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Training Tips for Ships

Tip #38

Building Your Own

E-Learning Modules ave you ever considered buy-in and a culture of pride, safety and experience, they are often more engag- building your own course professionalism. And the great news, ing and more effective. library? Why not? It is sur- which is a surprise to many, is that cre- Moreover, the creation of this content

H prisingly simple, surpris- ating your own training content need will, itself, engage your crew in advanc- ingly inexpensive (possibly even cost- not be expensive. ing safety. It is your internal experts saving), and the advantages in terms of As a provider of learning technologies, who know your vessels, understand relevance, effectiveness and profession- we have many customers who have cho- your systems, and who have developed alism are enormous. sen to build their own learning content. your protocols that will be at the fore-

There are good reasons to consider In each case, they have created a high- front of de? ning the training require- building your own content. First, your quality library of content for their spe- ments and the training materials. It will own content is always going to address ci? c use which directly addresses their be your deckhands, mates and captains your speci? c training needs directly. training needs. If you have read the pre- who will help vet the material for rel-

Off-the-shelf content will instead be ceding few Training Tips for Ships arti- evance, correctness and clarity. And much more generic by necessity, rel- cles, you saw that simple media such as when the images are taken and the vid- evant in places, and not applicable in text, images, audio and video are highly eos recorded, it will be your crew who’s others. Your own content will also be appropriate for most training needs, are smiling faces are seen demonstrating much more familiar to your employees simple to put together, and will produce tasks or safety procedures in the very – with familiar systems, familiar envi- excellent results if done with a small work locations where the trainees will ronments, and familiar faces. This will degree of planning and care. While they ultimately operate. Those new stars will improve engagement. Additionally, the may lack a “fancy” factor, they need not become ambassadors for the training act of building your own content will lack effectiveness nor the ability to en- program. All of this will result in more engage employees and small working gage trainees. In fact, because they will respect for training, and a higher degree groups in the “business” of training, present directly relevant information of professionalism. We have seen this creating a higher degree of training that is speci? c to the crew’s context and over and over.

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