I'm looking around for some good management and leadership training courses delivered online, SCORM-compliant preferred. I've taken a look at ElementK and QuikKnowledge and havn't really been all that impressed...

QuikKnowledge seems to have good content, but thus far, none of the courses have much interaction and the text is too small to read...and I have 20/10 vision!

ElementK seems to have alot of talking and not too much on the screen. The visual learner will be hard-pressed to stay in focus with the training.

I plan to implement a blended learning approach for these trainings, but would really like to see some online content that engages the audience, from the content provided, to the visuals, to some interactive elements here and there...

Any suggestions or programs you have used that you've felt were outstanding? As I mentioned above, I would really like to find a SCORM-compliant offering so that it can easily tie back to our LMS.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

J Paul Long
Regional Training Director

Hi, you could try Crossknowledge (www.crossknowledge.com), they have some good management content.

Good luck

Steve

I just recently ran across some very innovative On Line Management Training, using a blended approach, including simulations. Certainly my research indicates high marks by users. email me at scase20@juno.com if you would like to have me give you contact information.. steve

If you're referring to asyncronous, I'm not sure why/how someone can learn management that way... how can that person receive meaningful feedback on any practice or application of the concepts? How can it be anything more than answering questions about some canned scenarios? Perhaps its fine as an introductory, informational thing, but honestly - is "e-learning" really an appropriate delivery mode for the competencies and skills necessary for a good manager? I understand you plan on blending the learning, but I hope you're really considering how helpful (or not) the "e-learning" piece will be.

I think, FF, that there is a terminology issue here. It seems that a lot of courses or "training" is referred to these days as "management training" when "general business training" would be more appropriate, IMHO. For instance, courses in process mapping, risk management and customer relationship management often fall into a "management" curriculum to distinguish them from a technical or practical skills curriculum, I suppose.

These topics can probably be taught well in a proper blended environment. The actual skills of day-to-day personnel management would be significantly more challenging to teach in such an environment, I think.