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24 June 20261 min read

How can essential soft skills be trained effectively for employees who are facing a continuously high workload and time constraints?  “Sorry, I’m too busy, there is no time left in my diary for training!” Does this resonate and sound familiar? In more and more companies across different industries employees need to be constantly available, on the job and even on-call ready. The high workload and performance pressure does not allow much off-the-job time. Therefore lots of companies have started to  significantly squeeze the time budget that is allocated to employees’ training and continuous education. 

Key takeaways

  • How can essential soft skills be trained effectively for employees who are facing a continuously high workload and time constraints?
  • “Sorry, I’m too busy, there is no time left in my diary for training!
  • ” Does this resonate and sound familiar?

How can essential soft skills be trained effectively for employees who are facing a continuously high workload and time constraints? 

“Sorry, I’m too busy, there is no time left in my diary for training!” Does this resonate and sound familiar? In more and more companies across different industries employees need to be constantly available, on the job and even on-call ready. The high workload and performance pressure does not allow much off-the-job time. Therefore lots of companies have started to  significantly squeeze the time budget that is allocated to employees’ training and continuous education. Today’s professionals are probably much busier than other generation before, while continuous learning and personal development has become even more paramount to succeed in our highly competitive and fast changing world.  

 

In many companies, a key question is: How to balance the challenge of having the employees to constantly be available on the job and at the same time addressing the undisputable need for training to prepare employees for the future requirements to stay on top? 

 

Traditional learning concepts with multi-day classroom sessions have become a critical and time consuming issue and most e-learning offerings are boring and show disappointing learning impact. 

 

Don’t train harder, train smarter  

This requires a learning concept with  

  • high flexibility to learn individually  
  • inspiring and motivating online exercising 
  • short and highly efficient bootcamps 
  • customized and state-of-the-art learning content 

 

The solutionSmart Hybrid Learning  

  • Full attendance despite high workload and short notice on-call duties 
  • no compromises on training quality and impact 
  • maximum freedom and flexibility to learn independent of time, location and other people 
  • engaged and motivated employees 

 

What we offer: 

a Smart Hybrid Learning Solution for leadership and sales trainings that combines autonomous immersive knowledge acquisition with our VIRTRACON™ VR/AI-based app and short, intense senior trainer led bootcamps online or face-to-face.  

 

If you like to learn more about our Smart Hybrid Learning Solutions, please connect with us via email info@s-iba.com.  

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