Digital Learning Without the Bloat: How can you make E-Learning Actually Stick?
Have you ever told your staff to complete an off-the-shelf digital learning package? It’s a super easy way to ensure you’ve given them some training hours.
And you’re right offer regular training and development. Without investing in staff training, your business can fall behind, become less productive and fail to realise its potential.
However, the way in which we do business is evolving rapidly. To keep up, you need to offer training that’s up to date and relevant to your business NOW.
So an off-the-shelf digital training package is probably the wrong way to go about things.
Why? Because generic content has been shown to disengage learners. It falls short of meeting organisational goals and repeatedly fails to deliver a return on your investment.
What is the Solution for Digital Learning?
Our best advice from our experience over the years is bespoke digital learning solutions. They’re:
- Tailored to deliver maximum impact by aligning precisely with your business’s learning management systems.
- Designed to fit seamlessly into your operational calendar.
- Delivered against your distinct business goals.
You’re not aiming to simply tick attendance. You want a sustainable effect from the learning going forward. Something that visibly increases your ROI.
Far from disengaging your teams, bespoke digital learning is more engaging, more effective and able to align learning outcomes with your organisational targets.
So, you need to partner with a training firm that tailors your digital learning packages to meet the unique needs of your business and your people.
This significantly enhances your return on investment and helps your teams meet the evolving needs of future changes in the marketplace. The skills learnt in training will be relevant to you and your business.
How Do Bespoke Digital Learning Solutions Work?
When the bespoke learning solutions match your individual business needs, learners feel immediately connected to the training. They recognise the situations and challenges as ones they’re already familiar with and long to overcome!
Sadly, generic learning packages arrive as one large bundle. But bespoke solutions break the content into manageable chunks that align with your programme of work and fit around corporate milestones.
Moreover, you can arrange to deliver training at the moment your staff are most ready to absorb and apply it. For example, when specific challenges arrive.
Generic training pre-exists and will often lag behind current business needs.
That’s because designers have created it long before business needs evolve, which can leave your staff feeling they’ve wasted their time. Worse, you’ve wasted your training budget!
Here are some other benefits of bespoke digital learning and e-training packages.
With bespoke training, you can update content quickly to match your changing business needs, respond to staff and customer feedback, support new product launches, and stay ahead of regulatory updates.
You also set the success criteria. With bespoke digital learning, you’re in control, specifying what you want the training to achieve and how you will measure success.
This control means that you can precisely align the learning outcomes to your business’ KPIs. You can also continually refine and improve the training package so it evolves at the same pace as your operational delivery.
And finally, tailoring your training solution allows it to reflect your organisational values. It delivers a strong cultural fit so your employees feel a sense of familiarity.
This builds credibility and trust and leads to greater engagement and a stronger learning culture.
How to Achieve a Tailored Digital Learning Solution
At Keystone, our priority is to partner with you and match the training to your exact needs. This is how we deliver a return on your investment.
So – if tailored digital learning like this sounds like the solution your business has been looking for, please speak to our experienced team today. We’d love to work with you to revolutionise your e-learning and improve your operational outcomes. Let’s talk.
Esther Patrick is a Client Accounts Director at Keystone and a member of the Senior Leadership Team. An experienced consultant and management author, she has nearly 20 years’ experience leading client partnerships across sectors from construction to healthcare and designing leadership, culture, and team development programmes aligned with their strategic goals and values. Esther is passionate about creative, human-centred learning.
