Green Training

Green training is an essential part of any organization's effort to "go green" by reducing the negative environmental impacts of operations and processes. Businesses that go green do right by the environment and also reap benefits for themselves. Reduction in resource waste and costs, improved public relations, elevated employee morale, and increased attractiveness to environmentally-conscious investors are just some of the rewards that may come to companies that successfully implement green campaigns. Green training is necessary to educate a company's workforce about the objectives, benefits, and operational changes associated with such a campaign.

E-Training is Green Training

Ideally a green training program should embody the values that it's trying to teach—that is, a green training program should be implemented in an environmentally friendly manner. In this respect, e-training—the delivery of training resources over the Internet or over an internal intranet—has obvious advantages over traditional classroom-based training. An online employee training course eliminates the student and instructor travel that may be associated with classroom training, and online green training also eliminates the sometimes large quantities of paper that accompany classroom instruction. Online green training also is supportive of telecommuting—widely recognized as one of the "greenest" personnel policies that companies can adopt.

SkillSoft's Green Training Resources

SkillSoft is a leading provider of e-learning content, employee performance aids, and training management systems. SkillSoft offers a wide range of green training resources, including:

• Online self-paced courseware for Environmental Safety & Health (ES&H) compliance. SkillSoft's comprehensive course catalog features more than 120 of such green training classes, addressing an array of compliance subjects including pollution control and hazardous waste management. SkillSoft also offers a number of courses that guide organizations on how to implement a green strategy. More than 80 of these green training courses are available in localized versions, in languages including Spanish and Chinese Mandarin.
• Online full-text books, book summaries, articles, and analyst reports assessing the benefits of and obstacles to going green, as well as detailed guidance for implementing successful green campaigns in a variety of industry sectors.
• On-demand video talks from leading CEOs who have successfully led green campaigns for their companies.

SkillSoft—for Green Training You Can Trust

SkillSoft has provided green training and other on demand training resources to more than 3,000 corporate, government, and educational organizations, with over 10 million users. In industry surveys, our consistent, high-quality content and first-rate customer service have earned us the number-one rating in customer satisfaction for the past three years in a row.

To learn more about SkillSoft's green training resources, as well as other IT and business training programs such as online Six Sigma training, diversity training, and web design training, please visit the SkillSoft home page now.