How do workforce enablement solutions boost productivity and investor confidence?

Manufacturing and Construction

In our previous blog, we looked at the growing challenges that highly specialized and regulated industries (such as transport, high-tech manufacturing, and life sciences) are facing.

Some of the consequences of workforce enablement challenges include:

  • Inability to effectively track certification & skills
  • Slow time to competence
  • Lack of training & development opportunities
  • Struggling to meet regulatory requirements
  • Slow to act or communicate in a crisis
  • Unable to easily take advantage of strategic opportunities

These all affect how efficient, compliant, and productive a workforce can be, as well as decrease investor and even customer confidence, satisfaction and appeal. Businesses are at a growing risk of falling behind competitors, facing hefty fines, or shutting down completely.

It’s clear that effectively enabling your workforce to compete is now both a strategic imperative and an asset. So how does a learning management system (LMS) help organizations to mitigate risks and unlock new opportunities?

Workforce enablement processes all together on a single platform

A comprehensive and modern LMS includes many features and functions that directly enable workforces:

  • On-site task-based assessment – the LMS assesses whether workers can actually work in specific conditions or on specific equipment and integrates with access control systems to ensure the safety of your systems, processes, and working environments
  • Certification and skills gap reporting – the LMS tracks both role and regulatory compliance to ensure that workers are certified and authorized to perform their roles
  • Assessment through to recommendation – if workers aren’t certified, the system automatically highlights the certifications and training that they’ll need. The system then assists in the training or scheduling of the resources required to train, assess and certify them to regulatory or local standards.
  • Experiential Learning – AR/VR, micro-videos, and other immersive experiences can easily be deployed to drive improvements in worker effectiveness.
  • Personalization to attract and retain talent – create and support personalized learning in the LMS that is aligned with both the employee’s personal and corporate objectives.
  • Integration with upstream and downstream systems – facilitate automation and integration with key upstream, downstream, and operational systems for access control and/or rostering.
  • Communications – comprehensive, flexible and highly automated communications capability that includes email, calendar integrations and productivity tools.
  • Proof – providing robust evidence and auditability of compliance levels driven by regulation. This information is easy to access, interpret and act on, with flexible dashboarding and visualization capabilities

As you can see, the right LMS should be a central part of a living, breathing operational process. And if your current LMS ecosystem is not core to this living, breathing operational process or its highly complex to manage then it’s not truly able to address your current and rapidly evolving workforce enablement needs

Regain your momentum with the right workforce enablement solution

When chosen and implemented correctly, the right LMS becomes a critical component of your wider operational and technical ecosystem.

It allows organizations to continue risk-managed operations at a high tempo with fewer disruptions by providing them with:

The ability to seamlessly manage employees

An integrated and up-to-date status on their employees’ certifications and training – all of which can feed into their schedule management and potentially cut down on operational disruptions. When employees are able to work on the right job at the right time this leads to valuable cost savings, productivity boosts and greater job satisfaction

Long-term cost savings

Automating tasks such as OH&S and role-based compliance, training and certification, reporting, and much more will help reduce overhead costs, provide greater consistency, and save precious time – allowing you to have fewer risks and distractions as you move your business forward.

Empowered and loyal employees

By giving employees access to certification and training, organizations are ensuring that their people are safe, can do their jobs efficiently, grow their skills, experience fewer disruptions at work, and go above and beyond when needed.

For over 20 years we’ve seen how having the ability to grow professionally empowers employees on a personal and professional level – it quickly increases confidence, loyalty, and productivity, while reducing operational and strategic risk.

Increased investment opportunities

An effective key person risk strategy is something that more investors are looking at when it comes to making decisions on where to place their money.

Attracting the right investment dollars means telling the right growth opportunity story. The story isn’t enough though – you need to back this up during due diligence by having the right embedded talent retention and onboarding strategy underpinning your growth aspirations.

Establishing and promoting your workforce enablement credentials goes a long way to helping convince investors you are the right horse to back.

Discover how a learning management system can enable your workforce

Successful organizations see defining specific strategic and operational objectives, management policies, processes and evaluation frameworks as essential elements of achieving value from their workforce enablement investment.

If your organization is currently working through similar challenges, or if you’re after a more streamlined way to deliver training & development, you’ll find that Seertech Learning is an essential system for addressing these challenges and unlocking your potential.

Many of our customers see an increase in revenue and a decrease in both overheads and risk, directly resulting from embedding our single-source learning ecosystem. It helps unlock trainings true value through optimizing their workforce & operational outcomes – for both employees and their extended enterprise audiences.

We invite you to talk with our experts on how Seertech, a leading LMS provider, can improve your workforce enablement capabilities – you can contact us to discuss your questions and needs.