10 Ways an LMS Platform Sets New Hires Up for Success
Workers have more options than ever, and companies are struggling to successfully attract, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Talent acquisition and retention have become increasingly digitally dependent. Changes wrought by the global pandemic, coupled with exponentially accelerated digitization and a growing labor movement, have made the talent process harder. This is why it’s crucial for leaders to deliver a positive digital experience before, during, and after the new-hire onboarding process.
To successfully meet the hiring, training, upskilling, and retention needs of remote and hybrid workforces, companies are increasingly seeking to gain a digital-first advantage with investment in the latest technologies and platforms. A next-generation digital LMS (learning management system) delivers positive digital experiences that set up new hires for success.
In this piece, we’ll look at how deploying the ExpertusONE next-generation digital LMS software gives companies ten ways to increase engagement, fuel high performance, and promote retention in an ever more competitive talent economy.
10 Ways to Leverage an LMS to Set Employees Up for Success
1. Meet new hires on their home turf with extensible apps.
Onboarding poses all of its challenges without the additional burden of new hires navigating a new platform. The ExpertusONE digital LMS includes extensible apps for Slack, Salesforce, and Microsoft teams that make it easy to onboard new hires on their home turf, be that on the Slack LMS integration, Salesforce LMS integration, or Microsoft teams. New hires get off to a secure, positive start by accessing resources, learning assets, training materials, and more via a platform with which they’re already familiar and comfortable.
2. Consolidate and distribute onboarding courses within one location.
The ExpertusONE digital LMS houses a wealth of features and functionalities that provide a centralized, intuitive platform for all your onboarding, training, and development needs. For example, the Digital Content Player delivers a cohesive training experience rather than forcing new hires to download PDFs, open pop-up windows, or exit the platform to take surveys. The ExpertusONE LMS Digital Content Player consolidates and distributes all training media — audio presentations, videos, quizzes surveys, and so forth — from one lightbox window in the LMS. This makes for a far friendlier and frictionless learning experience than any legacy LMS can offer.
3. Provide multiple training modalities with integrated video-conferencing.
Forget the expense and hassle of investing in an external platform. ExpertusONE has built-in LMS video-conferencing right into the LMS with its integrative Meetings features. It makes it just as easy and cost-effective to conduct one-on-one coaching sessions as it is to deliver pre-recorded training modules.
4. Introduce some healthy competition.
Delivering positive digital experiences means introducing an element of fun into onboarding. ExpertusONE makes it easy to do this with LMS gamification features that make the most of healthy competition, incentivizing new hires to set goals and enjoy the challenge of meeting them. Gamification is also a great way to connect new hires to other team or department members, tie learning objectives to organizational initiatives or corporate goals, and provide recognition for course completion or exceptional performance.
5. Get visibility into new hires’ training needs.
New hires and their managers can use the ExpertusONE Observation Checklist in different ways. For new hires, the skills checklist provides a basis for self-assessing their existing skillset, helping them to know where they stand and what learning pathways may be in store. For managers, the observation checklist lets them assess new hires’ progress and performance to establish baselines for development and advancement. This provides insights into how they’re faring (and the impression they’re forming) and enables the identification of those who can be best served by further training or from a shift in training focus.
6. Make it simple for new hires to index their certifications and highlight their skills.
Even before new hires begin the onboarding process, their digital experience with your company is well underway, and the more positive they are, the better. ExpertusONE’s ONE-Profile Card is a QR-code-based solution for remote credentialing that makes it simple for applicants to quickly and securely submit and share credentials, certifications, and other verification assets. The solution is integrated with the LMS platform for easy access across multiple contexts. It also includes tools that ensure credentials and certifications remain active by alerting managers to pending expiration dates and the need for renewal.
7. Reach out to check in, offer support, or follow up.
The ExpertusONE digital LMS provides features that let managers reach out directly to new hires to check in, offer support, and follow up to ensure that onboarding is going successfully and that training deadlines are met. Managers can also set course deadlines and overdue statuses that, when the time comes, automatically send notifications and updates to team members when a training deadline is upcoming or past due. These notifications are automated, which removes the administrative burden from managers while ensuring that team members are kept on track.
8. Match the right hires to the right training courses.
ExpertusONE’s AI-driven platform leverages machine learning to match the right hires with the right employee training courses based on a broad rubric of data points. This sets new hires up for success by ensuring they’re enrolled only in relevant courses ideally suited to their needs, roles, learning styles, and more. Personalized learning pathways more effectively harness new hires’ natural learning flows to foster higher levels of engagement, superior learning outcomes, and enhanced opportunities for personal growth and professional advancement alike.
9. Give new hires flexible options.
The ExpertusONE desktop platform is seamlessly available via its mobile LMS app. It gives new hires the flexibility to access and engage with the learning system when, where, and how they prefer. Whether from a park bench, the line in the supermarket, or their living room sofa, new hires can take advantage of onboarding resources and training materials whenever the impulse strikes.
10. Confirm that new hires are getting the most out of their onboarding process.
ExpertusONE’s Interaction Studio feature lets companies rapidly develop and deliver on-demand, xAPI-compliant, interactive mini-modules — no complex monitoring tools required. Companies that take advantage of this feature set new hires up for success by enhancing engagement, deepening internalization of key concepts, increasing knowledge retention, and providing an overwhelmingly positive digital experience. The ExpertusONE enterprise LMS platform provides multiple tools for confirming that learners are getting the most out of the onboarding process and that training materials are being effectively utilized and actionably applied. The rapid LMS authoring tool does this by capturing all learning data and making it easy to find, record, review, analyze, track, test, and manage all learning experiences.
Ready to set new hires up for success?
ExpertusONE’s next-generational digital LMS apps can help companies deliver an outstanding digital experience to enhance engagement, incentivize high performance, fuel development, and promote retention in an increasingly competitive talent economy. If you’d like to learn more about how ExpertusONE can help you set new hires up for success, schedule your free demo of our award-winning digital learning platform today.
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