{"id":352618,"date":"2023-06-13T10:40:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T17:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/?post_type=yardi-testimonials&#038;p=352618"},"modified":"2023-06-15T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:33:06","slug":"alco-on-aspire","status":"publish","type":"yardi-testimonials","link":"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/en-gb\/about-us\/success-stories\/alco-on-aspire\/","title":{"rendered":"ALCO on Aspire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"uk-container-expand uk-cover-container uk-height-medium uk-background-secondary uk-light uk-margin uk-flex uk-flex-center uk-flex-middle\">\n    <div class=\"uk-position-cover uk-background-image uk-background-cover uk-flex uk-flex-center uk-flex-middle\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/cmw-client-success\/public\/images\/generic\/7.jpg);\">\n    <div class=\"uk-width-4-5 uk-margin-auto uk-grid\">\n        <div class=\"uk-width-1-1 uk-width-auto@m uk-text-center uk-text-middle uk-overlay uk-overlay-primary uk-light uk-padding-small\" style=\"border:4px solid #fff;\">\n            <p class=\"uk-h2 uk-text-bold\">Client Success<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"uk-width-expand uk-text-left uk-text-middle uk-overlay uk-overlay-primary uk-light uk-padding-small uk-visible@m\" style=\"border:4px solid #fff; border-left:0px; min-width: 200px;\">\n            <p class=\"uk-h2 uk-text-bold\">ALCO Management, Inc.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"uk-width-expand uk-text-left uk-text-middle uk-overlay uk-overlay-primary uk-light uk-padding-small uk-hidden@m\" style=\"border:4px solid #fff; border-top:0px; min-width: 200px;\">\n            <p class=\"uk-h3 uk-text-bold\">ALCO Management, Inc.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"uk-container-large uk-margin-auto uk-padding-small uk-padding-remove@m\">\n<!-- breadcrumbs & download link -->\n        <div class=\"uk-align-left\">\n        <p class=\"uk-text-small\" id=\"breadcrumbs\"><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/\">Home<\/a> \u00bb <span>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/about-us\/success-stories\/\">Success Stories<\/a> \u00bb \n            <span class=\"breadcrumb_last\" aria-current=\"page\">ALCO on Aspire<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"uk-text-right\">\n            <p class=\"uk-text-small\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/en-gb\/about-us\/success-stories\/alco-on-aspire\/?format=pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"uk-link-text\">view\/download the pdf<\/a><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"uk-clearfix\"> <\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uk-container-expand\">\n    <div class=\"uk-grid uk-grid-collapse uk-overflow-hidden\" uk-grid uk-height-match>\n        <div class=\"cmw-hm uk-width-2-3@m\">\n            <div class=\"uk-padding-large uk-padding-remove-vertical\">\n                <div uk-slider=\"center: true\">\n                    <div class=\"uk-position-relative uk-visible-toggle\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n                        <ul class=\"uk-slider-items uk-padding-horizontal uk-child-width-2-3@s uk-grid\">\n                                                                                    <li>\n                                <div class=\"\">\n                                    <blockquote>\n                                        <p class=\"uk-margin-small-bottom\">Yardi helps us keep up with evolving affordable housing industry regulations. As soon as HUD changes go into effect, Yardi Aspire works to make sure our training content is compliant.<\/p>\n                                        <footer class=\"uk-text-right\">Ebonye Edwards, Director of Learning and Development<\/footer>\n                                    <\/blockquote>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                                                <\/ul>\n                        <a class=\"uk-position-center-left uk-position-small uk-hidden-hover\" href=\"#\" uk-slidenav-previous uk-slider-item=\"previous\"><\/a>\n                        <a class=\"uk-position-center-right uk-position-small uk-hidden-hover\" href=\"#\" uk-slidenav-next uk-slider-item=\"next\"><\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <ul class=\"uk-slider-nav uk-dotnav uk-flex-center uk-margin\"><\/ul>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"uk-padding-large uk-padding-remove-vertical\">\n                <div class=\"uk-margin\">\n<h3 class=\"uk-margin-small\">The Company<\/h3>\n<p class=\"uk-margin-remove\">ALCO\u2019s mission is to provide quality, affordable homes for residents, meaningful work for employees, reliable returns for investors and excellent service for regulators. Since 1974, ALCO has successfully acquired, developed and managed thousands of apartments across the Southeast. With a portfolio focused on affordable apartment properties, ALCO excels at managing vibrant communities filled with places people are proud to call home.<br><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uk-margin\">\n<h3 class=\"uk-margin-small\">The Challenge<\/h3>\n<p class=\"uk-text-bold uk-margin-remove\"><strong>Realizing the Benefits of a Learning Management Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"uk-margin-remove\">ALCO\u2019s training program was a hybrid of in-person training sessions held in live, virtual meeting spaces and some online coursework. Timing classes with the availability of in-office staff proved difficult. Keeping up with evolving compliance standards required time and effort.