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CLASSROOM TRAINING DOES IT WORK FOR SOFTWARE
IMPLEMENTATION?
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Introduction

• Classroom training can be utilized for sales
  training or to develop other soft skills, however
  when it comes to software, classroom training has
  some serious disadvantages.
• Loss of Productivity
• Scheduling Difficulties
• Costs
• Poor retention

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1. Loss of Productivity

• The major disadvantage to classroom training is
  the huge disruptions to your business.
• If an employee is in a classroom training
  session, theyre unable to do their regular work.
  
• For organizations adopting Salesforce, every
  minute your sales team is in a classroom training
  session is a minute theyre not out selling.

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2.Scheduling Difficulties

• Scheduling classroom training sessions can be
  burdensome depending on the size and location of
  your workforce.
• If teams work in shifts or across several
  locations, youll have to schedule and pay for
  multiple training sessions.
• Also as more companies rely on remote workers,
  classroom training becomes less feasible.

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3.Costs

• Classroom training isnt cheap.
• In addition to hiring an instructor, classroom
  training costs could include travel, lodging and
  food.
• Switching to digital training methods can
  provide significant cost savings.

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Few facts

• IBM saved 579 million in 2 years by switching
  50 of their classroom trainings to a digital
  format.
• Oracles use of on-demand training saved more
  than 10 million.
• Microsoft was able to reduce training from 320
  per person to only 17.

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4.Poor retention

• Most people struggle to retain the information
  they learn in classroom settings.
• Most users will forget everything they learn
  unless they make an effort to actively review the
  training materials every day.
• Unfortunately, most users return to their desks
  after a training session and immediately get back
  to work. Before long, most of the information
  from the training is lost.

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Alternatives to Classroom Training for Software
Implementation

• Product and digital adoption platforms, like
  Apty, provide an alternative to ineffective
  classroom training sessions by providing
  real-time support and guidance directly in the
  application
• Apty's Guided?Workflows will walk users through
  each task step-by-step. This allows users to
  learn on the job and enables first day
  productivity for new users.
• This hands-on real-world approach is a more
  effective way to train.

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• Most people dont want to sit in a classroom and
  listen to someone. Rather than have them in a
  classroom, theyll learn as they do it. We
  actually want them being productive while they
  train

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