12:00 PM – 12:45 PM

eLearning is in heightened demand by business leaders, but the investment can be quite significant. eLearning initiatives are considered investments since they require tangible financial requirements including technology and supporting infrastructure viewed as “capital expenditures.”

To gain leadership support you will learn to provide leaders with a financial evaluation and a return for the eLearning effort. In this session, Ajay Pangarkar, author and performance strategist, will help you recognize how leaders differentiate between a capital expenditure and a training expense and why they consider training a “cost” center. Discover the actual financial literacy tools leaders apply when proving financial validity to support your eLearning projects and to gain business leadership buy-in.

Participants in this session will identify how to get their eLearning initiative to gain management support. You’ll then build support for eLearning while building a solid financial business case for the initiative. This session should appeal to all training professionals, including external professionals working within an organization, but it’s especially geared for beginner and intermediate learning practitioners.

During this session, you will learn how to:

• Define business expectations for eLearning.
• Apply financial tools to build an effective case for eLearning.
• Communicate expectations into business results.
• Relate Kirkpatrick to business results.

Ajay M. Pangarkar Author and Performance Strategist | CentralKnowledge and LRNOnline.com Ajay Pangarkar is a FCPA, FCMA, and CTDP. Ajay, published three books with his recent, “The Trainers Balanced Scorecard: A Complete Resource for Linking Learning and Growth to Organizational Strategy.” Under his leadership, Training Magazine awarded CentralKnowledge their Technology in Action, Learning Management Project of the year for success with Apple. He is an award-winning writer winning the 2014 and 2015 prestigious TrainingIndustry.com Readership and Editors’ Award. eLearning Magazine recognized Ajay their 2016 Learning Champion and Thought leader. The World Training Development Congress named Ajay their 2017 “Distinguished Trainer.” He authors courses LinkedIn Learning and regularly guests for broadcast media discussing workforce performance issues.