YC旗下创业公司GO1，想要挑战企业传统合规培训
美国企业孵化器Y Combinator 2015年夏季主打公司GO1，一家成立于北美的员工培训企业，旨在用更有效更新潮的方法教育和培训员工。
想必在大公司工作过的人都应该体验过完成年度合规培训的挫败感。通常情况下，所谓的合规培训就是要你连续看几个小时的网络研讨会，会议的内容是教你如何成为公司团队的一员，如避免腐败等等。举个简单的例子，你要浏览每张幻灯片的信息，哪怕幻灯片上的内容非常浅显易懂。
GO1的培训教师团队由来自牛津大学的澳大利亚人组成，GO1运用的一些培训理念是经过育智科技企业（比如Coursera和Udemy）实践认证的。
GO1的创始人Andrew Barnes是一位罗德学者（猎云网注：罗德奖学金是一个世界级的奖学金，有“全球本科生诺贝尔奖”之称的美誉，得奖者被称为“罗德学者”。），是牛津大学的教育技术硕士。“对于很多公司而言，合规培训是特定的。”Barnes在采访中说道，“可是走形式的合规培训简直是在滥用员工的时间，造成员工对公司不满；真正的员工培训应该是让员工变得更有实力。”
GO1可为不同的组织机构定制不同的培训计划，它要么根据市场需求给组织机构增加培训课程，要么根据每个公司自身的材料制定计划；而不是随便放50页PPT就完事了，GO1的培训课程会请成功人士为你演讲，比如邀请一位将军，他会留给你两个有多项选择的问题，问题的内容是关于他所讲的故事对你的工作有何帮助。
公司可以上传任意PPT和网页文件到GO1上，它会自动将你上传的资料转换为超级文本标记语言（HTML）格式，以供员工下载。不管你是用笔记本电脑、平板电脑还是其它移动设备上传，员工都能看见这些文件；而且他们还能边看边做笔记，以备后续参考用。
“员工培训是个非常分散的市场，里面有很多小型提供商；这让人力资源管理者和员工很头疼。”Barnes说道，“我们的目标是就是帮管理者和员工解决这个问题，满足公司的培训和学习需求。”
在很多情况下，员工的合规培训是法律所需。比如，加利福利亚所有超过50名员工的公司根据法律要求，需为员工提供有关性骚扰的培训。Barnes在采访中说：“现在有很多公司根本不按法律办事，要么是因为他们没有意识到违法的后果，要么是因为他们觉得按法律办事有点困难。”
一年前，GO1在澳大利亚建立，从那时起，它一共为15万用户提供了培训计划，服务了近百家企业。
GO1为澳大利亚一家大的银行提供有关急救方面的培训，对银行员工和顾客进行应急急救教育。
GO1计划在参加YC项目期间打开在北美的市场，它对那些只有10名以下员工的公司提供免费的服务，对大公司也只收每用户1美元/每月。
YC-Backed GO1 Wants To Make Compliance Training Suck Less
GO1, an employee training startup out of Y Combinator’s Summer 2015 cohort, is launching in North America to help companies onboard and educate their employees in a more effective fashion.
Anyone who has worked for a large company knows the frustration of completing yearly compliance training. Generally this means watching a couple of hour-long web seminars about being a team player or avoiding corruption, for instance, which require you to click through slides of information that all seems rather obvious.
Founded by an Australian team of educators out of Oxford University, GO1 is applying some of the concepts proven by edtech startups, such as Coursera and Udemy, to employee training.
“For a lot of companies, compliance training is fairly ad-hoc,” says GO1 founder Andrew Barnes, who is a Rhodes scholar finishing up a masters in Education Technology at Oxford. “It’s a really bad use of people’s time and it creates a sense of resentment toward the company, when really, training should be empowering the staff.”
Organizations using GO1 can customize their own white-labelled training portal by either adding courses from GO1’s marketplace or creating their own with company materials. Instead of a generic 50-slide PowerPoint presentation about why listening is important, a GO1 course might feature a TED Talk by an Army general followed by two multiple-choice questions about how his story applies to your job.
Companies can upload any PowerPoint or web document to GO1, which automatically converts it into an HTML format that employees can download. Whether on a laptop, mobile device, or tablet, employees can view the documents and jot down notes that are saved for later reference.
“This is a very fragmented market, there are a lot of small providers and a lot of frustration for HR managers and employees,” says Barnes. “Our goal is to be the solution for both ends of that equation and provide a consistent single interface for all a company’s training and learning needs.”
In many cases, employee compliance training is required by law. All California businesses that employ more than 50 people, for instance, are legally obliged to provide sexual harassment training to their staff, according to Barnes. Currently many companies aren’t abiding by this law, Barnes says, either because they’re not aware of the legal consequences or because it’s too difficult to do so.
GO1 launched in Australia a year ago, and has since provided training for over 150,000 users spread across nearly a hundred companies.
Customers range from the largest ambulance training program in Australia to a major bank that’s using GO1 for both staff and customer education.
GO1 will focus on growing its business in North America for the duration of the YC program. The service is free for companies with under 10 employees, and currently costs $1 per user per month for larger companies.
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