Dan Jensen is one of the most sought-after compensation plan specialists in the direct selling industry. Having worked with hundreds of successful MLM, Party Plan, and direct selling companies over the last 30 years, his breadth of experience provides immense value to direct sales companies needing a better compensation plan strategy. Having worked with Dan to develop a compensation plan for a start-up company, I highly recommend his services and can assure you he will deliver a plan that works for your company.

Visit Dan’s website at:
www.danjensen-consulting.com
or contact at 360-852-8300.
 

3-D Training Discovery – This 1st phase of the program begins with consultations with each client to determine their training needs, status of their current training program and what it will take to begin production. Each client will be unique based on the information and training tools they have developed. Our role will be to review these materials, develop a concise statement of work to minimize changes and more accurately project expectations and project proposal. Results Oriented Innovation will provide a questionnaire for each client to complete to assist with the customization of their program and to help the client understand the benefits available through the creation of their online university. The information gathered will help to develop our recommendations for their online university with a signed agreement on the statement of work and proposal.

Development
– Moving into the 2nd phase will require working with a key client contact throughout the development phase. Beginning with an outline of the courses and training modules in each course this map will assist in the development of scripts, audio and video recordings, PowerPoint key learning factors, visualizations and timing factors by our Media Communications Coordinators. Adobe Connect is a secure, flexible web communication system that enables IT professionals to support enterprise web communication solutions for training, marketing, enterprise web conferencing and online collaboration.

Adobe Connect web communications system includes the following:

  • Adobe Connect Training – provides everything professional trainers need to manage, deploy and track highly engaging online training

  • Adobe Connect Enterprise Server – integrates real-time and on-demand communications and provides user administration, tracking, reporting and content management ( AICC and SCORM compliant enabling integration with existing LMS systems)

  • Adobe Connect Events – manages user registration, qualification, notification, automatic e-mail reminders and tracking for large online seminars and presentations

  • Adobe Presenter – enables PowerPoint authoring of narrated, self-paced e-learning courses and on-demand presentations

  • Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (optional) – delivers real-time meetings and seminars.

  • " Adobe Captivate is a tool designed to enable the creation of an Adobe Flash simulation and demonstration with point-an-click ease. By adding text, captions, narration and e-learning interaction Adobe Captivate is a complementary technology and its content can be managed by Adobe Connect Enterprise Service and included in Adobe Connect Training courses and curricula or leveraged inside Adobe Presenter presentations. This tool is ideal for creating a "how to use our online university" introduction. To introduce new training, Adobe® Captivate® 3 software helps to rapidly create, develop, and deploy multimedia presentations using informal learning methods like podcasts, blogs, websites, and screencasts. Using industry-leading, built-in audio and video software options, you can create Adobe Flash® Player compatible interactive simulations, software demonstrations, and scenario-based training content that you can post as a podcast recording or screencast or on your blog or website ideal for the "learn & burn" weekly trainings that target field leaders engaging methods for growing their business.
Deployment - The 3rd phase connects the program with the client and Adobe's Connect product. The head of our Operations Department will be instrumental in coordinating the connectivity based on the clients' choice between hosting at their location or through Connect. Our goal is to help make this portion of the program transition through a step-by-step system process allowing for critical testing periods prior to the full launch to their field.

Utilizing the highly customizable and extensible support of Adobe Connect for branding, directory services integration, system extensibility, bidirectional data integration, developers will be able to publish APIs to integrate web communication capabilities with the application network including integration with portals, reporting applications, CRM systems, content management systems and other corporate systems.

Through this management system clients will be able to implement testing components to reinforce key training factors and set in place a pass/fail system that will allow them to track their progress and for recognition purposes by corporate encouraging continued learning by their field sales. Once the program is connected and launched successfully Results Oriented Innovation will offer continued support through Video Plus for updates and the development of new training modules.

Existing/Non Existing Training
There are opportunities for two categories of direct selling clients:
  • Those who have existing training programs in print, audio and/or video

  • Those who are start up companies who do not have an established training

Existing Training
With an existing training program the discovery period will utilize current training programs and transferring the information into the online university training format making changes or modifications where necessary. The process will be enhanced even further if scripts have already been created for audio and video training. The ability to finalize the proposal will follow the outline of their current program and the transition to the online university. The 8 step process includes the following:
    1. Create Outline of all Courses and Training Modules for each Course
    2. Develop scripts for each training
    3. Develop key training factors (bullets) for each training
    4. Determine Visuals for key training factors
    5. Determine Audio & Video recording (if applicable)
    6. Develop Quiz Questions/Answers and Reinforcements
    7. Create the graphic design elements
    8. Final Review and Sign-off with Client
After each step, the client is engaged in a review and sign-off before moving forward in the development phase to minimize cost and time overruns.

Non-Existing Training
New start-up direct selling companies or those without a formalized existing training program will pose a different challenge. Our recommendation to minimize costs is to develop a template of trainings standard to the industry that can be “customize” with minimal changes. For example a “getting started” training would include the 10 steps to take in your first 72 hours to launch your direct selling business. Further discussion around the “ideal” templates will be developed to offset the development costs offering the ability for these clients to offer the online university experience and benefits to their field sales.
 
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