Staff training: 4 factors that drive digitization among companies
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Loading... - Andrea Ross
- 26 Aug 2022
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In an environment still marked by blended learning and accelerated digital transformation processes between companies from various industries, the digitization of training processes continues to make its way as a trend that seems to have managed to transcend the Covid-19 pandemic.
Companies of different sectors and sizes have found in virtual training a useful tool to reach more employees simultaneously, generate efficiencies and reduce expenses related to the until recently extensive and traditional face-to-face training sessions. Today, employees can take training without losing hours of work, self-directed and, in some cases, even asynchronous.
This, however, has meant at the same time a whole change of mindset both among the decision makers of the organizations and among the collaborators of different generations. What have been the main changes and how have they driven the accelerated move to virtual training?
1. The need to close skills gaps
The sudden changes introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted more than ever the existing gaps between employees trained to work in uncertainty and those who were not. Faced with this scenario and with the urgency of dealing with the pandemic in the best way, organizations focused on finding the tools that would allow them to close these gaps more quickly.
Proof of this is that, according to a study carried out globally by McKinsey in the post-quarantine scenario, 58% of companies stated that closing skills gaps among their workforce has become a priority and 69% of these recognized now develop more skills among its workers than in the pre-pandemic scenario.
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2. Technology as a weapon to fight for talent
The virtuality and the irruption of remote or semi-presential work, however, generated at the same time that the physical borders collapsed in the competition for qualified talent. The much talked about high potentials gained special relevance in a context with a special lack of digital talent in the region and investment in staff training went from being a purely administrative process to being a tool to consolidate the work engagement of workers. Read More…