\u00a0<br><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uk-margin\">\n<h3 class=\"uk-margin-small\">The Solution<\/h3>\n<p class=\"uk-text-bold uk-margin-remove\">Yardi Aspire<\/p>\n<p class=\"uk-margin-remove\">Yardi Aspire is next generation training technology that unlocks employee potential with a personalized blend of virtual training, live events, company resources and direct coaching feedback. Optimize your training spend with effective training content, reduced administration and deeper insights to help increase efficiency and performance. Get unlimited access to train your entire organization using Aspire\u2019s exclusive Yardi software content. Plus get hundreds of customizable courses on compliance, safety, professional skills, leadership and more.<br><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"uk-margin\">\n<h3 class=\"uk-margin-small\">The Story<\/h3>\n<p class=\"uk-margin-remove\">2018 was a transitional phase for ALCO. The affordable housing provider sought to maximize the benefits of its internal training program, and had just hired Ebonye Edwards as the organization\u2019s new director of learning and development.\u00a0<br><br>ALCO was a licensed client of Yardi Aspire at the time. However, Edwards discovered that ALCO\u2019s use of the Learning Management Solution (LMS) was not extensive. Team members were simply using it to access a select number of courses that covered important, but not company specific topics such as fair housing, sexual harassment and maintaining a drug-free workplace. All other topics, including affordable housing compliance subjects, were taught by in-house instructors.\u00a0<br><br>\u201cOur trainers would set a schedule and hope to reach everyone who needed training. Despite our property management staff&#8217;s best efforts, some missed scheduled training because they were attending to the immediate needs at their properties,\u201d says Edwards.\u00a0<br><br>Not only was scheduling individual training for each employee a challenge, but ALCO\u2019s former training program also dealt with issues such as finding time for live, online instruction, and dealing with unknown delays and absences.\u00a0<br><br>Ebonye took a closer look at Aspire and found that it had affordable housing property management and compliance training content that could supplement, if not replace, much of the training ALCO was having difficulty coordinating across its regional workspaces.\u00a0<br><br>ALCO trainers then considered the different roles within the organization, such as property managers, maintenance teams, compliance specialists, etc., and created learning plans based on those roles using coursework included in Aspire.\u00a0<br><br><strong>Developing Custom Content<\/strong><br>ALCO\u2019s training team finds value in the standard courses included with Aspire, and their ability to flesh out various learning plans. However, ALCO soon discovered that custom content would be required, so they hired a senior instructional designer to use course authoring tools.\u00a0<br><br>\u201cOur designer is great at creating custom courses in Aspire. She uses the templates and design tools to roll out coursework to our team, and can normally complete a module in a matter of days,\u201d says Edwards.<br>\u00a0<br>One of the biggest differentiators Ebonye has found with Aspire is that it\u2019s not simply a medium to get training content onto the screens of learners. Aspire is different because it also has built-in, proprietary content that meets ALCO\u2019s needs as well as the ability for the design team to easily tweak the classes or build new learning modules from scratch.\u00a0<br><br><strong>Tracking the Benefits of Training<\/strong><br>Aspire gives ALCO the ability to centralize all training efforts on a single learning management solution, which replaces a lot of administrative work. Instead of keeping track of training schedules for each employee in a spreadsheet or database, ALCO automates reporting using Aspire. Team members receive automated alerts when it\u2019s necessary for them to recertify on subjects such as fair housing, employment standards and changing laws.\u00a0<br><br>\u201cAnytime there is an update from HUD or a state agency on compliance regulations, we feel assured that the training content in Aspire will soon be updated to reflect those changes. The Aspire team communicates very well with regard to compliance changes and how the courses have been amended. That communication helps us as trainers keep our team in the know about what\u2019s coming down the pike,\u201d says Edwards.\u00a0<br><br><strong>Working Through the Unexpected<\/strong><br>Yardi Aspire helped ALCO remain productive and able to serve its stakeholders during the COVID pandemic. For example, Aspire helped onboard new employees even when in-person meetings were not feasible. Because ALCO\u2019s learning plans in Aspire were accessible over the internet, new and existing employees could access training, even when not working in the office.\u00a0<br><br>\u201cAspire is a great tool for delivering training consistently, so that team members who are in the office and those who are remote share the same learning experience. We\u2019ve continued to have remote team members post-pandemic, and Aspire is one of the reasons why we\u2019ve been able to do so,\u201d said Edwards.