Why Look to E-Learning for Business Skills Development?
In today's unforgiving business environment, companies sink or swim based on how widely and how well their workforces have mastered critical business skills. Training in business skills has emerged as a key driver of sustainable competitive advantage. The question for training departments is what type of business skills training solution can best help your organization succeed?
The Advantages of Online Business Skills Training
For supporting business skills training needs across an entire organization, online learning—conducted over the Internet or over an organization's internal intranet—offers significant advantages over classroom-based training:
- Online business skills instruction costs substantially less per student-hour than classroom training, while still delivering highly effective instruction.
- Because business skills training conducted online is self-paced and modular, it's much easier to incorporate into hectic work schedules than classroom instruction.
- By using an online (or "elearning") training solution, you can be sure that you're delivering consistent business skills content across your whole organization, even if it's geographically dispersed.
- E-learning based business skills development is environmentally friendly, since it requires no student or instructor travel, creates no paper waste, and accommodates telecommuting.
Skillsoft Has the Right Business Skills Solutions for You
Skillsoft is a leading provider of elearning products, services, and solutions. It offers solutions for all your business skills development needs:
- Skillsoft has the world's largest catalog of business skills courseware, spanning dozens of curricula such as accounting and finance, customer service, human resources, project management, and managerial leadership, as well as perennial areas of interest such as time management, e-mail etiquette, and dealing with difficult people. Skillsoft's award-winning courseware is self-paced, engaging, and highly interactive. As a testament to its quality, many colleges and universities grant course credit to learners who have completed Skillsoft courses.
- Skillsoft supplements its business skills courseware with a rich array of on-demand elearning resources including searchable full-text digital books from leading business publishers, skill simulations, job aids, and on-demand video presentations by CEOs and business thought-leaders.
- Skillsoft can deliver blended learning solutions for a wide range of specific business skills training solutions such as time management training, presentation skills training, and leadership skills training.
- Skillsoft is a trusted elearning provider with a proven track record. It provides online training resources to more than 3,000 organizations around the world, with over 10 million end users.
To learn more about Skillsoft's business skills training solutions, specific products such as project management courseware, or solutions for other online training needs such as IT certification preparation, please visit the Skillsoft home page now.



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