Firstly what is an LMS?
1. Invest in Your People
The greatest investment you can make is in the development of your people both personally and professionally. Your employees are your first and most important clients. When you invest in their personal development, it communicates, “we value you”! Companies that invest in an LMS, communicate to their employees you matter to us, and we take your T&D serious.
2. Aligns people with the Vision and Values
To build a healthy culture in any organization, the employees need to be aligned with the Vision and the Values. An LMS helps re-enforce the vision and values of the organization by infusing training with specific topics that will highlight essential DNA.
3. Clear Career Path and Engagement
4. Customize Training
One of the latest moves in T&D is for “Organizational Universities”. Business needs to take ownership of their training, thus creating custom solutions to suit their specific training needs. An LMS allows businesses to create their own ‘in-house’ content that speaks their own unique language.
5. Supports the Business Strategy
Like all great HR strategies, an LMS supports the business strategy. An LMS aligns all your people with where you want to take the business and empowers your people to get there. Staying agile and moving into new markets will require that you quickly upskill your talent with the right skills and competencies.
6. Measure Performance
7. Attracting, Recruit and Retain Top Talent
Most ‘Top Talent’ want to know how you will up-skill them? Why would I work for you and not for the company down the road? Great T&D goes a long way to attract Top Talent as Top Talent are serious about their’ development and growth.
8. Knowledge and Content Management
Institutional knowledge is often trapped in someone’s head or in a document ‘somewhere’ that no one knows where to find? Or what do you do when the person who ‘knows it all’ leaves the business? Or how do you keep your information up to date? An LMS helps by pooling the wisdom or best practises of each department, and the sharing of valuable information between employees empowers everyone at all levels. Content is stored in the cloud, and everyone knows where to go to get the latest up to date information.
9. Time-Saving & Flipping the Classroom
How much time is spent gathering the staff (like herding cats) and driving or walking to the training venue? Then the site must be set up, and the trainer must be on form to delivery an entertaining performance. I am not saying there is not a place for live training. What I am saying is that by using an LMS, you can flip the classroom. Half the training time and double the time for practical application and collaborative learning time. Time spent in live training should be focused on the practical application; Q&A and teamwork activities.
10. Blended Learning
A single learning approach does not work for all. An LMS helps you mix up the learning approach from Videos, Discussions, Surveys, Readers, Quizzes, Assignments and ILT (Instructor Lead Training). You can be creative as you want and keep your learners engaged.
In Conclusion
Are you struggling to find time to do T&D? Are your methods outdated and information scattered with no means of measuring the results? Take the pain and struggle out of T&D and discover the power of using an effective LMS. The results will surprise you!
