15 Free Personalized Training Programs
We’ve created a list of personalized training programs to make training effective so employees can get the most out of them. These training courses were built with the learner in mind to cater to their specific needs and various learning styles.
1. Evacuation Plan
If you’re looking for a course to use and deploy to your teams for a workplace evacuation plan, EdApp’s got you covered. This corporate training aims to educate employees about evacuation conditions, such as fires, natural disasters, and civil disturbances. It familiarizes workers with the evacuation routes and the importance of having clear and well-lit signages. It also establishes the importance of employees' different roles and responsibilities to ensure smooth evacuation. Aside from teaching learners about proper evacuation, this course is personalized for every company as it serves as a template that you can add to your workplace’s floor plans and exit routes.
Evacuation Plan is just one of the many free personalized programs that you can tailor to your organization’s needs. EdApp’s rapid authoring tool promises ease of use, regardless of whether you have any instructional design background or none at all. Should you wish to run this training in a live format, you can also take advantage of EdApp's webinar tools for an efficient training delivery.
Cost: Free
Scope: Evacuation conditions, routes & floor plans, employee evacuation roles
Created By EdApp
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2. Lockdown Survival Guide
Lockdowns have been a norm in this pandemic to stave off the spread of COVID-19. As these were implemented abruptly, they greatly affected our physical and mental well-being and brought about isolation and disruption in routine. EdApp’s Lockdown Survival Guide was built to help individuals overcome the negative effects of lockdowns. In this online training, learners will develop skills to cope and flourish by leveraging the power of positive psychology, mindfulness, and resilience. It teaches learners how to create a self-care plan depending on their needs using the PERMA framework. Here, learners will learn the importance of resetting routines, eating healthy, getting enough sleep, and maintaining physical activities that work around their current location’s condition.
Cost: Free
Scope: Building a self-care plan, positive psychology, building resilience, mindfulness
Created by EdApp
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3. X-Plane Flight Training Course
Using an airplane as a classroom for flight training isn’t always conducive to learning as it can be noisy, overwhelming, and costly. With Gleim Aviation’s X-Plane Flight Training course, learners are virtually placed in the driver’s seat for a memorable and realistic flight experience to prepare them for the real thing. This online course includes pre-flight briefing, ground & flight training, and safety training videos, together with the X-Plane 11, which is a flight simulator that gives real-time instructions and feedback. It’s tailored for every learner as you can “fly the plane” either through your mouse or a control yoke and rudder pedals that are similar to what’s being used on actual airplanes. Learners can also opt to just get the training lessons without the X-Plane flight simulator.
Cost: US $149.95 (with X-Plane), US $99.95 (without X-Plane)
Scope: Pre-flight briefing, ground instructions, flight instructions, safety training
Created by Gleim Aviation
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4. Merchants
Merchants is a game-based learning course that takes gamification in the workplace to the next level. It focuses on online negotiation and conflict resolution through a simulation, wherein learners take on the role of a young merchant who encounters different characters while exploring the city of Venice. It consists of six levels of real-life situations where they can learn and practice various negotiation skills and techniques. They may also enroll in this training to get personalized feedback at the end of each lesson and improve on their techniques in the next levels. Among the topics included are the fundamentals of negotiation, building trust, proposal presentation, and effective communication. Each level can be completed in different ways regardless if learners have prior knowledge about the topic or are totally new to the subject.
Cost: Contact GameLearn for pricing
Scope: Fundamentals of negotiation, conflict resolution, communication skills, keys to building trust
Created by GameLearn
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5. Remote Working
In response to the pandemic, organizations and governments have required employees to work in the safety of their homes. While this is convenient and comfortable for most people, employees still face many challenges when working remotely. EdApp’s Remote Working course focuses on helping employees be productive and thrive in this kind of work setup. It uncovers the challenges that remote workers face, such as distractions, technical hiccups, and communication issues. It also provides techniques you can use to structure your day by using techniques like the Kitchen System and Pomodoro. It also explores the causes of burnout while working at home and gives tips to combat its effects. By the end of this course, learners will be able to unlock peak productivity and take care of their well-being while working remotely.
