3 Ways to Streamline Employee Training with an LMS

Managing all your training activities can be a big time-suck.

Especially if you're using unintegrated software and manual methods like paper reports to manage Learning & Development (L&D).

Think of all the repetitive tasks your team needs to meticulously execute to simply get an employee through a training course.

Besides being bogged down with low-value work, your team’s very likely entering the same data multiple times (with risk of error) and creating do-over situations.?

What’s more, this low-value work keeps your staff from working on more strategic L&D projects that could deliver higher value to your company.?

It doesn’t have to be this way.??

With the right learning management system (LMS), you can empower your L&D team to create, manage, distribute, and monitor all your employee training cost-efficiently.

Consider these three ways an LMS can streamline or optimize your employee training.

1. Eliminate or reduce repetitive tasks

Imagine enrolling an employee into a course by entering data only once.?

Automatically, the software modules affected by that enrollment are modified instantly, and all the related notifications (e.g., confirmations, reminders, etc.) are queued for scheduled delivery.

This powerful streamlining is made possible by the automation features of a modern integrated LMS.?

This efficiency impacts all the typical tasks associated with your L&D activities, whether they be instructor-led classes, webinars, training in the field, online courses, or any other program of instruction.?

As a result, your team’s administrative burden is greatly reduced.

2. Train employees cost-efficiently at scale

An LMS enables the efficient, flexible delivery of instruction, virtually, at scale.

As a result, you reduce or eliminate the need to produce costly in-class training, which requires you to hire instructors, rent meeting spaces, create, print, and distribute learning materials, and pay for travel, entertainment, and other related costs.

Are your employees working in different locations and time zones? Do they have diverse training needs and scheduling availabilities?

With a mobile-ready cloud-based LMS, your employees can train whenever it’s convenient, wherever they are, on any Internet-connected device.

Above all, your LMS centralizes training resources so that all employees learning a particular subject (e.g., company values and practices) get uniform exposure to the same content.?

That consistency ensures a more homogenous level of performance from your team.

3. Simplify compliance?

With the right LMS, tracking and following up on the recurring compliance needs of employees is greatly simplified.?

For example, a recertification feature will automatically alert an employee and his/her manager when their certificate is about to expire and prompt them to take the course again to remain compliant.?

Furthermore, an LMS will allow you to test your employees knowledge easily and see the results individually or as a group. This allows you to suggest training to fill the gaps.?

How has your LMS streamlined your training operations?