As Covid-19 continues to ravage the globe, managers are facing an involuntary move into digital training–a shotgun marriage, as it were. Although it is a somewhat inauspicious beginning, it could still turn into a love story. Outsourced, on-demand training now has better, and more user-friendly platforms. And the learning content has moved from clumsy to engaging.
You Can’t Learn to Drive in a Seminar
Employee training is not the same thing as pursuing a college degree. Employees are more like new automobile drivers:
- Some things are pretty intuitive and easy to master, such as how to turn the car on or operate the windshield wipers.
- Other things can be learned through reading, such as what the street signs mean and not to drink and drive.
- While other things must be learned through practice, such as how hard to press the brake, safe speeds for different turns, and where the passenger edge of the car is relative to the car parked on that side.
You Can Fall in Love at the Car Park
Whether you are a new hire or the hiring manager, teams can have an even better chance at bonding when you are able to leverage outsourced on-demand training, especially for prospect research. Adding a new team member is always additional work. You need to focus on integrating and building rapport.
You can let the outsourced prospect research trainer free your time by helping to build strong skills through independent study and practice.
This works especially well when the training provides opportunities to bridge generalized learning to the specific ways you do things at your organization.
Choose outsourced prospect research training that offers you clear advantages, such as:
- Comprehensive coverage of the subject material. You shouldn’t have to spend a lot of time tracking down and curating the training on research topics. You have to do enough cobbling things together already when you are onboarding someone new.
- Clear outline of the material being covered. When you know exactly what’s in the curriculum, you can incorporate prospect research training appropriately with other internal learning, such as human resources, database software, and specific research subscriptions.
- Student Practice and feedback. Outsourced training can get your new hire on the ground running when there is homework with instructor feedback. This frees up your time for one-on-one or group discussion about applying new skills at your organization.
And Live Happily Ever After
There are many different kinds of training available to the fundraising researcher, but there is nothing quite like the hybrid, on-demand training available at the Prospect Research Institute.
You will find a wide range of support, such as:
- Comprehensive online courses on subjects like prospect profiles, all with a detailed syllabus and capstone projects to demonstrate competency.
- Homework options that include using your organization’s prospects and data, as well as suggestions for discussing with team members and reflecting.
- Instructor feedback, monthly Master Classes and virtual office hours, as well as a Slack community, accommodate different learning needs and preferences.
- Downloadable materials for team discussion and future reference, because no-one should ever stop learning.
Onboarding a new hire doesn’t have to be painful. High quality remote learning can let you enjoy the new employee “honeymoon” period without the tension of trying to find even more time in your schedule to teach prospect research skills.
Wish you could sneak “behind the scenes” and see for yourself how membership at the Prospect Research Institute could help your new hire? You can!
I do regularly scheduled tours via Zoom where you can ask questions and get answers. Check out the schedule and register: https://member.prospectresearchinstitute.org/pages/events
Can’t wait that long? Email me or watch a video: https://member.prospectresearchinstitute.org/pages/get-started