Fostering a Culture of Learning Pays Bottom-Line Benefits

Many see employee training as a necessary evil – a boring to-do that interferes with “real” work and often ends up on a back burner, or at best is limited to checking the boxes of required courses completed. But the truth is that an engaging, effective employee training program of ongoing learning is vital to motivating, retaining and boosting the value of your most important (and expensive) asset: your people. And if you’re smart, you’ll do more than ensure your staff are completing required courses; you’ll create a culture of learning that imbues your entire organization with an eagerness to improve skillsets, climb the ladder of success and explore new opportunities at your company. As of the writing of this article, the unemployment rate has dropped to under 4% in the U.S. This number alone should have you thinking very hard about how to hold on to the talent you’ve already got: you don’t want your best people going elsewhere to advance their careers when creating an upward pathway at your own organization can prevent it. Enjoyment in learning EasyLMS, for example, combines motivational techniques, “gamification” and career pathing to inject enjoyment into learning while cultivating future talent. Employees are proud to add achievements and badges to their learning “trophy cases,” to compete with one another, and to demonstrate their initiative and skill-building dedication to leadership. Once you have a great learning solution such as this in place, all that’s needed to activate your culture of learning is a strong buy-in from management, emphasizing to staff that ongoing learning is a priority, a free career-builder that can create new opportunities for them at your company. And it’s important that managers stay on top of who’s learning what, provide recognition and encourage “learning boosters” to ensure the new knowledge really takes hold. Ca...