Training For The Future
The podcast episode "Training For The Future" features Doug Donovan, CEO of Interplay Learning, discussing the shift from traditional classroom training to digital, electronic, and virtual reality methods preferred by most employees for effective future workforce training.
Training is critical, and the traditional classroom will soon be a thing of the past – of course there will still be some, but the majority of your employees want to be trained in a method they are comfortable with – electronic, digitally, and using virtual reality.
Find out more by listening to this episode of the Contractor Cents Podcast with Doug Donovan, CEO of Interplay Learning.
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