Training & Knowledge Suport: The Most Cost Effective Skills Development Process today
This centre allows ALL staff members to receive On The Job Mentorship for Continuous Improvement from the best sources in the world, As it Happens, When it Happens 24/7, Most Cost Effectively
It is intended to supplement conventional training and in some cases substitute it. It is always to inspire continuous improvement in performance, especially at a time when budgets are tight and competition is tough.
This is a living example of the type of Enterprise 2.0 based knowledge management systems being deployed internationally at reputable firms such as IBM, Colgate, BP, Oracle, McDonalds, Novelle, Novartis, Coke, Red Bull, Citi Bank etc.
It ensures that the collective thinking in your organization is always up to date. And that business improvements are in line with global best-practice and a robust competitive advantage delivered by a coordinated organization.
Benefits to your Corporate Training
· This learning centre brings all your corporate training initiatives, business skills soft skills and technical, together in one place 24/7. It makes skills development much more accessible, more inclusive, cost effective and sustainable.
· It creates a more valuable learning experience with a greater range of inputs not just from the trainer but from all contributors, including peers, subject matter experts, managers and company mentors. In this way the collective is the source of knowledge, not just one individual.
· It supports continuous improvement and innovation. The online dialogue, as well as offline discussions it stimulates, forms part of the learning process. This greater sharing of knowledge brings a deeper understanding of learning principles and makes people think then act.
· It inspires people to adjust their performance electively. Active engagement in producing and learning something with peers is a powerful motivation and educational driving force. It goes a long way to establishing high-performance teams and business agility.
· Knowledge gets shared and skills are compounded. People are the best conduits of knowledge. Studies have shown that workers spend a third of their time looking for information and are five times more likely to turn to a co-worker rather than an explicit source of information (book, manual, database).
· It raises the collective IQ of the entire organization for proactive business improvement. It goes beyond training to a learning collaboration that leads to a better understanding of new business techniques and application.
· It cultivates a Community of Practice for Strategic Advantage with immense value to your organization. It supports a collaborative dialogue around best practice and new improved ways of doing things. This generates a process of active learning, knowledge building and applied innovation
· This centre of dynamic learning impacts compoundedly on the return on investment of all your training initiatives past and present. It creates a critical mass for training and development from a small investment.
Available Packages
There are three levels offered:
1. Open Site - Free,
2. Subscriber Site - Starter package
3. Subscriber Site - Corporate Knowledge Management & Internal CommunicationCentre
To get you started the fee subscription ranges from R2 500 pm upwards, reaches all your employees simultaneously and can be claimed against your skills levy. All options include an orientation training session with client designated mentors.
Content Management
· Accessible to all staff,
· Interactive,
· Always Up-To-Date,
· Video, Audio, Multimedia Text
· Reinforced by Audio and Video CD and DVD
· International subject matter expert supported
· Inbound and out bound RSS feeds
The system is quite simple to use and reaches the entire organisaion, simultaneously and globally.
Online content is in text, slide, video, multimedia and audio format. Content is interactive and collaborative and supported by a strategically and technically skilled Community Manager from the BrightIdeasFactory. Anyone may comment and a number of designated people may submit content.
This online system is additionally reinforced by Audio CD’s so to also reach employees without internet access for use on mobile phones and automotive CD. This also makes drive time a productive learning experience.
Automatic updates are in the form of inbound RSS feeds seen on the right hand side of the website (Harvard, Sales Guru, CRM etc). This site also has outbound RSS feeds that update changes from this site automatically as it happens when it happens on your mobile phone and web browser.
Regular emails with links to monthly highlights are also sent to subscribers to further garner interest and participation.
Content can be password secured.
Your Online Community Manager - Leon Rossouw Hons.B(B&A). MBA. (USB). AMP (
Research on enterprise 2.0 based systems point to the role of your Online Community Manager. As the manager of content and dialogue it being the most critical success factor in the success of a system such as this
This system is supported by Leon Rossouw a strategically, creatively, and technically skilled online community manager. As a pioneer of innovation he ensures that content remains relevant and that the site stays interesting and compelling.
Leon is an MBA graduate with a classical grounding in marketing and advertising schooled by American and British Multinationals, such as – Kimberly Clarke, Reckitt and Colman, and Ogilvy & Mather Advertising. Over many years as a client he has worked in and with blue chip advertising agencies such as: Hunt Lascaris (TBWA), SBBW, Network, Gavin Reddy (TBWA),and Bates. In his advertising career he has worked on accounts such as Tiger Oats, South African Airways, Rand Water, Eskom, Boland Bank, Procter & Gamble. SAAB, Opel, Audi, VW, BMW.
He offers a well-honed ability in strategic thinking and creative work. He has attended art school, film school and business school. He has been a lecturer, a practitioner, a mentor and a Director of corporates in SA and the
His combination of practical experience, strategy, creativity and leadership is a major factor in his reputation for producing ideas that work and initiatives that have stood the test of time.
He believes that business is not just about doing the right things; it is mostly about doing inspiring things.
He is a great believer in the inspiration that the international market place provides.
He is also convinced that ultimately it is our imagination that makes us different and what makes us a force, in the marketplace, where it really counts. This theme cuts across all the initiatives offered by the Brightideaworks and the BrightIdeasFactory.
He has demonstrated the ability to develop numerous business initiatives where no precedent or marketing culture existed. He continuous to do so everyday.
Typical uses of this type of application in the global business community
· Knowledge Management & Training
· Employee Communication Centre impacting on staff motivation and employee relations
· To drive productivity and efficiency
· Reputation management
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