By Fred Green

Is your business green? Are you making a serious effort to reduce your company’s environmental impact and to adopt environmentally-sound practices? An increasing number of people can answer those questions with a resounding “yes”. The move toward a greener workplace is underway as more people recognize the serious repercussions of “business as usual”.

Businesses are doing what they can to shrink carbon footprints, reduce waste and to eliminate excess power consumption. You’ve undoubtedly noticed an increased focus on a green workplace over the last few years. Recycling, once rare, is now commonplace. Almost every new appliance or piece of electrically-powered equipment entering the office now bears an Energy Star sticker. Those who operate in the industrial sector have seen countless changes to production processes as companies strive to operate with environmental well being as a priority.
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The obvious changes are only the beginning, however. If one looks even more closely at a company’s daily operations, he or she will undoubtedly find other ways to make a difference. It’s possible to tweak a variety of systems and functions to become more green. Job training is a perfect example.

Traditional job training methodologies are nightmares in environmental terms. First, they often generate extensive quantities of paperwork. You can almost hear the chainsaws clear-cutting a chunk of the rainforest every time you stare at the stacks of paperwork used in most job training scenarios.

Deforestation, obviously, is a significant environmental concern. That’s one reason why it makes so much sense to transition to a blended approach to job training. A system that utilizes the Internet to facilitate information distribution can considerably reduce the quantity of paper used. E-learning strategies, then, are a great way to get closer to being truly green.

Job training often necessitates a great deal of travel, too. You have employees moving back and forth between offices and job sites. They’re using cars and airplanes to make those trips and are burning up unimaginable quantities of fossil fuel products in the process. We know what that means both in terms of general conservation and carbon dioxide emissions. Traditional travel-heavy strategies are anything but green.

Job training doesn’t need to be that way, however. A shift to Internet-based training strategies can reduce the need for travel. Instead of watching employees burn fossil fuels, a smart company can alter its training strategy to reduce the expense and negative environmental impact associated with it.

Blended approaches to training that utilize web-based technologies are a strong example of how a company can find pathways to greener operation in almost area.

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