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ElectivesTM helps you deliver better quality learning with less effort.
The Electives library houses 150+ instructors teaching 450+ live classes, giving you the mix of quality, quantity and diversity of voices you need to create meaningful learning impact.
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Leadership skills
Electives leadership classes bring teams together to level up their skills across a wide array of topics. All of our leadership classes promote empathetic and inclusive leadership styles. We have leadership classes designed at every level, and all of our classes can be customized to fit the unique needs of your teams.
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Manager training
Electives manager training classes support the needs of your newer managers and upcoming leaders. Within the manager training library, we house our professional skills classes, which are ideal for individual contributors with specific growth or remediation needs.
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Personal development
Our personal development classes support the 360-degree growth of individuals. With an understanding that healthier people are more productive, these classes remind people to prioritize themselves across areas like relationship building, financial management and mindfulness. Electives personal development classes show your people that you care, while increasing their productivity, impact, work-life balance and career growth opportunities.
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Communication skills
We designed our communication skills class library to support broad needs and address specific challenges faced at home and work. Many of our communication skills classes are perfect for your employees across all levels, while other classes are ideal for leaders.
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Diversity, equity + inclusion
Our DEI library includes classes appropriate for every DEI program and initiative — from the most sophisticated to those just starting. Every DEI class creates a safe space to start DEI conversations and dive into the most complex and challenging topics and truths. With an eye toward action, our DEI classes lay foundations while supporting DEI strategy and allyship at the individual, team and company-wide levels. Because we have niche-topic classes taught by a diverse community of instructors, our DEI classes are also perfect for employee resource groups (ERGs) that want to address specific topics by bringing in relevant instructors.
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Wellbeing
We’ve curated wellbeing and wellness classes to help companies create a supportive culture that encourages people to care for themselves and one another. Learner feedback after Electives wellbeing classes is often about pride — people are proud to work for companies investing in learning with such significant individual impact.
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Innovation + new technology
We built our library of innovation and new technology classes to bring awareness to the advancements that matter most to your business and your people — inside and outside of work. Although most of these classes are introductory, the expertise of Electives instructors allows for deeper-level content when your teams are ready.
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Culture + team building
Our culture and team-building classes enhance relationships and culture. From fun events and life lessons to classes on adaptive teamwork and remote/hybrid connections, our team- and culture-building classes positively address collaboration, culture and retention. These classes often result in laughter, tears, virtual applause and memories that go way beyond the Zoom classroom.
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An easier way to bring live learning to your teams.
Electives is an enterprise live learning platform that streamlines your planning, curation, administration and measurement, which means you can deliver better quality learning with less effort.
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Here’s how Electives can benefit you and your teams:
Save time and money previously spent sourcing, vetting, procuring, scheduling and managing learning programs.
Demonstrate your people-first culture with tangible learning experiences that support your company’s unique values.
Leverage trusted instructors and proven content to deliver impactful learning.
Offload logistics of learning for multiple teams, regions and groups.
Impact employee views and behaviors while encouraging positive long-term changes.
Improve retention through employee engagement while promoting remote- and hybrid-team collaboration and communication.
Upskill and reskill employees while building a culture of learning.
Deliver content that supports ERGs and creates DEI impact, awareness and action.
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Frequently asked questions
Electives is an enterprise live learning platform that streamlines your planning, curation, administration and measurement, which means you can deliver better quality learning with less effort.
Electives instructors are real people sharing real-life experiences and leadership lessons. They give valuable advice as they tell stories and express feelings people are often afraid to share.
We source and vet traditional and nontraditional instructors with a proprietary, multi-step process designed to ensure an experience people will love.
- Community sourcing: We source instructors through top-of-funnel research, word of mouth and referrals.
- One-on-one interviews: Our learning experiences team interviews all prospective instructors to ensure their authenticity, while confirming their content and teaching styles align with the Electives mission and our current needs.
- Pilot classes: The prospective instructors that are approved to move forward then teach a pilot class. The Electives pilot community provides qualitative and quantitative feedback, helping determine whether or not we add the instructor to our platform. The Electives pilot community includes employees from all of our client partners.
- Ongoing performance: Once instructors are live on the Electives platform, their classes can be viewed and booked on the Electives platform. Instructors must maintain high scores to remain on the platform.
We only add instructors who deliver impactful and unforgettable experiences into the Electives instructor community.
Electives offers 450+ classes on essential topics like leadership, new manager training, communication skills, DEI, innovation and more. Learn about the Electives library here.
We curate Electives classes with learner desires and employer objectives in mind. Although we offer classes in various formats, our classes are all inclusive, interactive, impactful and unforgettable. All Electives classes are delivered live via Zoom.
