Hybrid training has become a feasible solution for companies ever since the Covid-19 pandemic became a reality. The employees shifted to the work-from-home mode and didn’t want to rejoin offices. The Hybrid Training concept means providing training to all the employees, including online means for those working from home and offline to those working from the office.
Hybrid training is useful because it addresses all the employees at the same time.
But is holding a hybrid training event always essential? The situations in which such an event must be held are the following:
- Crucial event
Sometimes, an important situation has arisen in the office due to which all the employees need to be informed about. In that case, hybrid training becomes crucial. Apart from that, when some employees work from home, they are not aware of the latest product developments. In that case, remote employees must be brought online to get an introduction to a new product. Sometimes, a special speaker is also called to the office to discuss his industry experience. All the employees need to be gathered together for a hybrid training scenario. Such a scenario ensures that the remote workers also can interact with such speakers, which are only called on exclusive occasions to the office.
- Anyone should not feel left out
When meetings are held in the hybrid training model, it’s advantageous for the team because remote workers get to see their office colleagues; this helps in culture building because they learn about other people’s ways of working. Such hybrid training sessions ensure that remote workers who often feel isolated because they are not attending offices don’t feel that way anymore. Since important discussions occur before them in the office, they feel included and don’t suffer from FOMO, leading them to quit.
They might feel that the office workers are being given undue attention because they are included in decision-making. But hybrid training events ensure that such things don’t happen.
- Product launch
Sometimes such training is the only option for companies when introducing new products. And all the employees have to be contacted at once to get information about the product. When remote employees are excluded from such training sessions, it can affect the product launch, which is detrimental for the company, given the competition.
For example, sometimes, the sales professionals working remotely and from the office have to be given sales training simultaneously; otherwise, the sales process gets delayed.
In hybrid training, the companies have the advantage that someone present from the office has a good attention span. But what about those attending the meeting online, who could be checking their phone every time. They might have turned their camera off and not listened to anything in the meeting.
Training material is the crux of such a training event
Hence, the most important concern in a hybrid training environment is the training material, which has to be designed properly. The remote participants must feel that the content is as per their needs. If the company does not design the environment in such a way, the whole idea of hybrid training can backfire. The hybrid training must be intentional and can’t be organic because it might not deliver the required results.
The hybrid training presentation must be recorded pragmatically because the remote workers must find the webinar interesting. There must also be PDFs shown in the videos and slide decks that can excite the participants. There can also be ebooks that can be given to the participants so that they have gone through them before attending the class.
Encourage employees to attend such training
The organizations have to make sure that the certifications are also awarded because they give motivation to the participants.
But for that, a tech-based platform has to be used so that there is no extra work for the HR team to keep track of participants who have to be issued certificates. If such software is not given to the HRs, their workload can be increased immensely because of the maintenance of spreadsheets for recording participants.
Organizations have to consider their work culture because presenteeism is not the only matter of importance now. The companies have to see whether the employees are meeting the goals regardless of how much overtime they put in. If an employee cannot deliver the required output, his efforts can’t be rewarded.
Hence this is how hybrid training must be conducted.