News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Sept. 4, 2020: The currently necessary social distancing norms have changed several aspects of our lives. However, as businesses are forced to make their employees work from home, as humans, we have learnt to adapt. As a result, remote teams are changing the way we think about workplaces and their necessity.
With that said, the task of migrating their operations to the web has left a number of business owners and their employees utterly confused. This is especially true for businesses and business functions that were performed either exclusively offline or were a blend of online and offline elements.
One such business function is employee training. While many businesses are disregarding its importance, employee training is one of the best things you can do for your business and your employees during the lock down.
Besides giving employees the assurance that their employer still cares about them, even as others are being laid off, employee training can turn this downtime productive, giving your business and employees a chance to come back to the office with an improved (or even brand new) set of skills.
Having said that, delivering effective online training can turn out to be a tricky undertaking, especially if you have no prior experience with the same. One of the tools that not only makes this task easier, but is an indispensable part of delivering engaging online training is a cloud LMS (Learning Management System).
However, simply investing in a cloud LMS and uploading your training content to it will not get the job done. Here are three ways you can use your learning management system to deliver effective online training to employees that are working from home:
Redesign Content For Online Deliver
Learning online is very different from learning within a classroom setting. There is no instructor, nobody to answer their queries in real time, there are a number of distractions, and employees may feel overworked and burnt out. To help your employees overcome these challenges, you need to ensure your training content is easy to consume through a screen.
To do this, you can take two major steps:
- Make use of multimedia like video lessons because they are more engaging and easier to consume when compared with written content. Most of us are used to watching videos online and training delivered in a familiar format will do much better than lengthy blocks of text.
- Deliver training in the form of short, bite-sized lessons because it is much easier to learn through a 10-minute video that focuses on a single topic/concept than to learn through a 10-page lesson that covers multiple concepts.
Using multimedia to deliver short, easy to consume, and focused lessons will help your employees power through the challenges they face while they are learning from their homes.
Make Use Of Gamification And Social Learning Features
Being confined within their homes and staring at the screen all day can quickly make your employees feel disengaged and lonely. Delivering online training is a great way to help them overcome these negative feelings.
Gamification, simply put, is the practice of adding game-like elements (eg.- point system, leaderboard, levels) to your training experience to add a hint of competition among the employees.
Social learning features, as the name suggests, allow learners to interact and learn from their peers.
Most modern cloud LMS offer these features. Using them, training administrators can effectively help their learners overcome the feeling of loneliness by engaging them with the training.
Create An Online Learning Resource Repository
If you have traditionally trained your employees in a classroom setting, they will definitely feel the challenge of not having someone answer their queries in real time. To overcome this, you can create an online repository of learning resources that serves the most common doubts and questions of learners pertaining to a specific topic.
By using training content in an interactive and easy-to-consume manner, using gamification and social learning, and giving your employees easy access to information, you can effectively replace your traditional employee training methods with an interactive online training environment.
