03
focus on user experience
02
Move away from learning silos
01
Don't Fall for Yesterday's Technology
Let's examine the three steps you can take to move to this type of solution.
Unfortunately, that leaves out many of the traditional training and learning software packages HR offices across industries still use today. Yes, your LMS is holding you back.
Technology improvements and the accompanying user expectations have made a more intuitive alternative an increasing necessity.
That trend has to move towards learning solutions, as well. User expectations don't end with the personal use, but extend to the ways in which your employees and stakeholders interact with your software. Static, stand-alone applications just won't keep their attention.
Only a collaborative, visual, intuitive system can accomplish your goal.
Smartphones and tablets have certainly played their part. When it's easy to find something on Google, why wait until the training course gets to that point?
In the age of being constantly online, instant gratification has become not just an option but the expectation and the norm.
to serve the needs of an increasingly remote and mobile workforce.
Designed
Optimized
Integrated
Modern digital systems are:
Today, digital technology is all around us.
Learning on static websites seems like a long time ago.
IS YOUR LMS HOLDING YOU BACK?
3 Steps to Move to an Integrated Learning Solution
interactive e-book
Usability
Visual
Location Agnostic
Technology has made possible anything from interactivity to audio and video-recording and live collaboration within your various teams.
Your employees expect their learning to happen on-demand, as needed, and with plenty of applicability.
Usability
Text-based modules won't cut it, and even a static video might not be enough. Microlearning has moved from a buzzword to reality. A snackable 5-minute module will be more important than that block of text or that 20-minute audio file.
Visual
With most of our workforce now working from home at least once per week, it won't be possible to restrict the modern learner to the work computer.
Location Agnostic
Needs of a Modern Learner
01
01 | Don't Fall for Yesterday's Technology
Compare the effort it took seven years ago to play your favorite song to today, utilizing your Amazon Alexa and Google Home. That drastic shift in technology, and the resulting convenience, is exactly what your employees are feeling and expecting.
Yet, many employees are still forced to use systems with linear learning modules, stored on local hard drives, based largely in text.
We've moved mobile, to the cloud, and into the real world.
A more natural, intuitive environment in which all software systems needed to accomplish the work has become expected and almost entirely necessary. Our workforce expects more collaborative approaches that include as much information sharing as actual information intake.
Productivity
Technical
Data
Communications
Communications
Find more natural integration points, like: Integrations with your communications software, from email to instant messaging and your intranet.
Data
Find more natural integration points, like: Data integration for better visualization of reporting data as well as the ability to use real data for learning scenarios.
Technical
Find more natural integration points, like: Technical integrations with a variety of operating systems and browsers
Productivity
Find more natural integration points, like: Productivity integrations with your other software systems to minimize the 'bridges' you have to build to get your employees to learn.
Integrated solutions on multiple levels
See what to look for
Learning Silos distract from the core goal, while adding complications that ultimately prevent your employees from learning effectively or wanting to learn at all.
The solution?
Many of the LMS solutions currently on the market still don't integrate well with other software platforms. It can be restricted from certain browsers, or implement security standards that make it impossible to share data. As your workforce is moving to a more fluid, multi-device way of using the internet, that seemingly harmless trend is becoming increasingly problematic.
Look for solutions that build more integrated alternatives.
02
02 | Move away from learning Silos
Learn More
Create a learning experience designed for engagement and success, and you can build a powerful onboarding and professional development platform.
Upstream Communication
User Experience
Engagement
Continuous Communications
Continuous Communications
You need:
Communication capabilities to deliver messages on an ongoing basis
Engagement
You need:
The ability to measure engagement within the platform to find weak spots in its UX.
User Experience
You need:
A more fluid user experience that carries from the platform to other software platforms.
Upstream Communication
You need:
The opportunity for feedback mechanisms that allow for upstream communications and improvement opportunities.
solutions with user-first mentality
See what to look for
It means a visual environment that enhances instead of distracting from core user goals. It means making it easy to find the modules and lessons your users are looking for at a given time, and making sure they're accessible regardless of location. In short, it means building alearning experience not bound by the LMS, but integrated into your employees daily work life.
The Approach?
Access needs to be instant, cross platforms, and include offline capabilities for the occasional bus trip or plane ride.
The best learning system solutions don't try to force a counterintuitive interface onto their users, but mirror the apps and websites that learners see in their everyday life.
03
03 | Focus on User Experience
Mobile-First
Feedback
Integration
On-Demand
Interactive
Accessibility
Accessibility
Look for solutions that:
Are accessible regardless of location, ideally cloud-based
Interactive
Look for solutions that:
Support features like interactive video
On-Demand
Look for solutions that:
Allow for non-linear test taking that creates a more on-demand environment
Integration
Look for solutions that:
Integrate collaborative tools to increase teamwork within the learning effort
Feedback
Look for solutions that:
Allow for feedback from employees as well as audio and video recording options for learners
Mobile-First
Look for solutions that:
Focus not just on being mobile-friendly, but mobile-first with the entire interface designed for these devices
Modern, Feature Rich-Solutions
See what to look for
03
focus on user experience
02
Move away from learning silos
01
Don't Fall for Yesterday's Technology
Let's examine the three steps you can take to move to this type of solution.