\u00a0<br><br><br><\/p>\n<\/div>            <\/div>\n            <div><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"cmw-hm-target uk-width-1-3@m uk-flex-first@m\" >\n\n                        <div class=\"uk-display-block uk-width-1-1 uk-padding-small uk-margin-remove\">\n                <div class=\"uk-width-2-3@l uk-align-right\">\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"151\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2023\/06\/ALCO-Mgmt.png\" alt=\"ALCO Management, Inc. logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2023\/06\/ALCO-Mgmt.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/2023\/06\/ALCO-Mgmt.png\">\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"uk-clearfix\"> <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"uk-clearfix\"> <\/div>\n            \n            <div class=\"uk-display-block uk-width-1-1 uk-padding-remove uk-height-1-1 uk-margin-remove uk-cover-container\">\n                <div class=\"uk-position-cover uk-background-image uk-background-repeat\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/cmw-client-success\/public\/images\/plus_dark_tileable.png);\"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"uk-position-relative uk-margin-left\">\n                    <div class=\"sidebar-inner uk-width-2-3@l uk-float-right uk-margin-small-right\">\n                        <p class=\"uk-text-muted uk-margin\">Overview<\/p>\n\n                        <div class=\"uk-margin\">\n                            <p class=\"uk-text-emphasis uk-text-bold uk-margin-small\">Markets<\/p>\n                            <ul class=\"uk-list cmw-list-condensed uk-margin-remove \">\n                                                                                                    <li>Affordable Housing<\/li>\n                                                            <\/ul>\n                        <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"uk-margin\">\n                                <p class=\"uk-text-emphasis uk-text-bold uk-margin-remove\">Portfolio<\/p>\n                                <p class=\"uk-margin-remove\">59 properties<br>5,947 residential units<\/p>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                                            <div class=\"uk-margin\">\n                                <p class=\"uk-text-emphasis uk-text-bold uk-margin-remove\">Client Since<\/p>\n                                <p class=\"uk-margin-remove\">2006<\/p>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                <div class=\"uk-margin\">\n                            <p class=\"uk-text-emphasis uk-text-bold uk-margin-small\">Product Highlighted<\/p>\n                            <ul class=\"uk-list cmw-list-condensed uk-margin-remove \">\n                                                            <li><a href=\"\/products\/elearning\" target=\"_blank\" >Aspire<\/a><\/li>\n                                                        <\/ul>\n                        <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"uk-margin\">\n                            <p class=\"uk-text-emphasis uk-text-bold uk-margin-small\">Additional Products<\/p>\n                            <ul class=\"uk-list cmw-list-condensed uk-margin-remove \">\n                                                            <li><a href=\"\/products\/voyager-for-affordable-housing\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Voyager Affordable Housing<\/a><\/li>\n                                                            <li><a href=\"\/products\/rentcafe-affordable\/\" target=\"_blank\" >RentCafe Affordable Housing<\/a><\/li>\n                                                            <li><a href=\"\/products\/yardi-payment-processing\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Payment Processing<\/a><\/li>\n                                                            <li><a href=\"\/products\/yardi-payscan\" target=\"_blank\" >PayScan<\/a><\/li>\n                                                            <li><\/li>\n                                                            <li><\/li>\n                                                            <li><a href=\"\/products\/resident-screening\/\" target=\"_blank\" >ScreeningWorks Pro<\/a><\/li>\n                                                        <\/ul>\n                        <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"uk-margin\">\n                                <p class=\"uk-text-emphasis uk-text-bold uk-margin-remove\">The Benefits<\/p>\n                                <p class=\"uk-margin-remove\">&#8211; More effective training through centralized planning and oversight\u00a0<br>&#8211; Personalized learning plans with standard and custom content\u00a0<br>&#8211; Solutions to the challenges of live training sessions\u00a0<\/p>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                                        <div class=\"uk-margin\">\n                            <p class=\"uk-text-emphasis uk-text-bold uk-margin-remove\">About ALCO Management, Inc.<\/p>\n                            \n                                <p class=\"uk-margin-remove\">alcomgt.com<\/p>\n\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                                <div class=\"uk-margin\">\n                            <a class=\"uk-button uk-button-default\" href=\"\/about-us\/request-information\">Request Info<\/a>\n                        <\/div>\n       \n             \n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    \n    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