How a Learning Management System (LMS) can support your Business
How a Learning Management System (LMS) can support your Business
The use of a Learning Management System (LMS) has many benefits for a company.
An e-learning platform can provide invaluable support to a wide range of departments and operations, from sales team training to technical team training to personal development.
Training within the company reinforces the positive perception that employees have of their position and mission, thus significantly reducing turnover.
For its partners and customers, access to training to provide them with the expected support on your services and products is a brand exercise that reinforces the positive image of your company.
Check list :
Sales Enablement
Onboarding
Product Training
Technical & operational Support
Learning Culture
Branding
In this article we will cover the different ways in which a Learning Management System and more generally training and e-Learning are assets that are now essential to the proper functioning and development of your business.
Sales Enablement
Your sales teams need continuous training to do their job well. Their managers are attentive to their sales speech and they want to make sure that the speech is correctly structured.
An e-learning platform (LMS) helps the teams to transmit the sales methodology in a clear way but also offers the tools to follow, assist and monitor the activities and performance of the sales teams.
A tool like the Learning Lab offers innovative and varied features that make training interesting, interactive and memorable. The fun factor with a strong sense of added value is paramount.
Here are just two examples out of more than a dozen:
Video Assessment
The exercise is no longer written or followed by questions and answers, but the salesperson can record his or her sales speech directly on the platform following the indications of his or her manager.
The video will be commented directly on the timeline with constructive or positive comments.
Video Quiz
The manager records his video training. And in the video he asks a question to his trainee.
The video stops after the question, the sales person answers and the video continues until the next question.
With just these two examples managers can organise clear and effective training. Implementation is quick and easy and the interaction with the content ensures optimum learner engagement.
The aim is to deliver training that is rooted in reality to help teams perform better. For sales enablement, an LMS is not only an indispensable tool for managers but also extremely appreciated by sales teams.
They can find tools, materials, help guides and discussion areas to exchange experiences and develop a strong and positive company culture.
Learning Management System (LMS)
Learning Management System (LMS)
Onboarding
When onboarding a new team or employee, a Learning Management System (LMS) will offer a series of tools and information that will accelerate the integration of new employees into the company's methodologies and processes.
Learning Path in group or individual
Material: video, ppt, pdf, audio
Chat and Forum
Test and Gamification
Wikis and knowledge
With all these tools to help and facilitate the preparation of onboarding, the management team can capitalise on best practices and continuously improve the training through regular and continuous updates.
Learners are accurately monitored and their activities on the eLearning platform (LMS) can be rewarded with awards, badges and even certifications that are rewarding and encouraging.
The LMS is also a source of information for new employees, who can consult it on request to answer certain questions or deal with certain business issues.
Product Training
Many services or products are technical. And a Learning Management System (LMS) will help in the structuring and online delivery of pedagogical content to a demanding team.
Its contents can be:
Courses,
Podcasts,
Videos,
Schemas,
Audios,
PDF,
PPT…
For example, the use of 3D with a voice-over will facilitate the presentation of a product with its business application. The Learning Lab worked on the presentation of medical products.
Our creative team, our instructional designers and our client's medical experts have together produced a series of videos for surgeons to explain with clarity and science the application of medical screws in the rectification of scoliosis.
The result was a 35% increase in traffic to our client's website and an increase in sales of over 15% in the first 3 months.
Our LMS can be accessed from all media: Desktop, Ipad, Smartphone, the product training is of course also used by technical teams for their technical implementation.
Authoring Tool (LMS)
LMS with Authoring Tool
Technical & operational Support
A Learning Management System (LMS) like the Learning Lab is an asset in technical or operational training.
Our solution allows us to set up training courses but also series of pedagogical tests that put learners in real-life cases.
For example, a series of short videos in MicroLearning format (1-2mn max) accompanied by documents for training in banking software will be followed by tests where the learner will record his or her screen from the elearning platform (LMS) while handling the software.
The video recording of the screen will be automatically submitted via a notification to the instructor who will be able to comment on the timeline of the video and validate the exercise.
Another simple but highly effective example of the benefits and added value of an e-learning platform in a company's continuing education.
An LMS is also a tool for work, research and collaboration!
The so-called Learning Experience Platform is a tool for developing and sharing information.
Discussion & Brainstorming
In line with social learning, communication between employees is very important. You want to encourage exchanges, discussions and collaborative projects - in short, the development of a strong and motivating company culture.
A Learning Management System (LMS) offers you the technological support to set up such a dynamic.
To be more precise, the solution you are looking for in this case is a Learning Experience Platform or LXP.
This emerging solution allows the learner or employee to actively participate in the construction and exchange of information:
Chat,
Forum,
Sharing of videos, audios, documents,
Reposting articles or blogs
Content creation
Workshop…
An additional option offered by our Learning Lab solution is the project management tool dedicated to eLearning:
Planning
Management
Document sharing
Project Status
Chat
Roles…
To summarise, an e-learning platform like the Learning Lab delivers social learning features that facilitate and further organise internal communication and exchange between employees.
The benefits are numerous, first of all the development of continuous learning, the reinforcement of self-learning and on-demand training, then a better retention of information and a higher level of engagement.
Branding
Careful and professional eLearning course design and publication on an eLearning platform (LMS) such as the Learning Lab strengthens the image of your company.
This exercise develops a positive image among your employees, reducing turnover and increasing the willingness of qualified employees to join your company.
Check List :
Logo,
Colours,
Fonts,
Videos,
Images,
Avatars,
Layout,
Button,
Landing page,
Learning Path…
The benefits are similar to lending to your partners and customers.
A well-customised, branded, and designed platform will convey your values to your communities. An LMS can help you differentiate yourself from your competitors and position yourself as the leader.
Why do you need an elearning platform
Why do you need an eLearning Platform?
Summing Up
Explaining, communicating, training, testing, evaluating, marketing, discussing, exchanging... a Learning Management System (LMS) impacts your company in many ways.
A company's e-learning platform has become the central tool of its organisation.
An LMS is useful inside and outside the company.