With EdApp, encouraging and motivating your employees is made easy through the learning management system's Achievements feature. Achievements are a unique way to celebrate your team’s progress with customizable banners and badges to keep them engaged throughout their training. Some can be as simple as opening the app for the first time or completing an entire course with flying colors. It’s all up to you to determine the ingredients of each achievement and set up a “recipe” for success based on your intended learning experience.
Cost: Free, some paid features
Scope: Introduction to remote working, challenges of working remotely, structuring your day, productivity tips
Created by EdApp
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6. Work/Life Balance in the Same Room
With homes now serving as both personal and professional spaces, many workers are finding it difficult to balance their work and home life. Apart from the sense of isolation that workers feel from working and living in the same environment all week, there’s also a blurred line regarding when their work stops. Some employees might even have to balance their work tasks with childcare, which can be very distracting and stressful. To help workers gain control over their work and personal lives, EdApp has developed the course, Work/Life Balance in the Same Room. Firstly, it discusses the pros and cons of working from home and in the office. It then highlights the importance of daily routines like sleeping 8 to 10 hours, eating regular meals, and enjoying downtime. At the end of this working from home training program, all employees will also learn how to set up their workspace at home for better ergonomics and increased productivity.
To start training your team, you can import this microlearning course directly from EdApp's course library. As a cloud-based remote work software and SAAS management system, EdApp also allows you to edit and rebrand the entire course according to your organization’s guidelines, even without coding knowledge or design skills.
Cost: Free
Scope: Establishing routines, setting up work space, and creating boundaries
Created by EdApp
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7. Mindfulness for Wellbeing and Peak Performance
Aside from taking care of your physical health and safety, learning how to prioritize your mental well-being is another crucial aspect of remote work that you need to avoid the build-up of stress and boost your overall performance. With FutureLearn’s Mindfulness for Wellbeing and Peak Performance course, instructors from Monash University will walk learners through the basics of mindfulness, including the problem of unmindfulness, research on mindfulness, mindful communication, and mindfulness in memory and learning. This course also includes key lessons about relationships and empathy, self-compassion and emotional health, stress reduction techniques, and ways to improve work performance, all important for building a mindful company culture. By the end of the training session, learners will be able to identify the causes of stress in their lives and develop a range of effective mindfulness techniques.
Scope: Mindfulness, mindfulness stress reduction, and relationships and empathy
Cost: Free trial, Paid plan starts at $74 USD
Created by FutureLearn
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8. How to Demonstrate a 'Can Do' Attitude
Maintaining a can-do attitude at work will not only help you perform better on your job, but it will also motivate everyone on your team to take on any complicated scenario with passion, discipline, and enthusiasm. In this EdApp course, you will gain a deeper understanding of the 'Can Do' attitude, alongside life lessons and practices to live by to keep your thoughts and spirits positive all the time. As you go through the course, you will also learn how to approach complex and ambiguous problems and overcome frustrations before they affect your emotions and decisions. This mini training was designed with a lot of engaging elements such as gifs, animations, and short clips that will help you further understand the fundamentals of the can-do attitude. It also contains gamified quizzes between lessons to improve your learning retention.
Cost: Free
Scope: Introduction to ‘Can Do’ Attitude, tackling ambiguous problems, diffusing frustration, positive can-do practices
Created by EdApp
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9. How To Create A Productivity System
Highbrow's How To Create A Productivity System online-learning course is also a great resource for better time management and getting more done with less stress. In this course, you can start learning how to create a productivity system, like setting your goals, arranging and organizing tasks, prioritizing work, and planning your time to combat procrastination. This course will also guide you step-by-step on using different tools and apps to help you manage your time more efficiently and effectively.
Unlike other mindset training courses, Highbrow’s lessons will be sent to your inbox one by one, every morning for 10 days. All of the course materials are also followed by fun quizzes, which will only take at least 5 minutes to complete.
Cost: Free for only 30 days
Scope: Productivity system, goal setting, setting up and organizing tasks, prioritizing work, planning your time, tools and apps for better productivity
Created by Highbrow
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10. The Ultimate Guide to Personal Productivity
We all aspire to become the best version of ourselves so we can work towards our goals and accomplish even more. But where do we begin? This free personalized training program by EdApp teaches us that productivity starts by recognizing our personal work style and habits and using them to our advantage. This interactive course also emphasizes developing your time management skills and paying attention to detail, which helps you identify the techniques you should use to get more things done.
