From outsourcing to onboarding and developing your workforce, you need technology made for the modern world. No longer can you expect that everyone working on a given project or initiative will be able to come in-house for each stage of the process—your resources may be spread across the state, country, or even across the globe, and, unless you have the right instructional strategies in place, you’ll struggle to get everyone up to speed and on the same page to do their collective best work.
When some or most of your staff is remote, or if you’d like to offer that same opportunity to potential applicants to attract the best talent, you need an innovative eLearning solution that amplifies the capabilities of your most valuable asset: your people.
No matter what industry or field you’re in, knowledge is power, and that power can put you ahead of your competitors if you take the time to enable the training and development that gets the best out of everyone.
What Is the Value of eLearning?
First and foremost, innovative eLearning solutions and instructional strategies will help save your company money during onboarding, working with contractors, or when it comes to the dissemination of valuable information throughout your company. It can also help reduce the lost time and productivity black holes from typical “training days” and other associated costs, which even makes it beneficial for your employees.
Beyond the benefit to your company, comprehensive instructional strategies can increase employee retention across most topics by using highly interactive and interesting content that leverages gamification, videos, and other rich content to ensure that everything being shared is both understood and put into action by your workers. That means relying less on reference materials (though this is another area where eLearning shines) and no need to cover the same information twice, which equals more attentive workers and an increase in the quality of their work.
For companies that would like to offer the possibility of remote work but that don’t know where to start, an innovative eLearning solution can give you the peace of mind you need to make the switch.
Most employers cite productivity issues as the biggest roadblock to remote work, but when you see how modern instructional strategies can help you train and onboard the best candidates for the job, the benefit easily outweighs any perceived cost.
eLearning also helps your workforce collaborate online in ways that they would never be able to otherwise. That’s because in person, you’d have to physically bring everyone together to disseminate information, and social pressures prevent most from giving you real and honest feedback. Offering asynchronous online learning gives everyone the chance to participate and a safe place to speak up if they have an insight or issue to share.
When it comes to the modern-day workplace, your employees’ ideal lifestyle looks a lot different than the traditional “everyone in the office from nine to five.” Employees that have flexibility and power over their day are happier employees, and happier employees are more prone to do better work and be more engaged.
The best part is that innovative eLearning solutions are easily scalable to suit the size of any workforce, which is more than we can say for in-person training solutions, which are often difficult to scale both up and down.
Did you know that the use of digital learning tools has more than doubled in the last 10 years? As per the Learner Intelligence Report, 2020 saw digital jump further with spikes in eLearning courses, live online learning such as webinars, and the use of online performance support tools.
Reports indicate that eLearning:
- Assisted over 40% of American enterprises to increase their incomes
- Improves learner retention up to 60%, versus 8% for in-person training
- Enhances productivity by 25% and engagement by 18%
Whether it is to deliver training rapidly and consistently, to make training adaptable and customizable, or to easily deploy and maintain learning and development efforts, innovative eLearning solutions and sound instructional strategies can propel your organization forward.
Contact our custom solutions team to learn how we can help your organization succeed.
