eLearning: Learn New Skills Quickly And Easily

Offering tailored training to employees at all levels

There’s no question eLearning took a giant step forward as an indispensable tool for human resources professionals to provide needed or required training and enhance skillsets for their employees during the Covid-19 pandemic. The anytime accessibility and anywhere flexibility of online platforms enabled employers to provide both optional and mandatory learning and courses remotely. As employees return to the office on a full-time or hybrid basis, the increasing acceptance, adoption, and standardization of eLearning now offers HR managers some of the most efficient, cost-effective, and customizable training and skills-building solutions possible.

Advantages of eLearning

Regardless of size or location, the ways businesses work and how they invest in their employees has changed in the wake of the pandemic. This has created new and challenging issues for HR leaders and managers, including employee resistance to return to offices after more than a year of working remotely, mandatory or optional vaccination policies, and improving training and development opportunities and execution for new and existing employees. According to Gallup, 87% of millennials say career growth and professional development are significant factors in their job decisions. The good news for HR departments is that they can address these challenges and expand their employee development programs by finding the right eLearning provider with the right learning management system to meet their needs. 

A few of the benefits an eLearning platform can provide are:

1. Ease of use. With the right eLearning platform, HR departments can create their own learning ecosystems with assets that are readily available for immediate on-the-job implementation. A key criterion in the provider selection process should be an extensive course library, which allows HR to easily customize training paths for each employee or department. Keeping everything online also makes it easier to track employee progress and course completion, as well as recommend next steps, additional training, or advanced course work.

2. Employee empowerment and loyalty. According to Harvard Business Review, organizations with a standardized onboarding process generate 62% greater new hire productivity, along with a 50% better new hire retention rate. Online learning helps ensure more standardized training processes by leveraging extensive, quality-controlled video libraries with content developed by industry and academic experts. By being able to offer employees a learning library of hard and soft-skill trainings, employees feel that their employer cares about, and has invested in, their professional development and success. 

3. Microlearning and engagement. Unlike all-day training sessions, which employees may see as a nuisance or waste of time, eLearning can provide training in short, targeted, and easily consumable packages at an employee’s convenience. This benefits the employer as well since introducing important material to employees in small doses increases information retention. With eLearning advancements in recent years, it’s easier than ever for HR to deliver high-quality, online learning content that keeps their employees focused, engaged, and on a positive and supportive career trajectory. 

Customizable Training for any Work Model

It’s important to remember that training programs aren’t one-size-fits-all, which is why it can be difficult to implement them successfully for new and current employees, or employees at different levels. One thing we learned over the past 15 months is that business changes that have been years in the making can be implemented overnight when the situation demands it. Most companies never thought they’d be able to maintain productivity in a work-from-home environment, but were pleasantly surprised to find that their employees achieved equal or even greater productivity working virtually.

Because of this, more than 70% of companies recently surveyed by Mercer, the business management consultancy, report that a blend of in-person and remote work will likely be the new normal. As more workforces leave the office behind, companies must adapt to new and evolving hybrid work models, and find the most efficient, cost-effective way to provide tailored training to their employees at all levels. The benefits that eLearning solutions offer can set training programs up for success across all departments, whether in the office, at home in pajamas, or anywhere in the world. 

Raynie Andrewsen is the Head of Quality Control for KnowledgeCity.  Visit www.knowledgecity.com