Committed employees are motivated, more productive, and stay with the organization longer. Online training and digital learning platforms offer excellent tools for employee engagement, such as an easy and flexible way to develop their professional skills and tools to advance in their careers.
In this blog post, we'll go through tips on how to successfully engage and motivate employees using online training and digital learning environments.
The platform makes it easy to offer a variety of trainings and learning opportunities, and this way, enhance the employees' professional competencies. Professional development is essential for motivation: when the employees know how to do their job well and see opportunities to grow, they most likely are more motivated to perform.
Online trainings are a flexible and accessible way to learn. A digital learning platform enables learning alongside work or in different life situations: the learning content is available anytime and anywhere, and it's possible to offer short microlearning modules that can be completed in short sessions. Learning is also more motivating when you can track your own progress with the platform's tools.
The platform can offer personalized learning experiences: the content can be tailored for example to fit a specific skill level or career goal. The learning content can be formed into clear paths that the employees can take if they want to move into a specific role, such as supervisor training. Customized and relevant material can increase the sense of purpose and motivates learning.
Learning content can be made versatile, engaging, and interactive using the platform's features like tasks, surveys, conversations, or multimedia formats. For example conversation elements can be used to support a sense of community and peer learning. Versatile and interactive content and materials make learning more interesting, and learning together can increase engagement and enjoyment to learn.
In digital learning platforms, the training content can be grouped together to form larger learning modules and clear learning paths that can support the employees' career development. The platform can bring visibility into internal career progression for example with competence profiles that show the skills needed for specific roles. When the employee has clear steps on how to advance within the organization and the knowledge that opportunities exist there, their motivation and engagement can grow.
✨ Make sure that you have a user-friendly online learning platform. The learning platform should be easy to use. If the platform is not easy to use and causes frustration, the motivation to learn can drop.
✨ Tailor the content for different levels and roles and ensure that the learning content is relevant for the learners.
✨ Use diverse and interactive learning content. Online learning platforms enable for example the use of videos, surveys, tasks, and conversations. Different formats engage and activate the learners and enhance learning.
✨ Reward learning. Design learning paths where progress is rewarding: break content into multiple courses, form structured paths, and include competencies, milestones, and achievements the learner can achieve from completing courses and gaining new skills.
✨Give feedback for example on well-completed courses. Add also feedback to tasks. Concrete feedback motivates and makes progress visible.
✨ Communicate the benefits of learning and link the learning to the employee's daily work and the company's strategic goals. Create a clear connection between learning and career development and communicate how, for example, completing a certain course could lead to a new role. This strengthens the meaning of learning and increases motivation.
✨ Keep the learning goals visible in performance reviews. This supports continuous learning and shows that development is valued.
✨ Continuously improving the learning content and asking for feedback can help in maintaining the engagement. For example, the platform's survey element can be used to conduct personnel surveys about the usability of the learning platform or the relevance of the available courses, and feedback surveys can also be added to courses in order to find out how to improve the course content and delivery.
How to motivate and engage employees with online learning platform.