Your executives will begin to question your Learning and Development (L&D) investment once your Training Completion Rates plateau and the growth of your business surpasses current capabilities.
If that is the case, it may be necessary to assess whether your learning management system can continue to meet the strategic business needs of your organization.
This guide outlines seven definitive indicators that your LMS solution must become more sophisticated, and they are also general challenges faced by many scaling organizations across various industries.
7 Signs Your Organization Needs a Smarter LMS
1. Training Completion Rates Have Plateaued
Although many employees are enrolled in critical compliance, sales enablement, and leadership development programs with “good” intentions, participation and completion rates are still low.
Managers in each department spend an inordinate amount of time searching for overdue requirements from employees, while most strategic initiatives for training are not meeting their full potential.
Often, the primary reason is long, unfocused videos that lose learners’ attention within the first few minutes.
2. Learners Frequently Get Stuck Without Guidance
There are numerous reasons why employees may experience obstacles during training, such as difficulty finding their way around the training materials, not being able to follow instructions for accessing their credentials or certificates, and trouble understanding the content they are learning.
As a result, it’s not uncommon for employees to become frustrated and give up on their ability to learn and develop skills at your organization.
SkillTriks AI Answer Assistant gives learners access to answers and instructions on how to continue throughout the course. By providing support through the course content, SkillTriks allows learners to continue making progress without needing anyone else to assist them.
3. Mobile Access Falls Short of Enterprise Standards
Employees can’t effectively utilize training via mobile devices because they are unable to access courses from either their mobile device or desktop computer at the company due to multiple reasons. Courses may not load correctly on mobile and provide a negative user experience.
Therefore, employees need to wait to have access to desktop computers before they can complete training promptly.
With SkillTriks My Dashboard, all mobile interfaces are fully responsive and of enterprise quality, enabling the manager to view their team’s progress, HR to manage compliance to company policies and procedures as well as allow employees to access the personalized, current training from any device.
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Why HR Teams Need AI Chatbots in Their LMS
4. Learning Experiences Aren’t Role-Specific
The existing training system provides the same material to all associates, managers and leaders, regardless of which role they belong to or what their needs might be. This results in frustration for some high level performers and too much information for some lower level associates.
With SkillTriks My Dashboard, users will have access to personalized views based on role.
5. Systems Operate in Isolation
When training records are finalized, they do not pass automatically into HRIS platforms such as Workday and BambooHR. There is also no integration with communication tools to give real-time notifications or collaboration platforms that support cohort learning.
Because of this, there is some inefficiency and the opportunity for compliance problems when data is transferred manually. With SkillTriks Premium, we will create native and bi-directional integrations, while also using the AI Answer Assistant to automatically answer questions regarding the status of your enrollment, any prerequisite(s) for the course(s) and when they are due – across systems.
6. Analytics Lack Strategic Business Insight
The use of standardized completion reports to present a link between the training dollars spent and an organization’s end results is inadequate. For example, the executive cannot see how the leadership program relates to increase retention or how the sales training relates to an increase in revenue.
SkillTriks My Dashboard converts operational data into strategic intelligence, including department skill gap analysis, program return-on-investment calculations, compliance trend forecasting and visual representations that will help executive-level decision makers understand training’s business value.
7. Video Content Fails to Command Attention
Current training videos have many problems that detract from their professionalism, such as long introductions, irrelevant side stories, delays due to poor production cycles, and a variety of quality levels. Producing high-quality corporate video content can be time-consuming and require a level of expertise that you may not have in your L&D Department.
Through SkillTriks Video Trimming, your ability to convert raw video footage into polished instructional modules that provide enterprise-level quality video for use in training is no longer dependent on having production-level resources.
Conclusion
These seven indicators reveal when growing enterprises need sophisticated LMS platforms that deliver personalized, accessible, and measurable learning at scale.
