Employee Learning Portals – Leveraging Technology for Employee Communication and Training

June 17, 2009 5570 Comments2009-06-17+09%3A00%3A47Ben+Nash

In these tough economic times what keeps managers awake at night? The obvious answer is customer retention or cost reduction – less obvious, however, may be maintaining a motivated, skilled workforce!

Motivated, skilled employees maybe your “last best hope” of getting your organization safely to the other side of the recession. After all, motivated, skilled employees are the ones who drive customer retention and cost reduction!

A new tool to help organizations develop an informed and skilled workforce is an “Employee Learning Portal”. Now, technology, training, and communications have finally come together with the advent of Employee Learning Portals – technology that allows employees to access powerful on-line tools at the fraction of the cost of more traditional methods. A new generation of employees, located anywhere in the world, who are used to finding instant answers on Google or Yahoo, can now access one web site for:

Key Messages from Senior Management – Company Vision, Mission, Values, and Goals

Policies and Procedures – On-line Employee Handbook, Benefits Information, Forms, etc.

Employee Performance Information –Job Descriptions, Performance Review procedures, etc.

Employee Development Library – Training Materials Downloads, On-Line Assessments, On-Line Learning Modules, Reference Materials, etc.

You can even set up your own in-house version of facebook so employees can post their profiles and get together to work on projects or problems.

With Employee Learning Portals, “best-in-class” content such as training materials, competency models, and company policies are provided more cost effectively than more traditional methods – well worth it for a good night’s sleep!