5 Reasons Why a Digital LMS Platform Is Key to Employee Engagement in the New Year

As we head into this new year, companies are revamping everything from their marketing strategies to how they manage talent search. It’s an understatement to say that the last two years have impacted businesses significantly. The last two years have transformed how we work and live. But these changes are for the better. We’ve moved toward empathetic leadership models, and more flexible working styles, and we’ve optimized digital tools along the way to serve our needs as workers, managers, and corporate leaders.

Companies are moving into a new era of business, and we will witness additional changes as companies settle into this new mindset about work.

A digital LMS platform can help ease the transition to this more flexible, empathetic, and efficient work model companies are adopting. Through training technology and thoughtful digital course selections, companies can share new cultural values in their work environments, dispense important information, and provide opportunities for engagement at work.

Investing in a digital LMS platform is the first step to a successful year because every leader needs access to the right tools in order to achieve their goals. A digital LMS platform not only supports learning and training goals but can also support support retention, engagement, and growth.

Here are five reasons why a digital LMS platform will set you up for success in the new year.

Streamline Workflows With Training Tools

There’s no question that workflows are more complex than ever before. In our remote and hybrid workstyles, each employee often communicates differently, utilizing a variety of digital tools, or is overloaded by notifications. In fact, studies have shown that the number of required tech platforms or tools used in an office has increased in the last year. Companies have embraced digital transformation and brought on more systems and platforms to manage workflows.

But this produced a challenge for workers and managers alike: an overwhelming number of new tech tools and communication platforms has made corresponding with colleagues more challenging. Even further, project management can feel more complex when teams are working from different locations.

Digital LMS software can help companies streamline workflows and mitigate the confusion (or notification overload) that comes with the introduction of digitalized platforms. For example, company leaders could create a best practices course for employees to take at the start of the year—a course that covers communication standards, how to manage projects, and expectations around work deadlines. ExpertusONE’s digital LMS platform integrates with commonly used workplace apps like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Salesforce to help employees manage platform and notification overload. They can take courses within the applications they already use daily, which streamlines their learning experience.

Allow Employees to Explore Career Paths

The pandemic made many employees feel restless. Some employees even quit longtime jobs or shifted industries altogether because they felt dissatisfied at work. Now, the race to attract and maintain talent is on, and companies must adapt. One of the best ways a company can support its prospective and existing employees in this time of job reconsideration is to offer them opportunities to explore potential career paths within the company itself. This could mean exploring opportunities for promotion, looking into other opportunities within the company, or switching departments altogether.

A digital LMS platform can help keep employees engaged and satisfied at work because managers can set up course catalogs that allow team members to explore opportunities within the company. The course catalog could include new certification courses or a set of classes that, once completed, lead to promotion. A digital LMS platform makes this accessible for every employee, no matter where they are working so that they can explore career opportunities on their own time.

Track Compliance and Set Realistic Learning Goals

It’s easy for leaders to set lofty goals at the beginning of the year that are left unfilled by the fourth quarter. To combat this issue, managers and leaders need accurate data about their teams’ performance so that they can set realistic goals for the new year. In the world of corporate learning and development, this means that managers must track compliance and set goals based on data. With ExpertusONE’s enterprise learning platform, managers can easily track compliance rates for each team or individual employee. Within the platform, they can click a button and quickly follow up with a team member about a course that hasn’t been completed or a training goal that hasn’t been reached.

With accurate and precise LMS data analytics, managers are empowered to set new goals knowing that they are realistic and achievable. Similarly, learners are supported by a data-backed training strategy because they won’t be overloaded with unrealistic training expectations.

Use a digital LMS platform to manage compliance and collect detailed reports about employee engagement, compliance rates, and overall learning goals. As you set out in the new year, your company’s training goals will feel more precise and less like a shot in the dark.

Facilitate Employee Engagement from the Start

Employee engagement is tricky in our increasingly remote and hybrid workforce. In-office camaraderie is more challenging to facilitate when team members aren’t in the same room. However, engagement is a critical component of employee satisfaction. Companies can use digital LMS platforms to encourage engagement by making learning interesting. A digital LMS platform offers a more interesting learning experience than outdated learning platforms. With digital LMS systems, employees can take quizzes, ask questions about course information via video conferencing, or watch training videos about a particular topic.

ExpertusONE’s digital LMS offers gamification that brings a healthy sense of competition to the working environment (and thus encourages engagement). Employees’ achievements show up on a leaderboard for others in the organization to see. Implementing an enterprise LMS platform in the new year can help boost engagement rates and set employees up for a successful year by encouraging healthy competition and camaraderie in the office.

Customize the Learning Experience Automatically

Across industries, people are interested in personalization. Whether it’s personalized shopping recommendations or dining experiences, people want to know that the product or service they are interacting with is tailored to their needs. With a digital LMS platform, companies can offer a personalized learning experience that caters to each employee’s interests. For example, ExpertusONE’s digital LMS platform uses artificial intelligence to recommend courses to each learner based on their unique interests. One employee’s course selection could look totally different from another team members’ course recommendations. The platform uses AI to pull information from the employee’s job description, the courses they’ve taken, courses their peers have taken, and their personal interests to select a new set of courses that the employee might be interested in.

The process of customization is automatic thanks to AI, meaning that learning managers don’t have to spend any extra time hand-picking courses for each employee—but they still get the benefit of a personalized learning experience.

A digital LMS platform can help your company succeed in the new year because it is a flexible tool that meets the needs of employees, managers, and company leaders. The working world has been challenged by plenty of changes in the last few years, and companies need digital tools to support them as they adapt, change, and transform how they do business.

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