Unfortunately, that leaves out many of the traditional training and learning software packages HR offices across industries still use today. Yes, your LMS is holding you back.
Technology improvements and the accompanying user expectations have made a more intuitive alternative an increasing necessity.
That trend has to move towards learning solutions, as well. User expectations don't end with the personal use, but extend to the ways in which your employees and stakeholders interact with your software. Static, stand-alone applications just won't keep their attention.
Only a collaborative, visual, intuitive system can accomplish your goal.
Smartphones and tablets have certainly played their part. When it's easy to find something on Google, why wait until the training course gets to that point?
In the age of being constantly online, instant gratification has become not just an option but the expectation and the norm.
to serve the needs of an increasingly remote and mobile workforce.
Designed
Optimized
Integrated
Modern digital systems are:
Today, digital technology is all around us.
Learning on static websites seems like a long time ago.
IS YOUR LMS HOLDING YOU BACK?
3 Steps to Move to an Integrated Learning Solution
interactive e-book
Usability
Visual
Location Agnostic
Technology has made possible anything from interactivity to audio and video-recording and live collaboration within your various teams.
Your employees expect their learning to happen on-demand, as needed, and with plenty of applicability.
Usability
Text-based modules won't cut it, and even a static video might not be enough. Microlearning has moved from a buzzword to reality. A snackable 5-minute module will be more important than that block of text or that 20-minute audio file.
Visual
With most of our workforce now working from home at least once per week, it won't be possible to restrict the modern learner to the work computer.
Location Agnostic
Needs of a Modern Learner
01
01 | Don't Fall for Yesterday's Technology
Compare the effort it took seven years ago to play your favorite song to today, utilizing your Amazon Alexa and Google Home. That drastic shift in technology, and the resulting convenience, is exactly what your employees are feeling and expecting.
Yet, many employees are still forced to use systems with linear learning modules, stored on local hard drives, based largely in text.
We've moved mobile, to the cloud, and into the real world.
A more natural, intuitive environment in which all software systems needed to accomplish the work has become expected and almost entirely necessary. Our workforce expects more collaborative approaches that include as much information sharing as actual information intake.
Productivity
Technical
Data
Communications
Communications
Find more natural integration points, like: Integrations with your communications software, from email to instant messaging and your intranet.
Data
Find more natural integration points, like: Data integration for better visualization of reporting data as well as the ability to use real data for learning scenarios.
Technical
Find more natural integration points, like: Technical integrations with a variety of operating systems and browsers
Productivity
Find more natural integration points, like: Productivity integrations with your other software systems to minimize the 'bridges' you have to build to get your employees to learn.
Integrated solutions on multiple levels
See what to look for
Learning Silos distract from the core goal, while adding complications that ultimately prevent your employees from learning effectively or wanting to learn at all.
The solution?
Many of the LMS solutions currently on the market still don't integrate well with other software platforms. It can be restricted from certain browsers, or implement security standards that make it impossible to share data. As your workforce is moving to a more fluid, multi-device way of using the internet, that seemingly harmless trend is becoming increasingly problematic.
Look for solutions that build more integrated alternatives.
02
02 | Move away from learning Silos
Learn More
Create a learning experience designed for engagement and success, and you can build a powerful onboarding and professional development platform.
Upstream Communication
User Experience
Engagement
Continuous Communications
Continuous Communications
You need:
Communication capabilities to deliver messages on an ongoing basis
Engagement
You need:
The ability to measure engagement within the platform to find weak spots in its UX.
User Experience
You need:
A more fluid user experience that carries from the platform to other software platforms.
Upstream Communication
You need:
The opportunity for feedback mechanisms that allow for upstream communications and improvement opportunities.
solutions with user-first mentality
See what to look for
It means a visual environment that enhances instead of distracting from core user goals. It means making it easy to find the modules and lessons your users are looking for at a given time, and making sure they're accessible regardless of location. In short, it means building alearning experience not bound by the LMS, but integrated into your employees daily work life.
The Approach?
Access needs to be instant, cross platforms, and include offline capabilities for the occasional bus trip or plane ride.
The best learning system solutions don't try to force a counterintuitive interface onto their users, but mirror the apps and websites that learners see in their everyday life.
03
03 | Focus on User Experience
Mobile-First
Feedback
Integration
On-Demand
Interactive
Accessibility
Accessibility
Look for solutions that:
Are accessible regardless of location, ideally cloud-based
Interactive
Look for solutions that:
Support features like interactive video
On-Demand
Look for solutions that:
Allow for non-linear test taking that creates a more on-demand environment
Integration
Look for solutions that:
Integrate collaborative tools to increase teamwork within the learning effort
Feedback
Look for solutions that:
Allow for feedback from employees as well as audio and video recording options for learners
Mobile-First
Look for solutions that:
Focus not just on being mobile-friendly, but mobile-first with the entire interface designed for these devices
Modern, Feature Rich-Solutions
See what to look for
03
focus on user experience
02
Move away from learning silos
01
Don't Fall for Yesterday's Technology
Let's examine the three steps you can take to move to this type of solution.
