state-owned enterprises) as well as small and medium-sized businesses, and it is also true for all different industries.

Let’s review the main benefits to your business of moving your training online.

1) Cut costs. E-learning is a scalable way to deliver information to your organization, and the costs are low and easy to predict. Since there are no instructors or travel associated with e-learning, your direct costs will come down significantly. Also important is that e-learning allows users to move at their own pace, meaning that indirect costs (i.e. time off work for training) go down too.

2) Improve quality. One of the problems with traditional classroom training is that the quality of the course is only as good as the trainer and it can vary over time. With online training, you can create a high-quality course that you like (i.e. has proper instructional design, well-defined learning outcomes and is backed up by knowledgeable subject-matter experts), develop it, and then roll it out across the company. The quality is the same for all participants.

3) Reach everyone. If you have staff spread in multiple locations or in different countries, you can use e-learning to make sure that everyone has access to training. You are no longer limited by remote offices that might have missed training opportunities in the past. For the most part, bandwidth limitations have been overcome and even offices in very remote locations can get connected to your e-learning environment.

4) Consistent communication. This is most important for compliance training (for example, with the Basic Standard for Enterprise Internal Control or C-SOX), where centralized procedures and policies mean that the whole company has to follow a single standard. E-learning can distribute the same message or process to the entire company with a single, consistent approach.

5) Visibility. Thanks to the tracking ability of most e-learning platforms, you will be able to see the performance and history of each of your staff. This means you can quickly evaluate ROI from your training expenditure. You can also quickly see which programs are useful or in-demand, which ones are redundant, or which ones have poor results and need to change.

Remember, not all of your training has to shift to online delivery. There are lots of situations when classroom training is superior to online or where you get benefits from bringing groups of people together.

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