Improve your L&D Experience with Continuous Corporate Training

#See how the new models on continuous eLearning can help improve your corporate training strategy and boost the overall training impact

Continuous training delivery catalyzes your business goals in today's competitive world as you train your workforce to engage, upskill, and evolve.

In the current world, self-paced eLearning is one of the significant transformations in everyone's lives. Incorporated with corporate training, this effective approach enables people to learn at their own pace of time and convenience and on the mobile device of their choice. Do you know how self-directed learning can be optimized for corporate workforce training? How does this aid employees to grow and upskill? Here is new data shown by the HR analysis firm The Fosway Group on continuous learning models. You can analyze how the current landscape of self-paced continuous learning looks like, how much it is effective, and what measures can be taken to shift the paradigm.

Current Models of Continuous Learning- What are the Challenges?

As per the Fosway research, many workplaces rely on what’s known as the 70:20:10 strategy for helping employees grow in the workplace. This strategy dictates that 70% of a learner’s growth is achieved through challenging assignments, 20% through developmental relationships, and the final 10% through coursework and training. Fosway says this data puts an onus on corporate managers responsible for an employee's development by giving challenging tasks and developmental relationships.

As per ‘The Association for Talent Development, a bare 15% of business leaders were satisfied with the way their managers were helping learners in the field improve their skills. However, putting the entire responsibility on an employee to drive their learning and development does not solve this issue either. Fosway argues that there is a need to provide relevant corporate training to employees to equip the right skills, improve their development, and support to sustain the overall learning experience. The research report by Fosway’s Digital Learning Realities indicates the following data:

• More than 55% of companies surveyed fail to measure learning progress consistently

• Less than one-third of companies support employees applying their learning in the workplace

• Less than one-third of companies try to sustain employee learning

• Only 26% adopt multi-channel learning on a more than “frequent” basis

• A whopping 60% fail to take measures to drive mastery and expertise of new skills

Based on the Fosway report on continuous learning, "At the point where employees need help the most as learners – when they need to apply what they have learned and turn it into reality – they are all too often abandoned."

So, how to address these problems?

Utilizing New Learning Models

Fosway also adds that more time should be invested in leadership development: educating managers on how to become better coaches, capable of handling employee development and helping them to master new workplace skills. It is essential to make learning more social, allowing employees to leverage real-world opportunities to use their on-the-job skills and retain that knowledge for long, thus avoiding the consequences of “Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve.”

You can read the full report on the eight “catalysts for social learning” that enable learners to find a different way to learn new skills and sustain their knowledge for long. Despite its great training effectiveness, social learning is not fully adopted by organizations as only 4% of companies surveyed incorporate this corporate training strategy to improve their L&D programs. Social learning is not merely a nice-to-have approach, but L&D leaders must adopt this strategy to design and deliver continuous eLearning programs. This approach can cater to varied training goals- be it new employee onboarding, product knowledge training, customer service training, etc.

Do you want to explore more about continuous learning strategies that drive long-term employee development? Fosway has associated with Infopro Learning to make their report ‘Continuous Learning Experiences: Harnessing People Power to Energize the Learning Cycle’ available for download. This report can guide you further on developing continuous learning programs by combining custom eLearning tools, employee mentorship, and effective application of knowledge.

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