What NOT to Put into Online Training Courses

It’s unavoidable, you need to train your employees. This can be time consuming, and even sometimes ineffective because you may not be able to gather everyone to take the training all at once, so you’re forced to do it multiple times. It may seem intimidating to convert to online training for your business, but it’s actually pretty simple! There are many things you can include in your training course to make it exceptional, but what should you always avoid? Here’s what you will never see included in our online training courses.

Bad Information

This seems a bit obvious, right? Unfortunately, there are a lot of trainings out today with information that is wrong or outdated. Sometimes it’s done on purpose to annoy and deceive people, other times it’s an accident. But you always want to put good, up-to-date information into online training. You don’t want your training to grow a reputation of inconsistent, incorrect, and out-of-date. You, and your courses, will lose reliability – and no one will want to take the courses you provide.

Professionals and subject experts are credible, and the information they teach is credible – which is why we partner with industry professionals across the country to bring learners the best learning experience possible. You don’t want to misinform people (hopefully), and good information is a great place to start when creating an online training course.

Walls of Text

Have you ever read a book that you wanted to finish relatively quickly, only to get to a chapter that seems never-ending? That’s what it feels like when a learner is forced to look at walls of text during a training course. Walls of text will not keep learners interested. Their eyes will glaze over, and information will not be retained as well.

You can break up the text in a few ways. Images not only add a bit of color to the screen, but they can (at times) provide additional information to the material being taught! You can also be more mindful of white space and how important it really is.

Walls of text make it harder for the learner to focus – and it takes longer to get through the training! Longer training courses will lead to boredom and frustration – both of which will lead employees to not pay attention and daydream. Sure, text-heavy slides will happen from time to time, but if they are anything more than infrequent, they will ruin online training courses.

Words You Think Make You Sound Smart

No one like a know-it-all. If your training consists of superfluous words and phraseology, it will not be lucrative (see what I mean?). These kinds of words are unnecessary and annoying. If they are included, those courses won’t be successful – and not just because the course comes across as a smart-aleck – because your course is to train, not intimidate. If learners can’t understand what the training is trying to teach, then why bother taking the training at all?

Zero Effort

What’s the point in doing something half-heartedly? You’re only going to have to go back and fix your errors, so you should always be proactive and put 100% of your effort into your work. A lack of effort will waste not only your time, but the learners’ time as well. If you put effort into online training courses, it will be reflected, and learners will appreciate it.

Training is necessary, but it doesn’t have to be bad. If you provide good, educational training, then your employees will prosper – and come back when they need more – because you have proven that their online training is reliable, effective, and – most importantly – doable.