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Customized Learning Solutions

AUTHORED BY:

RABAB HAIDER | KNOLSKAPE EDITORIAL TEAM

Embracing customized learning solutions opens up a world of possibilities for learners, offering them a distinctive training experience that is fine tuned to both industry and company specifications. This contextualized approach ensures that the learning modules are not only industry-specific but also intricately aligned with the unique aspects of your company. By delving into cultural, behavioral, and leadership dimensions, this personalized learning experience goes beyond generic training, creating a profound connection between the material and the learner’s immediate work environment. As a result, each participant is equipped with skills and knowledge that directly resonate with their role, fostering a deeper understanding and applicability of the training content. This article talks about the importance of custom learning solutions and how they are revolutionizing the L&D space.

What Are Customized Learning Solutions?

Customized or personalized learning focuses on a group of specific audiences and their learning style, proficiency level, and provides the right training solution to understand their needs. It focuses on a learner-centric approach, so the learner can choose the mode of learning, tools, and learning objectives based on their interests, time of knowledge, speed of education, etc.

In business, many employers look for the answer to the question: How can we get results from our employee training and get the performance out of them? The answer to this question is to provide a customized learning solution. With a customized learning path, learners get a custom and highly relevant learning experience that matches their proficiency and interest areas.

Customization of learning is designed to enable learners. Instead of a one-training-fits-all approach, there is now the need for individual training. It boosts their engagement and exercises are more focused. It will eventually result in an absolute gain for the time spent on the learning experience. Learners have varied learning styles and need to go through the same program; but customized learning can offer a personalized learning solution and learner-centric approach.

In the modern situation at any corporate office, there is always a need for creating employee engagement along with learning. That helps directly in improving employee performance and reducing attrition. It is also essential to create a platform for learners that allows the learning experience to be fast and easy as well as using various technologies to motivate them.

The world around us is continuously in a state of rapid change, and it is crucial for us to comply with the changes in order to keep up with this competitive scenario. It is always vital for businesses, too, to adapt to changes, especially to the changing market dynamics. The advancement of technology has significantly influenced the way business is done over the past years. With these advances, it is high time for companies to add fresh approaches to their business in order to be more lucrative. Today customized learning is becoming the best solution for providing training to your workforce on the best and latest methods, thereby increasing their productivity level. To this end, many business sectors are leaning on custom learning solutions.

Why Choose Custom Learning Solutions?

Customized learning solutions can help the learner to get the Learner Experience and make it more exciting and adaptive to their learning style. Here are some of the main benefits of customized learning:

| Increased attention and motivation

Increased engagement means increased motivation. And, with customized learning, your employees will have more options to choose a learning pathway that’s best suited for them. As a result, they’ll be more invested in their learning. A customized learning solution will also help motivate the learner to complete the curriculum since the curriculum is according to their needs and matches their learning style.

| Reduced learning time

In today’s machine learning and Artificial Intelligence world, it is always essential to learn new things in less time. Providing a customized learning solution for employees/learners will help to make the training in less time, which links there learning needs. We live in a world of multitasking and need to balance various mandates at the same time. With severe stress on time, learners want to spend time on learning experiences that are customized for them.

| Diverse learning styles

Everyone has a different learning style, and they come with varying levels of proficiency. So, having a solution that matches their proficiency level ensures learning solutions automatically improve their performance with a lot of learning engagement. They can choose chunks in the learning path they want to learn/need to learn. They also don’t need to go through what they already know.

Training is all about inspiring the learner to learn new technology. It is clear to understand that learners should feel the urge to put their mind and heart into what is expected from training. This strategy provides the flexibility needed to honor every learner’s uniqueness, therefore better preparing them for success.

Personalized or customized learning might require more cost and effort to develop. But going forward, it’s becoming a need. Customization is only going to increase learning experiences in the years to come.

Achieving better results with learning programs may be likely with your ability to deliver more personalized content. Think thoroughly about how you are going to assist your learners and offer a better learning experience for them moving forward.

How To Boost Employee Performance Using a Custom Learning Solution

What’s the most effective way to boost job satisfaction without spending a small fortune? While some employees focus on salary and health benefits, most make personal development a top priority. They know that building new skills and broadening their knowledge base leads to new career opportunities. Namely, leadership roles within your organization. How do you launch an employee development program that not only bridges individual gaps but helps you retain top talent and build a strong team dynamic?

| Launch Role-Based Certifications

These certification paths are based on job roles and processes. For instance, this course is intended for sales leadership. It covers all the related team building and negotiation skills they need to support their department. As well as advanced product knowledge tools to seal the deal. Employees can also train for leadership positions or even other departments they’re better suited for. Simply put, role-based certifications give staffers the opportunity to achieve career goals at their own pace.

