How do you apply the knowledge and skills learned from online courses to your logistics projects?

The skills and knowledge I would want to acquire and improve is monitoring and controlling inventory and storage. The skills I will like to improve are a key component of why my job exist. By understanding how a product is made and consumer market demands allows me to improve my freight transportation management skills. For example, I need to know why you need this freight move in order to make an affective arrangement that is a profit move for the carrier and shipper. Making arrangements on freight that doesn't necessarily have to have arrangements at that moment is a loss. Customers create a challenge for me when wanting to haul freight just to get rid of it because their is no care or concern about the process.

Assessing the course and where you will derive value is a crucial step. As Stephen Covey reminds us, we should always "Begin with the end in mind." If we do that, we are set to be able to integrate the new knowledge immediately which will infinitely improve the value we get from the course. Especially in the logistics world, we don't have a lot of highly specific training. So we must but vigilant in looking for real world application.

Prior to receiving any kind of courses regarding logistics whether it is online or not, I would strongly advise to gain some practical working experience about the topic. This experience can be gained either with a traineeship or working as employee in the field. It makes sense to check how the wind blows in logistics-supply chain-warehouse. Otherwise, you will not be able to place whatever you are trying to learn in the reality and you will be easily forgetting. Having somewhat experience will not only help you to understand the training better, but also will let you to think how you will be able to apply learnt elements in your work environment.

Absolute agree learning courses with a variety of formats and resources allowed me to better learn the course. Using the same formats to learn a course can become very mundane.

In the learning journey, it is crucial to be part of active communities. This helps to get quick feedback (fail fast, learn fast) and helps shorten the learning curve significantly.

It’s critical to apply what we learn to real world situations; however identifying them as fruitful engagement opportunities can be difficult. On line learning for many seems to be a “lighter lift” in contrast to peer-to-peer, face to face learning. I view it in the converse- a flexible and adaptive opportunity to sift through your own environment and beta test critical thinking and techniques more quietly and in depth without the immediate input of others. Once tested in theory, let ‘er rip in practice. Be critical and ask for feedback, then bring what you’ve learned back the course work in the form of comment, constructive conversation and a chance to develop. Take it off line even for a phone call or a zoom meeting. Extract!