All Vado courses are self paced and learner focused and delivered in bite sized modules, so that learners have “just the right amount of information” when they want and need for effective learning.
Study after study shows that taking in information in small bite sized chunks leads to increased learner retention.
Vado Courses are Offered in Five Content Areas:
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Competency Development Toolkit |
Research shows that 70 to 80% of development happens on-the-job. The Competency Development Toolkit contains on-the-job development course leveraging the natural way leaders develop. The standard Competency Development Toolkit contains learning content for 20 of the most common competencies needed today.
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Onboarding Toolkit |
25 actions designed to onboard, socialise and build the relationship between the new employee, manager and team to increase performance and eliminate the common reasons for new employees to disengage and leave. Companies benefit with increased new hire engagement, shorter time to contribution and increased new hire retention. |
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Engagement and Retention Toolkit |
The standard Engagement and Retention Toolkit contains actions for the top 17 engagement and retention drivers with five actions for each survey item. Benefits for the client include detailed actions teams can take eliminating the number one reason teams don’t take action on survey results—they don’t know what to do. |
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Career Development Toolkit |
Actions for individual contributors and managers to help identify career options and create a development plan to accomplish future career goals and aspirations. Benefits for the client are employees taking the initiative to develop their career while managers provide guidance and support. |
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Project Management Toolkit |
The Vado Project Management Toolkit provides actions and learning for the most common project management competencies. The Toolkit includes actions to build the skills and capabilities all project managers need to manage and oversee successful projects. Benefits for the client are employees taking the initiative to develop their career while managers provide guidance and support. |
Why are Vado Courses Changing the Face of Learning?
According to recent research, up to 80% of development is scrap learning and is never applied on the job. Vado courses were developed to eliminate scrap learning:
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Each Course Contains...
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Mobile Optimization...
In today’s world of technology, learners desire development that can be delivered via their mobile device. Vado’s courses meet this need. With content optimized for the mobile learner, Vado provides flexibility to learners to determine when, where and how they want to develop and build their skills. All course videos are under two minutes making the videos easy to watch on any handheld device, and HD quality on all videos gives the highest level of visual display.
SDMS V Learning Management Systems and Vado Courses
SDMS are able to offer these courses as Content for upload into your own e-Learning system or as Courses hosted on our own e-Learning system – eFront. Vados courses will also be offered via the new SDMS Learning Portal on a pay as you learn basis to be launched in the early New Year. Vado’s learning courses are designed to help organisations take action to develop competencies, increase engagement and quickly onboard and socialise new employees. Together with Vado, we are able to offer Mapping as a Service on a complimentary basis where we can map Vado courses to an organisation’s own learning objectives. Don’t have your own LMS? SDMS are able to offer eFront e-Learning as a learning management system which is perfectly suited to holding Vado Courses. With a few clicks of a button, the SCORM compliant courses can be imported into eFront to produce visually attractive course content that’s simple and easy to use. |
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Project Management: A Vado Course Example...
Each Vado Course Contains::
- A Short Instructional Video
- A Detailed Step by Step Implementation Guide
- A Downloadable Job Aid
- A Self-evaluation
Project Management: An Example: The Skills...
Vado provides actions for the most common project management competencies. The Project Management Toolkit contains actions to build the skills and capabilities all project managers need to manage and oversee successful projects. Each competency contains five development actions. Vado can customise any toolkit to meet additional competencies based on partner or client requests.
- Communication
- Customer Focus
- Decision Making
- Delegating
- Developing Others
- Leadership
- Leading Meetings
- Negotiating
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Performance Measurement
- Perspective
- Problem Solving
- Project Planning
- Risk Management
- Teambuilding
Project Management: The Implementation Guide...
All Courses are provided with an Implementation Guide to help you put the information learnt into action. The Implementation Guide breaks the actions down into a step-by-step guide and tells you:
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Project Management: The Job Aid...
Most Courses come with a downloadable Job Aid Guide which is essentially a checklist of items to implement the training on-the-job.
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Project Management: The Evaluation Tool...
All Courses come with an Evaluation Tool where Students can give a rating out of 5 stars for each Vado video course providing that your Learning Management System supports this feature.
Further Information...
For Further information on Vado Courses or eFront e-Learning, please contact Sales and Business Development on +44 (0) 1952 200911 or email: sales@sdmsltd.com.
