Digital solutions are vital for modern learning since they address the challenges of traditional training methods. By leveraging technology, organisations can deliver flexible, tailored training programmes that save time, improve knowledge retention, and adapt to individual learner needs.
Challenges of employee engagement
Staff training often comes with a set of common challenges that can hinder its effectiveness. Some examples include:
- Repetitive annual training sessions - these frequently result in employee disengagement, boredom, and low retention of critical information.
- Training is irrelevant to the individual - a one-size-fits-all approach fails to account for the varied skill levels, roles, and knowledge gaps of individual employees, leaving some over-trained while others remain underprepared.
- The administrative burden of managing training priorities—often compliance professionals are juggling compliance requirements, tracking progress, and tailoring content.
- Complex training needs drive up costs - compliance with regulations or addressing diverse learner groups, make training needs complicated which strains organisational resources.
Finding a digital learning solution
Personalised and relevant compliance training is key to fostering employee engagement and ensuring practical application in the workplace. When training aligns with individual roles, knowledge levels, and real-world scenarios, employees are more likely to connect with the material.
They are also more likely to retain information, and apply it effectively in their day-to-day responsibilities. This approach not only enhances understanding but also reinforces a culture of compliance across the organisation.
By blending automation with engaging methods like gamification, microlearning, adaptive learning, and role-specific training, enhanced learning not only caters to the diverse needs of a workforce but also save organisations valuable time and resources.
With enhanced learning as a digital learning solution, you can elevate your digital learning strategy, ensuring impactful and efficient staff training.
Enhanced digital learning
Skillcast’s Enhanced Learning package exemplifies learning innovation by combining tools and methodologies to transform standard compliance training into a dynamic, learner-centric experience.
This suite of innovations is designed to optimise training outcomes, reduce time spent on repetitive courses, and embed compliance into the daily fabric of work life. Here’s how it adds value:
Personalised learning paths with a training needs analysis
Diagnostic assignments provide a powerful tool to evaluate employee knowledge and identify gaps through tailored quizzes. These quizzes, often drawn from resources like Compliance Bites or standard courses, help organisations uncover trends, misunderstandings, and variations across departments or locations.
By analysing quiz results, companies can perform a targeted training needs analysis, ensuring that learners receive relevant training aligned with their individual knowledge levels. This ensures employees only focus on areas where they need improvement, saving time and boosting engagement.
Shortened learning time with FastTrack
The FastTrack Courses feature enables employees to test out of content they already understand, further streamlining the training process and saving organisations significant hours in working time. FastTrack recognises and rewards existing knowledge, reducing redundancy, and combating training fatigue.
This approach not only saves learning hours but also minimises training costs, ensuring time is spent more efficiently while maintaining compliance and engagement.
Engaging microlearning with question of the day
Nudge learning delivers bite-sized questions and content tailored to the learner’s schedule, making training a regular and manageable activity rather than an overwhelming task. This approach keeps training top-of-mind, boosts engagement, and fosters continuous learning in manageable doses.
By encouraging employees to explore topics regularly and measuring their responses, nudge learning helps identify and address knowledge gaps while reinforcing understanding in a more dynamic and effective way.
Seamless integration with embedded compliance
Embedded learning adds value to staff training by integrating compliance resources directly into everyday business workflows, ensuring seamless access and timely support.
With just-in-time training and compliance controls available through intranet links, documents, emails, or chats, employees can easily retrieve specific resources when they need them most.
This approach not only enhances accessibility and relevance but also ensures comprehensive tracking and reporting, giving managers valuable insights into training engagement and compliance activities.
Flexible delivery models
By incorporating features like the Compliance Bites Library, Skillcast offers scalable and modular content, ensuring organisations can adapt their training programmes to meet specific needs without excessive customisation.
Compliance Bites microlearning videos offer quick, engaging refreshers on key topics like insider trading and data privacy. Using animation, characters, and storylines, these bite-sized videos bring complex concepts to life in just a few minutes, making compliance training more engaging and accessible.
Skillcast’s Enhanced Learning package not only supports compliance objectives but also drives a cultural shift toward proactive, embedded learning. It empowers companies to modernise their training strategies, making learning an ongoing, efficient, and meaningful process that aligns with business goals.
Looking for more compliance insights?
We have created a series of comprehensive roadmaps to help you navigate the compliance landscape, supported by e-learning in our Essentials Library.
We also have 100+ free compliance training aids, including assessments, best practice guides, checklists, desk aids, eBooks, games, posters, training presentations and even e-learning modules!
Finally, the SkillcastConnect community provides a unique opportunity to network with other compliance professionals in a vendor-free environment, priority access to our free online learning portal and other exclusive benefits.