Unfortunately, that leaves out many of the traditional training and learning software packages HR offices across industries still use today. Yes, your LMS is holding you back.
Technology improvements and the accompanying user expectations have made a more intuitive alternative an increasing necessity.
That trend has to move towards learning solutions, as well. User expectations don't end with the personal use, but extend to the ways in which your employees and stakeholders interact with your software. Static, stand-alone applications just won't keep their attention.
Only a collaborative, visual, intuitive system can accomplish your goal.
Smartphones and tablets have certainly played their part. When it's easy to find something on Google, why wait until the training course gets to that point?
In the age of being constantly online, instant gratification has become not just an option but the expectation and the norm.
to serve the needs of an increasingly remote and mobile workforce.
Designed
Optimized
Integrated
Modern digital systems are:
Today, digital technology is all around us.
Learning on static websites seems like a long time ago.
IS YOUR LMS HOLDING YOU BACK?
3 Steps to Move to an Integrated Learning Solution
interactive e-book
Usability
Visual
Location Agnostic
Technology has made possible anything from interactivity to audio and video-recording and live collaboration within your various teams.
Your employees expect their learning to happen on-demand, as needed, and with plenty of applicability.
Usability
Text-based modules won't cut it, and even a static video might not be enough. Microlearning has moved from a buzzword to reality. A snackable 5-minute module will be more important than that block of text or that 20-minute audio file.
Visual
With most of our workforce now working from home at least once per week, it won't be possible to restrict the modern learner to the work computer.
Location Agnostic
Needs of a Modern Learner
01
01 | Don't Fall for Yesterday's Technology
Compare the effort it took seven years ago to play your favorite song to today, utilizing your Amazon Alexa and Google Home. That drastic shift in technology, and the resulting convenience, is exactly what your employees are feeling and expecting.
Yet, many employees are still forced to use systems with linear learning modules, stored on local hard drives, based largely in text.
We've moved mobile, to the cloud, and into the real world.
Productivity
Technical
Data
Communications
Communications
Find more natural integration points, like: Integrations with your communications software, from email to instant messaging and your intranet.
Data
Find more natural integration points, like: Data integration for better visualization of reporting data as well as the ability to use real data for learning scenarios.
Technical
Find more natural integration points, like: Technical integrations with a variety of operating systems and browsers
Productivity
Find more natural integration points, like: Productivity integrations with your other software systems to minimize the 'bridges' you have to build to get your employees to learn.
Integrated solutions on multiple levels
See what to look for
A more natural, intuitive environment in which all software systems needed to accomplish the work has become expected and almost entirely necessary. Our workforce expects more collaborative approaches that include as much information sharing as actual information intake.
Learning Silos distract from the core goal, while adding complications that ultimately prevent your employees from learning effectively or wanting to learn at all.
The solution?
Many of the LMS solutions currently on the market still don't integrate well with other software platforms. It can be restricted from certain browsers, or implement security standards that make it impossible to share data. As your workforce is moving to a more fluid, multi-device way of using the internet, that seemingly harmless trend is becoming increasingly problematic.
Look for solutions that build more integrated alternatives.
02
02 | Move away from learning Silos
Learn More
Create a learning experience designed for engagement and success, and you can build a powerful onboarding and professional development platform.
Upstream Communication
User Experience
Engagement
Continuous Communications
Continuous Communications
You need:
Communication capabilities to deliver messages on an ongoing basis
Engagement
You need:
The ability to measure engagement within the platform to find weak spots in its UX.
User Experience
You need:
A more fluid user experience that carries from the platform to other software platforms.
Upstream Communication
You need:
The opportunity for feedback mechanisms that allow for upstream communications and improvement opportunities.
solutions with user-first mentality
See what to look for
It means a visual environment that enhances instead of distracting from core user goals. It means making it easy to find the modules and lessons your users are looking for at a given time, and making sure they're accessible regardless of location. In short, it means building alearning experience not bound by the LMS, but integrated into your employees daily work life.
The Approach?
Access needs to be instant, cross platforms, and include offline capabilities for the occasional bus trip or plane ride.
The best learning system solutions don't try to force a counterintuitive interface onto their users, but mirror the apps and websites that learners see in their everyday life.
03
03 | Focus on User Experience
Mobile-First
Feedback
Integration
On-Demand
Interactive
Accessibility
Accessibility
Look for solutions that:
Are accessible regardless of location, ideally cloud-based
Interactive
Look for solutions that:
Support features like interactive video
On-Demand
Look for solutions that:
Allow for non-linear test taking that creates a more on-demand environment
Integration
Look for solutions that:
Integrate collaborative tools to increase teamwork within the learning effort
Feedback
Look for solutions that:
Allow for feedback from employees as well as audio and video recording options for learners
Mobile-First
Look for solutions that:
Focus not just on being mobile-friendly, but mobile-first with the entire interface designed for these devices
Modern, Feature Rich-Solutions
See what to look for