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Our instructor community features innovation experts, professors, C-suite executives, Olympic coaches, comedians, journalists and more. Collectively, they deliver live learning to prepare your employees for what's ahead.
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Manager training
Manager training from Electives empowers new managers and rising leaders to turn challenges into growth. Our expert-led, live training sessions keep pace with today’s rapid changes, fostering engagement, collaboration and productivity. Our manager training programs feature current, relevant topics – like AI readiness and resilience – bringing teams together with shared purpose and delivering immediate, lasting ROI.
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AI + innovation
Our AI and innovation classes harness the power of live learning to keep your company at the forefront. Led by experts, these sessions cover cutting-edge topics, equipping your team to adapt quickly and maintain a competitive edge. With a focus on real-time relevance, they drive productivity and growth by helping your people stay ahead of the curve.
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Culture + collaboration
Boost productivity with high-performance culture training from Electives. Through live, interactive sessions, your team connects over shared ideas and language that enhance engagement and foster real-time collaboration. With up-to-date topics like AI readiness, our programs drive immediate and lasting ROI, preparing your team to thrive in a fast-evolving landscape.
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Business foundations
Our business foundations programs focus on essential skills to boost productivity and wellbeing. Taught live by extraordinary instructors sharing real-world experiences, topics cover up-to-date essentials, including AI basics, to keep employees engaged and prepared for today’s dynamic business landscape.
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Leadership skills
Our leadership programs are designed for today’s and tomorrow’s leaders, with live, interactive classes led by top-tier instructors — including Fortune 500 executives and Ivy League professors. Each session builds relevant, real-world skills for impactful leadership, fostering engagement and immediate application.
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Communication skills
Guided by expert instructors, our live communications skills programs tackle strategies for inspiring and connecting effectively. With timely insights, your team will be equipped to communicate with impact in today’s evolving landscape.
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Wellbeing
Wellbeing is essential to a high-performance culture, especially as burnout becomes more prevalent. Our live classes go beyond traditional learning, empowering individuals to prioritize their own wellbeing and actively support their colleagues. With real-time engagement and insights, these sessions foster a resilient, connected team equipped to thrive together.
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Diversity, equity + inclusion
Our live DEI programs create safe spaces to tackle complex, challenging topics. Led by a diverse community of instructors sharing real-life experiences, these live classes are popular with ERGs and ideal for all employees.
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Frequently asked questions
Electives helps you future-proof your team with corporate training redefined for the AI era. All classes are live, expert-led and interactive. Always.
- Electives Membership: Enroll your organization, and your employees will have instant access to daily live classes on today's most-needed topics. Free certificate programs included.
- Private programs: Choose from Modern Manager Training, AI Readiness Training or High-Performance Culture Training. Or, we can build a custom program based on your unique objectives.
Electives is the live learning solution for lean People teams who are frustrated with traditional corporate training solutions.
Our live learning programs are designed for growing, people-focused companies.
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.
Our instructor community features professors, C-suite executives, astronauts, Olympic athletes and coaches, comedians, poets, songwriters, historians, best-selling authors and more. Get a sneak peek in these class moments on YouTube.
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. Every Electives class in every Electives program is taught by our vetted instructor community. All classes are live.
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.
Every Electives class in every Electives program goes through this curation processing.
Because learning needs constantly evolve, we add new classes to the Electives library continuously. 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.
All Electives classes are live, delivered via Zoom.
Yes! Our Modern Manager Training program is designed to equip your managers with the skills they need to lead with excellence.
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We offer AI readiness training designed to build cultural understanding and adaptability around AI. Our live classes help teams understand the impact of AI, foster a forward-thinking mindset and prepare employees to integrate AI’s potential effectively into their work.
In a world of diverse demands and limited time, Electives helps you achieve it all by crafting customized learning programs that align with your specific needs and wants. We start by understanding your business objectives, defining precise learning goals and curating a tailored program. We then match you with the right instructors and content. Throughout your program, we measure essential KPIs for continual growth.
Electives support includes:
- Strategic onboarding to align business goals with learning outcomes.
- Matching extraordinary instructors and proven content with your unique culture and goals for a perfect fit every time.
- Tracking essential KPIs to understand the impact of your training investment and continually refine your learning program.
- Periodic business reviews.
Throughout your journey with Electives, your customer success manager will be by your side every step of the way to ensure success.
Electives lets you bring top-tier live learning to your company with minimal effort — perfectly suited for lean People teams and limited budgets.
Here’s how it works:
- Enroll your organization in Electives Membership. Give your employees instant access to daily live classes on today’s most-needed topics.
- Build your private class program. Define your objectives and we’ll map out a private program that delivers the results you need.
- Gain an extension to your People team. From strategy to logistics, we’re by your side. We’ll make sure your live learning program is a success.
- Get everything you need all in one place. Launch surveys. Analyze data and feedback. Find resources and class recordings. It’s all within the Electives platform.
When you partner with Electives, you instantly gain access to 100s of live classes taught by inspiring instructors, sparking connections and real-time engagement.
Here are more ways working with Electives will benefit you and your organization:
- Effortless L&D management. Our platform streamlines live learning management, allowing you to focus on other priorities.
- Get started immediately. As soon as you enroll your organization in Electives Membership, they’ll have access to live daily classes on today’s most important topics.
- Deliver innovative, relevant learning. Our diverse lineup of exceptional instructors and highly current topics excites employees, keeping them engaged with fresh, meaningful content.
- Drive strategic growth. Electives combines technology with expert guidance to build live learning programs that fuel long-term, strategic growth.
- Tailored to your culture. Our live programs adapt to reflect your company’s unique culture, objectives and growth journey.
- Continuously updated. We’re always sourcing and vetting new instructors and content to keep up with the fast-changing needs of today’s workforce.
- Scalable and adaptable. Designed for both immediate impact and future aspirations, Electives scales as your business grows.
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.
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.