Tag: induction

The pace and complexity of modern life has caused us to adapt how we perform tasks or seek and consume information. You only have to look at today’s social media habits, which encourage fast digestion of mass content.

Apparently, average human attention span has decreased from 12 seconds in 2000 to 8.25 seconds today. That’s a 25% decline! If this shocking stat is true, our attention spans are currently less than the 9 seconds of your average goldfish. The advertising industry admits they aim to grab your attention within the first 3 seconds.

So, has our ability to concentrate worsened? Is life being designed to cater for people with a shortening attention span or just busy lives?

• Home delivery dinner boxes for rapid cooking and less time shopping.
• Interval hit training sessions (made fashionable by the wonderful Joe Wicks).
• 5 minute mindfulness app sessions to reset and calm the mind.
• Grabbing a take out latte on route.
• Taking a power nap to recharge.

Just like these behaviour styles being filters into all aspects of life, learning content should also be designed around a single, simple goal or objective.

There’s no time for fluffy filler content. We need to get to the point fast.

Bitesized learning or microlearning is a great way to meet these needs of an active, busy audience; designed to fit around juggling their ever-changing work priorities.

It’s all about effectively breaking down elearning content into digestible chunks. This makes it easier for learners to work through at a pace that suits them, boosts engagement and easily fits into their busy schedules.

But what are the benefits of bitesized learning for businesses in the long run?

1. Refresh

Learning can be designed for exactly when you need it; quick solutions to when you’re stuck at work.

2. Reflect

Delivering small segments of learning over time, gives users more time to reflect on each concept and experiment by putting ideas and processes into practice.

3. Retain

Users are more likely to learn better and understand training when there is no pressure to absorb so much.

4. Sustain

It helps to sustain learning and performance over time.

Summing up

Our instructional design experts at Eggu are here to help you redesign your more traditional, longer training sessions into more effective and engaging bites of interactive learning. Whether this might suit 1-2 min video tutorials or 5 min elearning modules, we’re all about delivering quality over quantity.

Speak to Eggu to get the best results from your bite-sized learning content and improve the ways in which your staff learn on the job.

Creating an effective induction process for new starters at any organisation is always a challenge and needs to reflect the unique culture and specific requirements of the business.

Deciding to make the transition to online can seem like a major change when traditionally your instinct is to lead such events face-to-face.

But it’s true that live sessions come loaded with ongoing expenses, both financially and in time management. So, why not eliminate the need for printed resources, physical training spaces, spiralling travel costs and non-productive staff time?

Now with so many new roles being advertised as remote-based, should we accept that online is the future?

To help you in exploring this decision for your business, we’ve put together a few pointers to highlight the real benefits of moving staff inductions online:

1. Ready to shine

Starting a new job is an exciting (and albeit anxious) time. But should day one be boycotted with a heavy schedule of formal classroom training sessions?

By bringing inductions online, businesses can request for new starters to complete a portion of their training before the big day arrives – allowing them to fully prepare themselves accordingly.

That little slice of early insider knowledge can gift new starters with added confidence and enthusiasm about working for the organisation before they even walk onsite.

2. Consistent delivery

Live face to face induction sessions often rely on the involvement of key staff in the organisation, whether that be CEOs to welcome new starters to the team, or heads of departments introducing their roles and responsibilities.

Being able to secure the same presenters at every induction session can be a huge commitment, and let’s face it, not always possible. You’ll find that either essential working hours of senior staff are stolen to repeat the same presentation time after time, or the delivery of sessions is just not consistent across new starter groups.

Moving inductions online can mean that you can prerecord welcome videos from key staff, and keep these easily updated with changes to the organisation structure.

3. Time to get personal

We would never recommend that all elements of an induction should take place online. For many businesses, practical demonstrations or site walkthroughs are essential.

But one of the biggest positives of a face to face session is the opportunity to meet new co-workers on a more personal level, network, ask questions and explore team dynamics.

Where time is so precious in any business, the opportunity for face to face time should be prioritised for forming these quality connections. The mandatory procedures and guidance can (and should) be kept separate.

4. Track competency

Can you ever be certain that new starters have soaked up and digested all the information from a face to face induction?

Everyone learns differently, at a pace that suits them. Simply attending an event gives no certainty that each individual is fully prepared and confident to hit the ground running in their new role.

Incorporating an online assessment or feedback form at the end of an online learning experience is a great way to track a user’s understanding or highlight any areas that may need additional attention, whether for that individual, or all new starters in the future.

5. Stay refreshed

No matter how much we try, what we learn fades over time – especially when it comes to details we don’t call upon on a regular basis. And in a new exciting role, there’s always a wealth of new information to take on board. Relying on new staff remembering all this key information is always a risk.

By moving online, not only can learners digest everything at their own pace, they also have a ready made online resource to refer back to; when they need a recap on how to use technical system, find out who to speak to, or perhaps refer back to holiday and payroll details.

Allowing this information to be readily available at the fingertips of new starters can enhance knowledge retention, increase employee confidence and boost productivity.

Summing up

Converting your existing employee induction process to digital learning is quick, easy and inexpensive. It will streamline your processes, free up staff hours, save essential training budgets in the long-term and give added value and support to new starters.

Are you exploring digital learning for your staff induction?

Why not speak to Eggu for help in creating a bespoke package that really works and invigorates your growing workforce?