Just as online training is essential to helping employees improve their performance, it is equally important to reinforce and support employees after training. This way, you can ensure the training is put to good use and is positively affecting your organization.
So how do you follow up with your employees to make sure the training is paying off? Below are a few recommendations.
Add Daily Practice.
Add daily practice activities to online training lessons. Build activities that help to integrate these lessons from training into everyday work and behavior. To foster across-the-board participation and empowered workforces, you need to create an educational and self-sufficient environment that helps employees manage themselves when the boss isn’t there.
Focus on repetition.
Instead of adding hundreds of things learned in an online training session, it is most effective to narrow down on one or two skills and guide employees in repeating them daily for incremental success. Steady improvement in small behaviors adds up to meaningful strides toward meeting business goals.
Facilitate interactive meetings.
Engaging employees in boosting their job performance trumps telling and directing. Cultivate an online learning environment that allows employees to safely discuss what was learned and how it can be applied on-the-job. Ask your employees what you can do to help them succeed with their new skills. Share best practices. Provide some coaching if they have not completely mastered what was learned. Show interest when employees describe what they do well. Be sure to provide positive feedback whenever employees apply new skills on-the-job. Behaviors that get recognized and praised are usually repeated.
By strengthening post-training follow-up, companies gain a maximum return on their training investment and execute their business objectives. By the consistent application of desired behaviors, your workforce can enhance productivity, quality, cost structure and employee engagement year after year.