5 Ways to Boost your Corporate Training Experiences

#Exploring five significant ways of content development that help organizations drive the overall impact of corporate training through improved engagement and retention.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for quality-driven learning and development programs is rising. There has been a rising shift towards digital transformation, which has made organizations change and adapt to the new environment. Most employees work from home, so organizations have also adopted a remote-first policy and changed their guidelines and services to deliver a better client experience. A massive part of workforce engagement, upskilling, and productivity depends on how well employees are trained virtually. Companies need to provide personalized corporate training experience which enables employees to engage and upskill at work.

Several ways can be followed to improve the overall training experience.

• Create Mobile-first Learning Content

With the increasing shift towards remote work culture, most organizations adopt a mobile-first approach to drive training impact. Training content available across multiple mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets makes it easier for every employee to learn anytime and anywhere. As a result, this improves overall accessibility and gives flexibility to employees in the way they want to consume information.

• Update Training Content Structure

Another important way to improve the training effectiveness is by updating the existing content structure. The new-age workforce has concise time spans and has diverse learning styles and habits. Finding time for training from a busy work schedule may also be a challenge. Chunking content as short videos, mini-games, or interactive quizzes can make learning more engaging. This eLearning strategy is called microlearning. As per the research, microlearning can significantly increase knowledge retention levels (1).

Microlearning helps update the simple content structure and convert it into more personalized and short-duration courses. Microlearning also helps reduce information overload as learners can choose one topic at a time and retain knowledge for longer. This also enables learners to undergo training during workflow without wasting much time and effort, unlike lengthy training modules.

• Align Training Courses with the Business Needs

A common mistake that L&D teams make when it comes to creating training content is they develop high-quality content that does not align with the business needs. Even if you have developed the best courses, if they do not align with the suitable business needs, they may not help improve the business efficiency or employee productivity.

Align every training piece in a way that supports a specific business goal. For instance, customer service training designed to improve customer satisfaction may also be a sales enablement program to equip salespersons with the right skills and knowledge to sell more products and drive customer satisfaction.

• Incorporate Social Learning

The new work from the home policy has made employees feel disconnected from their office colleagues. As per LinkedIn’s Workplace Learning Report for 2021, learners are more engaged when they learn together. Learners who used social features such as chat and social sharing elements watched thirty times more learning content than those who did not(2).

Companies may also incorporate other social collaboration elements such as Virtual Instructor-led Training, Gamification, and Chat to enable learners to become more social and engage more with their peers.

• Utilize Different Training Methods

Another way to improve the overall training impact is by integrating methods that provide better context around relevant topics. This is done in multiple ways, and creating scenario-based training modules is one of the popular ways.

Incorporating scenarios into learning modules creates an interactive storytelling scenario where learners can learn by practicing real-life situations. This also mitigates the risks involved and enables learners to hone their skills in a risk-free environment.

Conclusion

Adopting the right content development strategy can help optimize the training effectiveness and unlock business success. Watch the webinar replay on From Surviving to thriving: Overcoming Today’s Digital Learning Challenges to know more about effective corporate training strategies that improve business resilience.

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