Digital personnel development

Personnel development is a strategy that aims to improve your employees’ skills, knowledge, and abilities. The continuous (further) development of your employees is an effective tool for combating skilled worker shortages, and it also keeps your company competitive. It boosts staff motivation and performance, and ensures that valuable knowledge is retained in the company. 

Personnel development includes training courses, coaching, mentoring programs, leadership development, and job rotation. The goal of all methods is to train your employees and strengthen and develop their skills, knowledge, and competencies.

The world of work has changed dramatically in recent years. Many processes are now digital. Employees have hybrid or completely remote working patterns, and working hours are becoming more and more flexible. This also has implications for personnel development. In the past, you had to train large groups in classrooms, print out materials on paper, or send employees on training courses hundreds of miles away. Digitalization has now changed all this and brought new digital processes. 

And personnel development also been digitalized. Hybrid learning is popular. The focus is on flexibility and individuality. Digital methods enable you to tailor personnel development programs to your employees’ needs, making training more efficient and impactful.

Technology, the world of work, and society are in constant flux. Digitalization has taken the pace of change to a new level. Today’s initiatives may be obsolete by tomorrow. New technologies such as AI present your employees with new challenges on a daily basis. In order to respond to these shifts, you need a personnel development program that can adapt quickly and flexibly.

Training and personal development—wherever and whenever your employees want. Flexible, intuitive, and needs-focused. eLearning can deliver all this for your digital personnel development. eLearning is more than outstanding training or an online course. It offers a variety of exciting ways to develop your employees. Take advantage of the numerous benefits of eLearning for your personnel development.

In principle, you can use eLearning for all aspects of digital personnel development. But you don’t need to switch everything to digital right away. It often makes good sense to combine digital and analog personnel development methods. And digital learning doesn’t necessarily have to be undertaken alone in a silent room. You can create learning circles that meet up online, for example, or offer your employees the opportunity to interact socially through a learning management system (LMS). Below are some tried-and-tested ways to support your personnel development program with eLearning.

Train your employees digitally, supporting them through their probation and beyond. Not just for white-collar workers. New staff in production, sales, and logistics also benefit from digital learning content. Train them up on work processes, tools, machines, and even your corporate culture. Cost-effective. Flexible. User-friendly.

Ever thought about taking part of your mentoring program digital? Use eLearning to pass on knowledge in the company, giving mentors and mentees the chance to communicate asynchronously. This is the way to ensure good mentoring can be provided across national borders, too.

Compliance training is time-consuming and expensive. It has to be delivered to a great many employees, and you need auditable proof of their participation. If you have hundreds of employees, this is a feat that can quickly send costs soaring. So why not try a digital approach? It’s easy to specify adaptive settings for individual countries, positions, or departments. This allows you to reach all of your employees, saves time and money, and spares your nerves.

Digital mapping of personnel development for future managers? Provide digital training to develop your prospective executives’ specialist, methodological, and social skills. Interactive behavioral trainers, simulated situations, and interactive online courses enable you to prepare your employees for leadership roles rapidly.

Whether your staff work in an office or in the field, in production or logistics, you have to provide occupational health and safety training to all of them. Why not put together a digital training program and ensure that your employees can work safely at all times?

Use eLearning to train soft skills such as communication, sales, meetings etiquette, and conflict management. A range of learning methods from web-based training to scenario-based learning will help with this.