This free course contains 3 lessons and uses a microlearning design model that ensures learner engagement so it’s guaranteed to be easy to follow and finish.
Cost: Free
Scope: Personal work productivity, style, and habits and how to use them to your advantage
Created by EdApp
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11. Electrical Safety
The Electrical Safety course is a workplace safety training developed to help avoid electricity-related hazards. It starts by discussing the potential dangers of electricity, why they may happen, and how to prevent them. It also provides learners with basic knowledge on how to respond to accidents involving electricity when a specialist isn’t around. This customizable training course allows you to add content specific to your workplace and organization. What’s also good about this course is that it has a text-to-speech integration so visually impaired learners can still have access to the learning material. It takes around 55 minutes to complete this training program.
Cost: Contact EssentialSkillz for pricing
Scope: Dangers of electricity, causes of electricity-related accidents, responding to accidents
Created by EssentialSkillz
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12. Clinician Training on Tobacco Dependence for Respiratory Therapists
The American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC), together with Pfizer, developed this course to help improve the intervention skills of respiratory therapists. This course equips learners with the necessary information about tobacco use, the principles of addiction, and pharmacotherapy. Since smoking cessation is a sensitive and difficult topic, they’ll also learn how to establish a degree of comfort level and appropriately interact with tobacco users through training videos covering realistic patient situations. Here, learners will be taught how to form tailored and behaviorally-focused interventions in different kinds of settings. The learning management also includes self-assessment quizzes to reinforce learning.
Cost: US $60 (AARC members), $85 (non-AARC members)
Scope: Tobacco use, principles of addiction, intervention, realistic patient scenarios
Created by American Association for Respiratory Care
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13. Cyber Threat Simulation
Tonex’s Cyber Threat Simulation training educates learners about cyber security based on the Department of Defense’s perspective. This course teaches learners the principles of cyber security threats and uncovers the tools they need to detect and mitigate attacks at work. In addition, learners will also learn about the proper incident response during and after a cyber threat occurs. This course contains dynamic modules and hands-on threat simulation exercises portraying cyber-attacks that are highly likely to be used in an attempted breach. The simulations that learners will encounter in this course are both from an attacker and defender point of view for a holistic training experience.
Cost: Contact Tonex for pricing
Scope: Basic cyber threat principles, incident response, simulation exercises
Created by Tonex
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14. Virtual Reality Safety Training
3M put together a safety training program that uses VR technology to draw out learners’ attention to the different workplace hazards and safety protocols. It tackles fall protection that includes topics such as working at heights and harness inspection. Additionally, learners will be taught about safe welding practices, which includes a demonstration of the difference between using a passive helmet and an auto-darkening helmet. Through VR scenarios, workers will experience an immersive and interactive learning environment to practice what they’ve learned in a realistic but safe environment. The VR scenarios can be replayed multiple times, each time with a different scenario.
Cost: Contact 3M for pricing
Scope: Fundamentals of fall protection, harness inspection, working at heights, welding demo
Created by 3M
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15. Onboarding
This onboarding training by EdApp welcomes new retail employees and orients them with the details of their new jobs. It starts with an introduction to the company through its core values and business model. Learners will then be acquainted with store procedures, such as accepting payments and closing the store. Lastly, they’ll learn tips and tricks for cross-selling and suggestive selling. This course is meant for a retail company’s store but can be repurposed for any new hire training.
Cost: Free
Scope: Company values, store procedures, cross-selling, suggestive selling
Created by EdApp
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Personalized training programs promise tremendous potential for a learner’s personal growth and development. Often coupled with the latest technology, they offer a whole new way of learning that goes beyond a cookie-cutter learning approach that may not be suited for everyone. Using personalized training programs to reskill and upskill employees are geared towards building on their current skill sets, goals, and needs to better prepare them for future opportunities. Since they’re aware of their goals, this also promotes self-directed learning and boosts their interest and engagement.