People are what make businesses move, grow, and flourish; investing in your live human resources is always a smart decision. However critical to success, training programs don’t have to feel stuffy and laborious. A great training process shouldn’t feel like unwanted homework, it should inspire knowledgeable, motivated employees that are comfortable and confident.
Is your company using an effective training program? Are you training enough, and regularly? Outdated methods of a VHS tape and a conference room doesn’t count. These training statistics from Shift start to tell a tale of why an investment into employee training and engagement is so key:
- Out of nearly 4,300 workers, 74% felt they weren’t achieving their full potential at work.
- Companies with 100-500 employees only have 6 minutes of training every 6 months, on average.
- 1 out of 3 employees said that uninspiring training content is actually a barrier to learning.
- 7 out of 10 people said that training and learning opportunities influence their choice to stay with a company or leave.
Employee training programs, when executed well, can turn around the most effective, productive, and happy staff a business has ever seen. By setting up an interactive training program using online decision trees, you’ll provide a powerful platform for staff to learn from anywhere, and much more easily.
Guided Training Sessions
All businesses will typically have a training guide set in place; a long PDF or thick stack of bound papers to house the important items, manuals, and other key employee information. The problem with these long-form training guides? They’re time-consuming, mind-numbing, and never an accurate representation of the company’s brand or personality.
Interactive decision trees are a more friendly way to guide people through a training session by asking questions in an interview-style way, which helps to keep things moving quickly and keep employees more engaged with the important information being presented. You can even add customizations and visuals like GIFs, videos, and photos to help display step-by-step information and lead workers to a path of understanding.
Online Situational Simulations
Scenario-based documentation is in high-demand for many companies and organizations looking to train new hires in a standard and efficient way; different situational training always varies, for every type of industry. Whether your business is in retail, tech, healthcare, customer support, insurance, or even if you’re a governmental department or non-profit organization, your training simulations should be able to easily match your audience (employees).
Decision trees are a perfect digital resource for creating and implementing simulations online, for any kind of scenario that you may need to communicate in a training session. Providing interactive simulation tools to emulate different potential work scenarios can prove to be invaluable when leading trainees through new or complicated learning environments. Click here for an interactive example of a training simulation to see how it’s done.
Interactive Knowledge Base
Employees and customer-facing agents should be trained on every area of a businesses’ inner workings in order to provide the best work and the most helpful service. If staff were to ask questions to supervisors or other departments multiple times a day, a lot of bottlenecks and frustration would start to occur.
While customer-facing for our purposes, we host our own Zingtree FAQ on the Zingtree platform itself. We’ve found it’s a great way to organize based on different categories of information and quickly lead customers to the right answers to their questions. These knowledge base decision trees can be used in the same way for internal employees, offering a robust FAQ on everything from procedural standards to procurement processes.
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