Annual Training Course Time: If Employees Are Less Than Enthusiastic...

Your corporate training sessions may need a re-Orchestration.  

Most employees perceive corporate training of any  kind as a waste of time.  Worse, recent Adult Learning studies show that nearly 70% of traditional eLearning content is forgotten 3 days after the training session.  No company would knowingly invest in an opportunity with such poor return, yet most continue to fund rewrites and updates of eLearning courses that deliver no return. 

How can employees become re-engaged in corporate training?    Here are 3 steps most corporate Learning and Development Managers agree are the keys to success: 

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• Today's workforce is characterized by longer worklife spans and shorter job tenures, so skills building as the focus of discretionary training will attract the best talent to the organization.   For courses that are not company-wide compliance requirements (sexual harassment, physical safety, etc.,) involve the employees.  Ask them what they like and don't like, what they see as valuable in the course content and what they don't. Ask them  what is missing from the content they need and build it in.  Keep them in the loop and listen to their input
• See if you can give employees a choice about what training to take. If there are ways to make the course relevant to various job types, you may need different versions of the same course, one for each job path/learner type.   Keeping the employees in the review/update loop will be critical to their continued engagement
• Instead of tying up employees for hours on lengthy, dull, online courses, convert your traditional eLearning courses into bite-sized Mobile Microlearning campaigns that move into the normal workflow for just a few minutes a day, on mobile.  The Maestros of Microlearning can re-orchestrate your traditional training courses using Microlearning methodology, which adds engaging features and works like the human brain learns.  You won't believe your KPIs.  

Mobile Microlearning:  It's knowledge retention you can actually see.