The app works by using two macros Property Group and Property Group Report.
The Properties - Custom fields, Metadata, Databases & Reports app helps teams quickly gather important information on pages and display that information on an index page. Taking training portals to the next level with Properties
Confluence can accomplish most if not all of these characteristics. Good training portals are user-centric, personalized, multi-format, and interactive. The most important characteristics are more qualitative, though. Training portals can range widely in what they offer, with more sophisticated training portals having messaging, email, or even virtual learning environments. That could include courses, videos, presentations, or documents. First, what exactly is a training portal?Ī training portal is a place where your employees can go to get more information about their training. Now that we’ve got some basic ideas on how to do training with Confluence, let’s take it to the next level and make Confluence our “training portal”. After the training session, the trainer or trainees can refer back to that page to see what the next steps are and… continuously improve! Training portal If training sessions are live, even better! The trainer could have a different page for each training session, taking notes about what each person or group needs to improve on or what they should accomplish in the next session. You could also have a transcript of the training, some materials for practice, and links to find more information. On each page, you could have a video of the training for users to watch in their own time. Within those Spaces, you could have pages for individual training. If we are already using Confluence for internal and external documentation, why not start using it for our training? Trainers and administrators can create Spaces for all training materials or department-specific Spaces if the organization is large. With Confluence, users can tag, comment, like, and work in teams to discuss documents and goals. Users create their own Spaces for content, then pages within those Spaces are organized into a hierarchy of parent and child pages. It’s a great collaboration tool that integrates directly with Jira. ConfluenceĬonfluence is already our tool for documentation and internal wikis. So how do we make our training easily accessible for our colleagues? Well, it starts with Confluence, so let’s take a closer look. Good training should also have follow-ups, reading material, and extra training incorporated. After all, the tools are only as good as the people that use them, so any organizational competitive advantage is deeply rooted in the organization’s people. That’s how companies get their competitive edge. With eLearning tools such as Udemy and the Kanh Academy, learning is now more accessible than ever before.īut our internal training? We don’t want to make that public. Organizations these days have begun to harness that notion and make continuous learning and improvement accessible to all employees whenever they would like to use it. Administrative activities should not occupy too much of our precious time. Learning should not be difficult to find or navigate. If we must keep doing it, we should make it as accessible as possible.
So we must keep learning, in our personal lives and in our work.
Coach Wooden meant he would be done with life if he was done learning because at every age of life there is something to learn. The famous basketball coach, John Wooden, put it best in this quote: “When I am through learning, I am through.” It’s not just about learning to get better and make more money, it’s about improving our life and the lives of others around us. Without training and continuous learning we cannot expect to get that next raise or promotion. Keeping our skills as primed as possible in our respective fields helps keep us moving forward in our careers. Let’s face it, continuous improvement is part of our lives, whether we consider ourselves agile or not.