Because learning needs constantly evolve, we add new classes to the Electives library every month. We also require our instructors to keep their existing classes updated with relevant resources and examples. Likewise, we are regularly sourcing and vetting new instructors who bring unique expertise and experience to the Electives library.
The Electives live learning platform includes 4 synchronized parts:
- Extraordinary instructors deliver unforgettable experiences. Electives instructors are real people sharing real-life experiences as professors, FBI agents, psychologists, performers, athletes and more.
- Live learning builds memorable connections. We offer 450+ live classes on essential topics like leadership, new manager training, communication skills, DEI, innovation and more.
- Platform tools eliminate your administrative burden. The Electives live learning platform provides a single source for planning, curation, administration and measurement.
- Electives support builds your confidence. We’re technology-enabled but people-focused — which means we’re with you every step of the way. We’ll help you develop and execute learning strategies that meet your organization’s unique objectives.
Electives support helps you develop and execute learning strategies that meet your organization’s unique objectives.
Electives support includes:
- Onboarding.
- Learning strategy sessions.
- Periodic business reviews.
Contact the Electives sales to learn more about Electives support.
Electives can help you:
- Save time and money previously spent sourcing, vetting, procuring, scheduling and managing learning programs.
- Leverage trusted instructors and proven content to deliver impactful learning.
- Impact employee views and behaviors while encouraging positive long-term changes.
- Upskill and reskill employees while building a culture of learning.
- Offload logistics of learning for multiple teams, regions and groups.
- Demonstrate your people-first culture with tangible learning experiences that support your company’s unique values.
- Improve retention through employee engagement.
- Promote remote- and hybrid-team collaboration and communication.
- Deliver content that supports ERGs and creates DEI impact, awareness and action.
The Electives team can help you determine what learning experiences your employees want through tools, like surveys, that help you learn that information from your employees.
We designed Electives for those who want to provide the best learning experiences and create measurable learning impact. We’re making it easy for even the busiest HR, people operations, DEI and business leaders to feel proud of their learning strategies and execution by helping them deliver better quality learning with less effort.
The Electives platform streamlines your planning, curation, administration and measurement, which means you can:
- Save time and money previously spent sourcing, vetting, procuring, scheduling and managing learning programs.
- Leverage trusted instructors and proven content to deliver impactful learning.
- Impact employee views and behaviors while encouraging positive long-term changes.
- Upskill and reskill employees while building a culture of learning.
- Offload logistics of learning for multiple teams, regions and groups.
- Demonstrate your people-first culture with tangible learning experiences that support your company’s unique values.
- Improve retention through employee engagement.
- romote remote- and hybrid-team collaboration and communication.
- Deliver content that supports ERGs and creates DEI impact, awareness and action.
There are many ways to measure the effectiveness of your Electives learning program, including surveys, assessments and performance evaluations. Your Electives support team will work with you to define your objectives, map your strategy and develop a plan for meaningful learning impact — including measurement.
The Electives platform supports individual, team-based and peer-to-peer live learning with a perfect mix of quality, quantity and diversity of content, instructors and experiences.
The Electives platform features:
- Electives Membership, a live learning membership program that lets employees select the classes they want to join each month.
- Private classes, delivered live to organizations and teams. We’ll help you build the series of private classes that best meet your learning objectives.
- Certificate programs with peer-to-peer learning opportunities.
- Learning strategy and execution support.
- Learning impact measurement and analysis.
- 150+ instructors who are real people sharing real-life experiences and leadership lessons.
- 450+ classes covering all your most-needed and most-desired topics in categories like leadership, new manager training, communication skills, DEI, innovation and more.
Electives offers three package types:
- Foundation: Built for companies currently formalizing their learning programs. The foundation package lets companies leverage the Electives platform plus Electives Membership, private classes and certificate programs for select employees.
- Growth: For companies ready to expand their learning programs, our growth package engages a more significant percentage of the employee base. The growth package offers additional platform features and extended support for learning objectives and program management.
- Impact: Our impact package is for companies prioritizing learning across their entire employee base. Offering more learning opportunities, all of our platform features and high-touch support, the impact package is designed to help create your organization’s unique learning culture.
Electives is actively recruiting instructors that deliver inclusive and unforgettable experiences. We are looking for the following:
- Experts with relevant lived experience.
- Unforgettable storytellers.
- Natural instructors who can develop learners.
Electives is an enterprise live learning platform that streamlines your planning, curation, administration and measurement, which means you can deliver better quality learning with less effort.
Contact the Electives sales team. Together, we’ll build the learning program that is right for you.