How can employee training increase employee motivation levels?

Employee training programs play a key role in achieving business goals. Training is a key factor influencing employee motivation and talent retention. Motivated employees are results-oriented and focus on personal development as well as organizational goals.

An organization that strives to keep its employees motivated to learn new concepts and skills can adopt effective training solutions. This, in turn, optimizes workflow for employees and helps organizations get a better return on investment.

An employee's ideal attitude towards training should be “I want to learn” rather than “you are forcing me to learn”.

Often employee training is at the bottom of an individual's to-do list. It is seen as a task to be completed but will not add any value to their development. 

Getting rid of this perception is where learning and development and training departments fail. They should aim to make the training engaging and effective enough to generate a return on investment.

Delivering effective employee training programs makes people feel like the organization is taking the initiative for their professional development, research indicates that levels of motivation and productivity soar by 12% when employees feel valued by their employers.

This article discusses how training can motivate employees and how a solid employee training solution can help an organization achieve its business goals:

Make it interesting by providing interactive training content:

For optimal use of resources from an organization's perspective, a digital publishing platform is a worthwhile investment to improve employee productivity.

Older generation digital publishing platforms were only capable of converting legacy content into a specified format. New platforms offer the functionality of converting legacy content into interactive content by integrating the courseware with multimedia content including audio, 3D, video, and gamification. This ensures engagement with content and better knowledge retention.

Personalized content for training:

Most organizations save costs and effort by creating training content and using it for decades. This content becomes stale and irrelevant to employees after a while. Using the same training modules to train employees in all departments or functions will defeat the purpose of the training by rendering the program irrelevant.

Training content should be segmented into modules for different functions and designations. Converting legacy content to digital format can eliminate printing costs. It will also further reduce custom build costs based on designation and functions.

Training provided, anytime and anywhere:

The legacy training content has limitations in terms of device compatibility and format. Individuals were only able to access the modules from their workstations, which led to inefficiency in meeting deadlines for other deliverables.

Training content converted into formats like EPUB can be accessed from a majority of devices such as smartphones, PCs, tablets allowing access to the content from any device.

Today's tech-savvy generation consumes all data on the device of their choice, such as smartphones. Thus, converting the training content to the latest digital formats will encourage them to consume the content.

Emphasize the career development prospects of employees:

Motivated employees have a vested interest in seeing their organization grow, as well as developing their own personal and professional careers. Creating a culture that rewards employee efforts by emphasizing the benefits of training will motivate them.

Value comments and opinions:

A feedback mechanism to gather employee opinions will help optimize content for better relevance. Allowing employees to provide feedback on training content will create a positive affinity for the training system. Employees feel their opinions are valued, which leads to increased motivation.

Develop a culture of learning within the organization:

Organizations with a deep learning culture have comparatively better employee retention rates than organizations where learning is not a priority. Leaders in an organization play a key role in fostering a culture of learning. Employees try to emulate their success by replicating all the efforts of these leaders, including being open to training.

Show how training can improve workflow:

Employees always try to break down their workload in order to optimize it and create a minimum input scenario to a maximum output scenario. Functional leaders with on-the-job knowledge can demonstrate how training can optimize standard operating procedures for better results.

Identify employee strengths:

Companies should identify employee skills that may be relevant to the job and improve them. Training employees to develop their skills can benefit both the organization and the employee in terms of career growth.

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