Engaged Employees: The Benefits of Custom Training

1. Adaptability

   Each employee learns in their own way and at their own pace. When you impose a rigid learning standard, even your best employees may end up falling behind. This could discourage them from asking for help and add to their anxiety, reducing their morale, and further negatively affecting their work.

   With EchoPoll, you can create content targeted at an entire class, small groups, or specific individuals. After all trainees complete the baseline training on a topic, you can use EchoExam to create unique assessments based on the criteria you define. You can even discourage trainees from sharing answers by creating up to 26 versions of the same test. With the powerful metrics EchoExam provides, you can track each trainee’s performance so you know which concepts they are picking up on and which need a bit more reinforcement.

   At this point, you can assign specific trainees to additional EchoPoll training decks on the concepts they need additional training in by simply dragging and dropping their names into relevant courses.

   You can also take advantage of EchoPoll’s content management capabilities and Echo360’s video management capabilities to create training material for learners of all types, whether that’s visual, audible, hands-on, or more. Echo360 also features Automatic Speech Recognition that makes videos accessible by creating editable, searchable transcripts that can easily be turned into closed captions, so the content you create is truly accessible to all trainees.

2. Location flexibility

   The days when employees sat at their desks from 9-5 are over. With flexible work hours and technology that allows employees to work from anywhere, it’s important that your employee training program provides the same type of flexibility. With Point Solutions and EchoPoll, your trainees can access their training materials via the web, a desktop computer, a laptop, or even their tablet or mobile device.

   Point Solutions is packed with elements that provide you everything you need to build presentations your employees will engage with including polls, images, quizzes, and more. These features transform lectures, presentations, and virtual meetings into interactive sessions that allow you to truly connect with your trainees.

   Point Solutions features Anywhere Polling, which gives you the opportunity to insert questions over any media you use and get immediate feedback no matter where your trainees are located. This way, your employees can be involved in custom training from home, from a secondary worksite, or from their desk — wherever it is most convenient for them and the company at the time.

3. Specificity to your business

   Rather than purchasing a predesigned training program, you can use EchoPoll with Point Solutions, a suite that gives you everything you need to engage with your trainees; EchoExam, a content-rich test generator; and Echo360, a video management platform that helps you create and share great educational content that is specific to your organization. Even within your industry, there are things your employees must learn that are specific to your company, so the ability to design your own content is essential, and with EchoPoll and our other products, doing so is quick and easy.

   You can create modules that apply to all employees, and additional modules that are targeted to different departments and specific roles within departments. Customizing training with our suite of products is easier than you can imagine.

According to Forbes, a disengaged employee has a 37% higher absentee rate, an 18% lower productivity rate, and 15% lower profitability. This costs companies about 34% of a disengaged employee’s annual salary, or an average of $15,980 per year, per employee. On the other hand, organizations with happy and engaged employees are 22% more productive than organizations with lower employee engagement and satisfaction rates. Custom training, which can lead to career advancement opportunities, is an important aspect of job satisfaction and engagement, so it makes sense to customize training if you want the most engaged workforce.

Since engaged employees are more productive workers, it makes sense to use the most modern, engaging, customizable training tools possible. Book a demo today to see how our products and our e3 philosophy of engagement, evidence, and equity blend to create the perfect environment for engaging custom learning situations for your employees.