What is training resource management for partner education?
Whether you are training your distributors, dealers, agents, or resellers, partner education is at the core of your success. The more educated your partners and resellers are, the happier, more profitable, and more successful they’ll be with your products and services. With an effective channel partner training program, you’ll drive more business and better serve your partners and distributors.
Planning learning operations for partners in your network seems like a simple plan until it isn’t. Partner training programs may contain a fully functional LMS to deliver eLearning content however where most programs are lacking are on the back-office side of training management.
Amidst endless spreadsheets holding instructor schedules and training resources, partner training programs run the risk of going off the rails when you plan without the right management system in place.
What are the main concerns in a partner training program?
- Is instructor-led and virtual instructor-led training performing well based on scheduling?
- Are calendars and schedules in sync with instructors and learners
- Do I have enough resources to run this training program on schedule, under budget, and on time?
Automate and optimize your classroom and virtual training operations with a training management system that is designed with your partner education initiatives in mind: Conflict-free course scheduling and calendar management, resource and task management, instructor collaboration, sales cycle management, reporting, and more. With seamless integration for your LMS, website, and other business-critical technologies, our training management system allows you to streamline all of your daily partner training operations and activity in one powerful system. Spend less time on back-office activity, and gain more time for training activities such as helping your partners and distributors to better position, market, and sell your products and services, ultimately driving profit and growing your business.
The best-in-class Training Management System for partner education
How do you get your sales team, distributors, and partners all up to speed on your new product or service launch in the most efficient and timely way? Partner training software. You need the right tools and solutions to ensure the success of your partner education programs and turn your partners into true profit drivers. As a complement to your LMS, Training Orchestra’s award-winning Training Management System for partner education helps your business:
- Utilize your instructors and subject matter experts (SMEs) to the best of their ability
- Reduce scheduling errors by streamlining and automating course scheduling and resource use in one simplified system
- Gain more control over your resources by easily monitoring and forecasting resource and equipment needs in one place
- Better communicate with your partners and teams on all tasks for your extended enterprise training
- Give your partners more visibility into your training catalog and collaborate in real-time with a dedicated B2B partner portal
Training Management System features for your partner education activities
Centralize and integrate your entire training process and collaborate effortlessly with your partners and sales team on face-to-face and virtual training operations—all while managing numerous locations, languages, and currencies with ease. How? By employing these 8 essential training management system features for training your partners, distributors, and resellers:
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Partner training scheduling and resource management
Gain more control over your resources and avoid gaps in your training plan by scheduling instructors, equipment, rooms, and more with both high-level and granular views for efficient resource management.
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Intuitive course scheduling
Say goodbye to scheduling conflicts and errors with an easy drag-and-drop Training Scheduling System to manage your sessions, instructors, and resources all in one place.
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Automated back-office administration
Operational and repetitive administrative tasks are a thing of the past. Ease communication and collaborate on back-office tasks such as the production of documents and the sending of invitations in one shared system, so you can focus on what matters most in your training program.
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Instructor engagement portal
Use this external-facing Instructor Engagement Portal to detect and engage the most qualified instructors and subject matter experts (SMEs) for each training session.
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Sales and profitability monitoring
Oversee courses, track partner history, and synchronize with your existing CRM to better analyze your data and improve financial forecasting and performance.
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Real-time KPIs and unified business analytics
Better understand your partner training data by continuously monitoring your analytics and KPIs in a unified database.
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Partner success portal
Give your partners the ability to order and track their open or closed training sessions in a dedicated B2B partner portal, so you can gain back time, increase sales, and maintain a seamless buying experience for your partners, resellers, and distributors.
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Personalized reports
Automate your partner training reports by scheduling your own customized reporting data in an easy, drag-and-drop training reporting system.
For the full list of training management system features for partner training, download the
Complete Checklist of the Top 20 Training Management System Features
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