Facilitating A Culture Of Curiosity And Learning
Learning workplace cultures are crucial to employee development
Posted on 06-07-2018, Read Time: - Min
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While many organizations may talk about ongoing learning as part of their company culture, developing a culture of curiosity and engagement takes work. It happens when an organization makes ongoing training and development a priority, and companies with learning cultures are rewarded with nearly 100 percent loyalty and engagement from their employees, according to a recent study by Instructure.
Learning workplace cultures are crucial to employee development, and there are many reasons to cultivate them, including:
Fortunately, technology can empower companies to provide development opportunities through e-learning.
Ironically, soft skills are the hardest to train for. How do you go about training for problem-solving, collaboration, and even empathy? While teaching soft skills a classroom setting could be awkward at best, assigning career training on these topics via e-learning allows you to combine the personal, one-on-one feel of an in-person session with the added benefits of scalability and reporting.
Workers aren’t the only ones who will learn from e-learning, however. With robust reporting features, learning and engagement platforms can inform which courses are working, where employees are getting stuck, and other high-value intel that will inform even more effective training in the future.
Learning workplace cultures are crucial to employee development, and there are many reasons to cultivate them, including:
- Talent pools with different priorities - in a recent study, millennials ranked training and development 300 percent higher than cash bonuses.
- More job hopping, shorter tenures- young workers are staying at jobs for less than three years on average, meaning having an expert in one field today doesn’t mean he or she will be there tomorrow.
- Skills gaps in the workplace - from technology advancing quickly to recent grads not being fully prepared for the real world, there are many skills that companies have a hard time hiring for.
- Baby boomers retiring - as older workers retire, more millennials will need to be trained for management positions.
Fortunately, technology can empower companies to provide development opportunities through e-learning.
Prioritizing a Learning Culture
Some effective ways to offer the ongoing learning and development is through an online learning platform, sometimes called a learning management software, or learning management system (LMS). By developing and deploying all employee training in a cloud-based application, training can be performed just about anywhere, on laptops, desktops, tablets, or smartphones.
E-Learning doesn’t have to be Complicated
Implementing an e-learning program for employees doesn’t have to be daunting. And fortunately, not every course will need to be created from scratch. Here’s why:
- Many LMSs come pre-loaded with courses on popular topics that can easily be modified to suit your needs.
- Lynda.com and OpenSesame have thousands of courses that can easily be added to your learning management system for an instantly robust online library.
- E-learning platforms are designed to be easy enough for users to create a course in a matter of minutes.
Ironically, soft skills are the hardest to train for. How do you go about training for problem-solving, collaboration, and even empathy? While teaching soft skills a classroom setting could be awkward at best, assigning career training on these topics via e-learning allows you to combine the personal, one-on-one feel of an in-person session with the added benefits of scalability and reporting.
Workers aren’t the only ones who will learn from e-learning, however. With robust reporting features, learning and engagement platforms can inform which courses are working, where employees are getting stuck, and other high-value intel that will inform even more effective training in the future.
Encourage Social Learning with Online Career Training
While some informal learning may happen around the water cooler, human resource and learning and development professionals can do a lot to facilitate social, interactive learning in their corporate training. Look for a corporate training software solution that enables peer-to-peer learning through comments and feedback on courses and videos. When learners can see what others are asking at a certain point in the video, they are more apt to pay attention and may even reply with some brilliant insight that drives the key message home for other learners.
Stay the Course
As company leaders consider how to create a learning culture, and make the decision to leverage technology to do the trick, they should consider an e-learning software solution that provides the flexibility, scalability and ease of use. Transforming any company into one that provides the career training workers require won’t happen overnight. But, it will be well worth the effort when it comes to engagement and productivity.
Author Bio
| Matt Bingham is VP of Product Innovation at Bridge by Instructure. Connect Matt Bingham Follow @MattWentToWork |
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