BGI Announces BayGroupVLT™: Bringing the Classroom to You (Cost Effectively)
(San Francisco, CA USA) BayGroup International has announced the launch of: BayGroupVLT™. BayGroupVLT™ (for Virtual Live Training) allows BGI clients to deliver highly interactive, engaging training to participant desktops using Web 2.0 technology, in a highly cost-effective manner.
According to Gregg Crawford, President and CEO of BayGroup International, "In today's challenging economic climate, it's harder and harder to make the time, or justify the expense, of live classroom training. Fortunately, today's Web 2.0 technology allows you to deploy high-quality instruction and skill building online, to remote locations, in a highly cost-effective way. That's what Virtual Live Training-VLT-is all about."
BayGroupVLT™ is a powerful platform that allows companies to overcome geographic, cost, and delivery constraints of traditional classroom training by providing live instruction over the internet. It is a robust Web 2.0-based training delivery vehicle that allows you to offer BayGroup International programs on a cost-effective basis to decentralized training populations.
Participants in BayGroupVLT™ programs (such as it's Situational Sales Negotiation VLT™) receive live instruction at their desks in two- to four-hour modules, delivered by experts at BayGroup International. Sessions feature:
Engaging, video-based instruction. Use of robust web tools such as live negotiation simulations, online breakout sessions, participant polling and chat, and webcam-supported group discussions and skill practices. Access to other BayGroup International Web 2.0 tools such as BGIwebcoach™ and BGIonDEMAND™ during and after training. Participant testing/assessment. Turnkey administration of participant registration, evaluation, and follow up.
To learn more about BayGroupVLT™ visit http://www.baygroup.com/index.php/global-solutions/web-2-0-technology/BayGroupVLT or call BayGroup International at 415-464-4400.
About BayGroup International
BayGroup International is a global performance improvement firm that helps corporate leaders reach critical business goals quickly, profitably, and with high impact. The firm helps its clients close the gap between strategy and desired results by embedding a powerful, management-driven discipline for building Pivotal Agreements - with customers, with suppliers, and between employees-that make or break business success. Since its founding in 1980, Baygroup International has built a select client list of major global corporations, focusing on the technology, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, transportation, consumer products, insurance, and financial services industries. Gregg Crawford, Baygroup International's President and CEO, recently published The Last Link: Closing the Gap That is Sabotaging Your Business, which appeared on the best-seller lists of the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today.
Contacts: Paul Hennessey (paul@baygroup.com).
March 19, 2009
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