At the heart of management control is group working. Any number of Business groups can be established to reflect an organisation's operating regions, divisions, functions, levels, teams etc. Business groups therefore reflect the organisation's vertical structure as this model reflects.

Each online training group can have any number of group controllers, and members, so the ABC Company group controller can also be a group controller of, for example, Divisions 1 - 3, etc, and Functions 1 - 3, etc, and also Teams 1 - 3, etc, as required. The Division 2 controller can be a controller of Functions 1 - 3, etc, and Teams 1 - 3, etc. In this illustration Team 1 therefore could have 4 controllers.

NB: group controllers, at all levels, are also online training system users in their own right.

Any number of online training sub-groups can be established to reflect an organisation's project environment, or matrix working, or specialist learning sets. Sub-groups therefore reflect the organisation's horizontal structure, for example a sub-group could consist of employees from teams in any function, and in any division.

Sub groups are best used for specific learning sets. Groups, sub-group members and group controllers are set-up by HRD Online training system controllers. Controllers could be directors, line managers, team leaders, training managers, mentors/coaches, or assigned external tutors. HRD Online training partners would be controllers of the top level (for administration purposes) and could be controllers of groups in need of blended learning solutions.

Therefore, for example Division 2 group controller could produce separate online training reports for Functions 1 - 3, etc, and separate reports for Teams 1 -3, etc, and separate reports for Division 2. See Groups

NB: For an overview of a group controller's online training facilities see Training Records