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Marketing & Branding Leader

As we mentioned last week, this year marks BlueVolt’s 10-year anniversary in the elearning business. And we’re excited!

To reflect on how far we’ve come over the past decade (and for a glimpse at what’s in store), we sat down with our founder Don Spear, whose passion for elearning has helped us deliver more than 1 million online courses to almost a quarter of a million users.

Marketing & Branding Leader

A Decade of Online Training

Did you know that BlueVolt was one of the first companies to offer online training for tradesmen? In fact, this year marks our 10 year anniversary in the elearning landscape!

When we got our start back in 2002, we spent hundreds of hours with electricians while on the job – watching them work, talking to them and understanding what made them happy in their jobs and what their frustrations were.  What we found was that proper training was critical, especially in keeping up-to-date with the thousands of products introduced in the industry each year, but the right resources simply weren’t available. Yet…

Product Manager

An online Learning Management System easily helps increase the consistency of your message for learners, but did you know that it can also help increase the consistency of the message from your classroom instructors?

One of our customers, Wilson Construction, found that different instructors were teaching the same in-person courses with slight variations. This had nothing to do with the quality of the instructors, but instead the natural differences in teaching styles. However, because the courses were all safety courses, it was crucial that learners all received the exact same information in order to be prepared in the workplace and on the jobsite.

Kelly Meeker
Community Manager, OpenSesame
Guest blogger

One of the biggest challenges learning & development managers face is creating, finding, selecting and sharing training content that meets their organization’s unique needs. If you’re creating courses, it’s a challenge to identify the critical content and communicate it effectively. If you’ve decided to buy courses, it is difficult to find the content you need and hard to understand the complicated purchasing models.

National Accounts Manager

It’s important to know the value and return on investment of business decisions. With training, it can feel a little scary to move from tried and true in-person methods to cyberspace. Thankfully, we have a few tools to make the leap a less risky.

BlueVolt’s ROI Calculator estimates the impact the BlueVolt LMS will have on your sales and profits, based on the size of your extended sales force, within the first year of implementing it.

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