Podcasting as a training tool

If you are charged with the noble mis­sion of train­ing peo­ple in the orga­ni­za­tion, pod­cast­ing can be worth con­sid­er­ing as an appro­pri­ate tool in the sit­u­a­tions where the infor­ma­tion is con­stantly updated. It can help you to:

• Deliver the same infor­ma­tion to all sub­scribers (eg. employ­ees, cus­tomers, stu­dents) at the same time.
• Rein­force and expand what peo­ple learned in sem­i­nars, work­shops, self-study and online courses. Lis­ten­ing to the sum­maries of the key points can be an effec­tive way to review the mate­r­ial and pre­pare for a test.
• Pro­vide sup­ple­ment to the train­ing (bonus mate­r­ial not cov­ered in a class­room or the train­ing program)
• Pro­vide the infor­ma­tion to peo­ple who can­not attend a train­ing ses­sion (lec­ture mate­r­ial, key points, audio of the presentation)
• Replace content-only por­tions of train­ing pro­grams (eg. lec­tures) that are pri­mar­ily used to deliver the infor­ma­tion and frees the time for activ­i­ties based on inter­ac­tion, prac­tice, and feedback.