When it rains, it pours, and when it comes to delivering training, it inevitably pours. At some point, you will have multiple business clients requesting identical or nuanced versions of your training curriculum at the same time.<\/p>\n
Increased demand is excellent from a business standpoint. But without foresight, it comes at a cost. It can be stressful to manage the workload of offering training to numerous clients all at once.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, you can provide online training to many different clients efficiently and concurrently without running down yourself and your staff. Let\u2019s go over three pro tips for delivering training to multiple clients at the same time. Follow these to meet all your clients\u2019 expectations and avoid employee burnout.<\/p>\n
If you aren\u2019t using a learning management system (LMS) yet, you need to start.<\/p>\n
A flexible<\/a>, training-focused LMS<\/a> is the Swiss Army knife of every successful e-learning company built to scale. Here\u2019s how an LMS can immediately help you handle multiple training clients at once.<\/p>\n Create Just-in-Time Custom Courses <\/strong><\/p>\n At its most rudimentary, an LMS allows you to reuse and repurpose existing content and training courses with minimal hassle. You can duplicate classes multiple times to offer the same training to different business-to-business (B2B) clients concurrently.<\/p>\n You will be able to quickly import and rearrange content chunks from different, existing training courses into a new, customized one based on a client\u2019s specific needs. Content chunks allow you to customize classes for individual client needs. Delivering training is easy when you can create new, custom training packages \u201cjust in time\u201d to help close a deal.<\/p>\n Use a SCORM-Compliant Platform<\/strong><\/p>\n Like anti-lock brakes, you don\u2019t need to understand precisely how SCORM works. You just need to have it.<\/p>\n Make sure you use an LMS that allows you to export your training materials using SCORM. It will enable you to deliver training in your clients\u2019 preferred LMS.<\/p>\n SCORM compliance also enables you to import e-learning materials created in third-party software, such as Adobe Captivate and Articulate 360. You can design engaging, interactive e-learning modules and use them across all your LMS-based courses!<\/p>\n Manage Multiple Courses for Multiple Clients All at Once <\/strong><\/p>\n The best LMS acts as a centralized content management platform. You should be able to offer multiple training sessions concurrently for different clients and client types. Your LMS must allow you to manage all your courses at once, with independent flexibility in each.<\/p>\n You should be able to not only manage business clients simultaneously but also offer business-to-consumer (B2C) sales. Find an LMS that integrates with e-commerce tools<\/a> like Shopify so you can sell training to individuals via branded landing pages and digital storefronts.<\/p>\n You may need to brand your training differently depending on whom your target market is. Here\u2019s how to do it efficiently.<\/p>\n Brand Your Training for B2C Sales<\/strong><\/p>\n You must standardize your online brand, including in training courses and on your website, to create a professional sales experience and exude an air of professionalism. Standardized and streamlined branding fosters a more positive user experience overall. Be consistent, and make sure you have a style and brand presence in training programs offered directly by you.<\/p>\n Allow Custom Branding by Your B2B Clients<\/strong><\/p>\n Branding capability requires more than selling your own business, however.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re delivering training to businesses, many of them will require that your e-learning solutions adhere to their brand style guides. The best training LMS can integrate this feature. Branding integration allows you to offer the same training to multiple companies concurrently, each with their unique corporate branding.<\/p>\n Brand beyond Learning Content<\/strong><\/p>\n Branding doesn\u2019t have to stop with online training content.<\/p>\n Some LMS enable you to create branded completion certificates<\/a> for clients and even provide a business representative administrative rights over the training itself. Branded certificates are a compelling upsell for many B2B customers.<\/p>\n Client-side administration allows client businesses the opportunity to feign the appearance that your training program is an in-house production.<\/p>\n Have Single Sign-On Access and Administration<\/strong><\/p>\n Choose an LMS that allows single sign-on<\/a> (SSO).<\/p>\n SSO allows your client\u2019s IT department to manage access to your training courses, controlling who on their staff has access. It also helps your clients automate training certification among their employees, syncing their customer relationship management or human resources software.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve come full circle, and we\u2019re back to your stellar content<\/a>. You need to be strategic when designing content if you want to deliver training to multiple clients with minimal modification. The following tips will save you massive amounts of time and energy when you need to customize content to a client\u2019s specific needs.<\/p>\n Design Your Content in Chunks<\/strong><\/p>\n The best online training content is always modular and short. You need to chunk<\/a> your content and design it to be interchangeable and reconfigurable. There are several benefits to this.<\/p>\n Chunk for New Training Course Design<\/strong><\/p>\n You can\u2019t cleanly break a mammoth Lego brick down into smaller pieces, but you can create a giant Lego piece out of many small bricks.<\/p>\n Chunked training materials are modular. Like using the same Lego pieces to build two different objects, you can reconfigure your materials to create new types of training. You likely cover the same or similar topics in multiple courses. Now you can use the same module in all of them. Save time by finding numerous areas of training overlap and designing once for all your offerings.<\/p>\n Chunk for Efficient Curriculum Updates<\/strong><\/p>\n Chunking<\/a> makes it incredibly easy to upgrade your training curriculums as needed. You\u2019ll never again have to redesign a long presentation, revise a white paper\u2019s worth of technical documentation, or reprogram a monstrous Adobe Captivate file.<\/p>\n You can simply identify where updates need to be made in short chunks and edit those. It allows for proportionate, concise updating, speeding up the process and saving your company money.<\/p>\n Suppose that you followed our tip above and used the same chunked content across different training programs. In that case, you can update all your courses\u2014including those being offered to various clients at the same time\u2014simply by making changes to a single module.<\/p>\n Chunking helps automate updates.<\/p>\n Finding a suitable LMS is crucial if you want to scale your e-learning business.<\/p>\n Your LMS solution needs to offer you flexibility in content organization, training administration, and the option to export content. It should also include customer branding for numerous different clients at the same time and have a built-in e-commerce solution to help you market and automate the sale of your training programs.<\/p>\n Finally, you need to build small to think big. Design your content so it can easily be duplicated and updated across your training portfolio. Think about ways to reconfigure modular training content to develop new training programs to upsell to current customers. Use smaller pieces to build substantial online training programs within a single centralized LMS.<\/p>\n Here at <\/span><\/i>Firmwater<\/span><\/i><\/a>, we don’t just sell an LMS for training providers. We partner with our clients, giving them the tools and insights they need to implement the best practices in e-learning course development, growth, and delivery. We care too much about our customers’ businesses to have them wade through forums and chatbots for help.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Ready to use an LMS that’s designed for the way YOU work, with a team dedicated to YOUR needs? <\/span><\/i>Book a no-obligation consultation directly with our team today<\/span><\/i><\/a>!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When it rains, it pours, and when it comes to delivering training, it inevitably pours. At some point, you will have multiple business clients requesting identical or nuanced versions of your training curriculum at the same time. 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Design Training to Be Branded<\/h2>\n
3. Design Reusable and Easily Updatable Learning Content<\/h2>\n
Delivering Training to Multiple Clients Is Easy with the Right Tool<\/h2>\n