By: Christina Ravaglia

Trainers and doc writers are really product managers, where their product is information and their user is the training audience.

In this blog series, we’re drawing on the expertise of Skilljar’s very own Customer Success team. They’ve helped countless teams launch successful customer training programs, and have some great insights to share. Stay tuned for new Q&As each month!

“What traits should you look for when hiring a customer trainer?”

I’ll be the first to admit: I’m a fair-weather fan. I’ve gone to quite a few baseball games, and will cheer for my favorite team (but only when they’re winning). Unfortunately, this same concept may apply to your customers, and how they interact with your brand.

If someone is looking to buy your software, it shouldn’t matter whether they work with you, or a member of your partner program. The customer experience should be the same. Unfortunately, this is not always the case.

Enter partner training.

In this edition of our Training Tips series, we asked Doug McDaniel from Engagio to share his insights and tips about training customers!

Here at Skilljar, we spend a lot of time working with companies who are onboarding customers. Given our experience in this area, we wanted to share some essential principles for great customer onboarding.

In the SlideShare below, we’ll touch on what we like to call the 5 Ms: 

In this blog series, we’re drawing on the expertise of Skilljar’s very own Customer Success team. They’ve helped countless teams launch successful customer training programs, and have some great insights to share. Stay tuned for new Q&As each month!

First up: “What do customer training teams overlook when planning a launch?”

By: Joe Healy & Ezzy Schesvold

The Karmak eLearning team faced a mammoth project. We were in the process of revamping all 300
individual pieces of coursework in our learning management system, and frankly, we were struggling.

I’m fortunate that I often find myself at industry conferences. They give me a chance to step back from my day to day to engage in learning, interesting conversations, and a new understanding of how Skilljar helps our audience, and sometimes, they inspire. Learning Solutions Conference got me excited about our industry, the future, and the role we, as training teams, play in it.

By: Kaliym A. Islam, Ph.D. 

Research on customer education suggests that calculating its business impact is a difficult task. This consensus exists for many reasons, including the fact that the activity is generally not delivered by a single department and there aren't norms around where in the organization the responsibility for educating customers exists. Perhaps the most common challenge facing the individuals responsible for educating customers, however, is the belief that the most common technique used to evaluate all training programs (the Kirkpatrick’s four-level model) is lacking.