WorkPlan shares ways to use our Collaborative LMS, WorkPlan Learning, for training.
There are many forms of employee training and keeping track of it can be difficult. Using a collaborative Learning Management System (LMS) for training, like WorkPlan Learning, can help streamline the process and keep everything in one place.
Types of employee training
Before we dive into ways to level up training in your business. We’ll outline some of the common types of training we see people using WorkPlan Learning to complete:
Employee onboarding & orientation
Employee onboarding helps new recruits become familiar with their roles and the company culture to help them settle in and integrate with the organisation comfortably. This is the time to give employees access to the company policies, organisation structure, workplace health and safety, etc.
Safety training
Safety training helps minimise the risk of workplace injury mainly in industries that have manual labour. Safety training can also include lockdown and evacuation drills, best practices for workplace safety, etc.
Sales training
Sales training allows staff who are the first point of contact with customers or clients. to upskill in selling strategies, sales pitches, your business sales processes, etc.
Product training
Staff cannot sell unless they’re acquainted with the products they’re selling. This type of training is individual to each business and is usually created in-house.
Technical skills training
Upskilling your employees so that they’re proficient in using various technologies is essential to an employee’s productivity and success within a business. Technical skills training ensures your employees meet the expected level of technical competence.
Team Training
Team training aims to foster beneficial relationships among co-workers. Training is conducted in teams and helps to improve procedural knowledge and taskwork proficiency, and even helps to develop soft skills like interpersonal skills, communication, and teamwork.
Soft skills training
Soft skills training can overlap with Team Training. The aim is to improve employee soft skills such as communication, interpersonal skills, problem-solving, and teamwork.
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) training
DEI training is to help employees become more aware and empathetic towards cultural and social differences. The aim is to create a comfortable working environment for all employees through education. This training is usually outsourced unless there is someone in-house with the knowledge to educate. With your subscription to WorkPlan Learning, you gain access to over 130 different courses.
How to use WorkPlan eLearning Collaborative LMS for training
1. Collaborative Portfolio
WorkPlan can be used as a collaborative portfolio for employees to create and share ideas, skills, and knowledge with their teams or across the company. This allows knowledge to be passed around the organisation and enables employees to upskill in different areas.
2. Manager-generated content
WorkPlan gives managers the power to create custom and highly relevant courses for their teams.
The ability to easily create and share content in-house reduces course production costs and allows experienced employees to create content, such as product or quality assurance training videos.
3. Assessment
The integrated quizzes allow learners to test their knowledge and allow managers to track their teams’ learning progress. It also allows managers to test employees’ understanding of the training material.
4. Progress Tracking
WorkPlan Learning Collaborative LMS allows managers and employers to track learning progress through statistics. Members can view their progress against team objectives, and managers can view key insights into their teams’ activities. WorkPlan leaning also allows you to export data to excel or other data reporting tools.
If you are looking to transform your company into an engaged, effective team and watch your staff as they become a motivated and cohesive unit, striving towards a better goal, contact us for a free demo today.
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How WorkPlan Learning can help
WorkPlan Learning is a collaborative LMS that keeps all your business’s training content in one place, making professional development easily accessible to all your employees. The collaborative capabilities of WorkPlan Learning allow your employees to keep on top of their professional development by giving them room to give feedback and raise any gaps in knowledge.
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