Here are our top tips to keep your people curious, and make sure professional development remains a priority in your organisation.
Personalise it with your own content
The SkillsTown platform is fully customisable so that it perfectly matches your organisation and its goals. Think of product presentations or e-learning modules that will directly benefit your employees. Even physical training can be linked to online modules on the platform. Once your staff are regularly visiting the website for content that you are assigning them, there is a very good chance that they will click further to take up other training courses that seem interesting to them.
Record a webinar regularly
Webinars have become extremely popular in recent years and that has only increased since the pandemic. Why? Because they work! A webinar is a digital video that you broadcast live and can watch afterwards. This is an accessible way to share knowledge with your target group. During the webinar you can easily interact with the viewers thanks to polls, questions and a chat function. Conveying a message with image, sound and interaction ensures that your target group remembers about 80 percent of your message!
By regularly recording a new webinar, you ensure that your academy remains interesting and up-to-date for your employees. Regularly discuss topics that are relevant to your organisation at the time. Putting them on a platform like SkillsTown also makes sure they are easily accessible.
Monthly newsletter
Does your company have a fixed communication ‘moment’ with employees, such as a weekly or monthly newsletter? Think about how you can communicate your corporate academy through this medium, such as highlighting different courses, sharing the top three training sessions of the month etc. If your newsletter has a specific theme you could even link to courses in your online academy – think happiness at work, collaboration, health, company culture, and the like. Whatever is relevant within your organisation at the time will work!
Make certain training mandatory
It’s not always possible to predict what will and what won’t work for your organisation. So, try out different training methods, such as making some training mandatory, especially if your employees appreciate a helping hand or it fits in with the culture of your company. Mandatory training needs to be managed to avoid staff feeling that they have followed the training course ‘for nothing’. Encourage your managers to manage their team and include their progress within the online academy in their development discussions.
Development conversations
Make sure that the responsibility for directing employees to work on their development does not lie with one department, but that you divide the support across the company. Encourage your managers to direct employees to follow online training courses and include these results in their development discussions. The results of completed training courses can be used to build the conversation, as they form a great starting point.
With SkillsTown there are also many training courses specialising in soft skills and career development. Think personal leadership, happiness at work, and time management. As a manager, you’ll be able to immediately see whether your people are on the right track or where you can provide them with extra support.
Keep in mind that as a result of your development conversations you can also recommend online training courses which you think will be good for your employee. You can then discuss this again at their next development meeting.
Do you need help deploying your online academy? We’d love to give you a free demo to show you what the SkillsTown platform is all about!
