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Picture the following scenario: it\u2019s early on a Friday morning and you usher your work team into the conference room for their quarterly group training activity. Your team seems low energy and not terribly committed to your presentation. You wonder to yourself, \u201chow can I improve my team\u2019s engagement\u2026 how can I get them to absorb this important information?\u201d Meanwhile, your team members are probably thinking something along the lines of, \u201cI wonder where I should go out to eat with my friends over the weekend\u2026\u201d Sound familiar? We\u2019ve all been there. Luckily, there are ways to change up your employee training that can successfully engage your team. Part of that has to do with integrating eLearning<\/a> into your workplace training sessions.<\/p>\n Regularly enhancing and improving employee training exercises is essential. Training for your employees is beneficial to both your company and your employees for many reasons<\/a>. For example, regular training encourages improved employee performance, increased engagement, and fosters employee retention and growth. Additionally, they help create happier customers, address internal weakness, and help track and manage employee skills. If you are someone who has found yourself making excuses and putting off updating your employee training methods, you may want to consider some of the harms that you could be doing to your organization and how you can put a stop to it. Do not be a contributing factor to the staggering statistic that organizations are losing $13.5 million<\/a> per year due to ineffective employee training.<\/p>\n Why Your Organization Should be Engaging in Regular Employee Training <\/strong><\/p>\n A common misconception about employee training is that employees will take the skills that they learn on your organization\u2019s dime and then leave the organization<\/a> for other work opportunities, making the money you spent on developing employee skills ultimately useless. However, research has shown that employees who are appreciated will stay<\/a> in their current jobs. So, as a manager, you have to decide whether or not you want to invest in your employees. What you should keep in mind is that investing in your employees<\/a> means investing in your organization\u2019s future. Sure, such investments are a risk\u2014but what investments aren\u2019t? The best you can do is make sure that your risks are calculated. Investing in your employees with carefully crafted training and educational advancements is a calculated move to guide your company towards success.<\/p>\n Research has shown<\/a> that companies that invest $1,500 or more per year on employee training average 24 percent higher profit margins. Additionally, companies that routinely offer comprehensive training have a 218 percent higher overall income per employee than those companies that forego staying on top of regularly providing skills and educational courses for their employees to engage in.<\/p>\n Remember, employee development courses can only be considered a good investment if you are mindful about how effective and engaging such courses will be. Consider the following ways that investing in your employees\u2019 development will benefit you<\/a>:<\/p>\n Embrace the Future with Online Learning Engagements<\/strong><\/p>\n Recently, Amazon announced plans<\/a> to rework their employee training by focusing on automation and technological advancements, citing the changing American workforce of today\u2019s world and will take training fully into the digital world. The goal<\/a> of this employee training revamp is to bring Amazon\u2019s employees to the absolute forefront of the digital world. Now, you do not have to feel pressured to take an Amazon-level leap with your employee training and education efforts. After all, you may not have a spare $700 million laying around to invest in such programs. However, Amazon\u2019s move should serve as an inspiration to you as you consider how to tailor your future training programs to be better suited to rapidly changing technologies.<\/p>\n You can start with considering integrating eLearning into your workplace. ELearning has become a necessary tool for education courses and workplace training. It is rapidly expanding from college courses, to continuing education courses for professionals and to employee training courses. The global eLearning market<\/a> is projected to reach $325 billion by 2025 (Research and Markets) from $107 billion in 2015 (Forbes). It is important to avoid accidentally alienating your company and your employees by missing out on this booming sector for educational opportunities.<\/p>\n The companies that stay on top of technological advancements are the successful ones<\/a> because they stay up-to-date with current trends, they have increased employee focus and dedication with less of a need for manager supervision, they maintain a better bottom-line, and their company successes attract top talent. Taking your employee training materials online is a great way to begin to work towards being an organization that embodies each of these traits.<\/p>\n The Benefits of Online Training<\/strong><\/p>\n How to Improve Your Current Training <\/strong><\/p>\n 87 percent<\/a> of millennials in the workforce say that professional development in their current jobs is very important to them. With so many millennials, and now Gen Z individuals, dominating the workforce, it is increasingly important to consider the implications of a tech-savvy work environment.<\/p>\n The best and most measurable way to improve your current employee training methods is to take it online. Here are some areas of employee training that you might want to consider taking online:<\/p>\n Next Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n Provide only the best training courses for your employees. They deserve it. In order to get started, trust in your ability to find the best way to engage with your employees and uplift them with educational tools and training materials. Remember, when you invest in your employees, you are investing in the long-term success of your organization.<\/p>\n If you\u2019d like to know more, KnowledgeCity<\/a> has a wide variety of training materials available including a library of preexisting training courses. You can engage with these videos when you need something specific or wish to add on to your existing training materials. If developing your own courses is more your style, engage with your creative side and get your training materials integrated into an online format with the Custom Course Creation <\/a>services provided by KnowledgeCity. If you want to develop your capacities as a leader who keeps up with their employees\u2019 training advancements, the Learning Management System<\/a> can help. Regardless of how you choose to get started, now is the time to keep up with the rapid developments of the technology world and how they are affecting our workplaces and employee training dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Picture the following scenario: it\u2019s early on a Friday morning and you usher your work team into the conference room for their quarterly group training activity….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[4001,120],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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