Training remote employees can be difficult for both the trainer and trainee, and it takes time and patience to get it right. First, your training materials need to be clear and easy to access. If your new employee has to waste time trying to find or decipher the information, it’s going to put them way behind in their learning. Try to keep as much of the material as possible in one place.
In addition to making the material easy to access, training should be an interactive experience. Online (and offline) distractions are everywhere when it comes to remote employees, so your training has to compete with those distractions. Many employees who are used to working remotely won’t have a problem ignoring the other options, but you can still help them out by making the training courses as engaging as possible.
As video conferencing becomes the default way to engage others, the number of organizations that want a free video call to last more than 40 minutes is starting to rise.
RingCentral, as part of an effort to woo end users away from Zoom, is now offering a RingCentral Glip Pro service that allows a free video conferencing call involving as many as 100 people to last as long as 24 hours. Naturally, most of those calls won’t last that long, but for organizations looking to run meetings that might last several hours that’s going to be an attractive option.
Organizations will, for example, be able to easily reconvene a meeting during the day, says William Moxley, chief product officer for RingCentral. “Meetings can persist to the next day,” he adds.