| Host Live Events to Reduce Compliance Risks

Most employees expect boring lectures and nerve-racking exams when they attend compliance courses. So, why not surprise them with an engaging live event instead. This webinar covers all the key policies and task protocols they need to know. You can even invite questions and concerns to get them actively involved. Or follow up with simulations and branching scenarios to test their know-how.

| Use Badges to Bridge Skill Gaps

Badges are the ideal gamification technique to improve workplace satisfaction because they motivate and highlight personal pain points. As an example, employees that don’t earn badges know that there’s room for improvement. Which core competencies do they need to work on, and which resources are available? It’s a discreet way to discover their shortcomings and strengths. Staffers can always retake the course to earn the badge after they bridge relevant gaps. Bridging skill gaps is vital when preparing for the future of work.

| Provide Mobile-Friendly Courses

Every workforce development program should be easily accessible for staffers, and the right custom learning solutions providers make this a top priority. Your team counts on mobile-friendly resources to train when it’s most convenient. Or to access the JIT library in the workplace so that they can avoid common mistakes. It goes beyond bite-sized content, though. Your online training program should be responsive, which automatically adjusts content based on the screen size and resolution. Another key ingredient is user control. Give employees the chance to adjust volume, turn on subtitles, and switch between devices in the middle of an activity.

| Create A Peer Coaching Plan

Discretion is essential, but there are times when employees need peer support. For this reason, you should launch a coaching or mentoring program for staffers. It may be in the form of weekly live events or a closed social media group where they post questions. Whatever the case, peer coaching plans improve work satisfaction because employees get feedback and one-on-one guidance from co-workers. Namely, experienced staffers who can help them bridge individual gaps and get their L&D plan back on track. One of the most effective ways to launch a peer coaching strategy is to assess employees’ needs, then develop skill-building or task-based groups. For instance, everyone in this peer coaching group needs to build their communication or problem-solving skills. Live coaching events also help reduce friction among your geographically dispersed teams and enhance performance. They can talk through issues and express concerns before they escalate into co-worker conflicts.

| Include Self-Assessments

Self-assessments allow employees to gauge their level of proficiency. They can use results to customize certification paths and choose the best JIT (Just in Time) support tools. Assessments are also a great way to set the benchmark before training. Then determine how far they’ve come afterward for added motivation, as well as to evaluate emerging gaps that they should address during the next online training session. Just keep in mind that scores should be private so that employees can save face and still identify personal pain points. Announcing results during your next live event makes top performers stand out. But staffers who are still trying to achieve their potential might feel alienated from the group.

| CUSTOM LEARNING SIMULATIONS

Custom simulation typically refers to a type of customized learning solution that is specifically designed and tailored to meet the unique needs and requirements of a particular system, process, or scenario. Simulations are computer-based models or replicas that mimic real-world processes, allowing users to study, analyze, and understand the behavior of a system under various conditions without the need for real-world experimentation.

The term custom simulation implies that the simulation has been developed or customized to represent a specific environment, set of parameters, or set of variables relevant to a particular application. This can include simulations for training purposes, scientific research, engineering design, or any other field where understanding the behavior of a system is crucial.

What Should Customized Simulations Offer?

| Rapid Authoring Process

Real-life simulations that can be built and deployed at a rapid pace.

| Contextualization

Simulations that can be tailored at your organization’s culture, context, role, and levels in the organization.

| Analytics Enablement

Organizations must get rich analytics and insights at an individual and group level.

| Scalability

Custom simulations can add great value if they can be deployed at an organization-wide scale across geographies and levels within a short period of time.

Customized simulations give a distinct edge to the programs in terms of the various use cases they provide. Some of these are listed below:

Genie: KNOLSKAPE’s Custom Simulation Builder

KNOLSKAPE has been an innovator in the space of simulations and with ‘Genie’ – our proprietary simulation building capability, we are developing, customizing, and scaling simulations faster than ever. Get in touch with us to know more.

It is our ability to create immersive simulations that are experiential with rich user interfaces and deep analytics. Genie based simulations are typically 30 to 45 minutes in duration. These short format simulations, also known as microsimulations, ensure effective and impactful learning in the flow of work for learners across levels in an organization.

Custom simulations at KNOLSKAPE are exemplified by our ability to craft immersive and tailor-made learning experiences that precisely align with the distinctive needs of organizations. For instance, consider a scenario where a global financial institution wants to enhance its leadership team’s decision-making skills in a complex market environment. KNOLSKAPE can develop a custom simulation that replicates the intricacies of the financial landscape, incorporating specific industry variables, regulatory challenges, and market dynamics unique to the organization.

Our custom simulations go beyond generic training by tailoring the virtual experience to the organization’s industry, culture, and operational nuances. Whether it’s leadership development, sales effectiveness, or technical training, KNOLSKAPE’s custom simulations are designed to precisely address the unique learning requirements of each client, fostering a more impactful and relevant training experience.

Takeaway

Among many things, the future of L&D will be governed by entities that are able to craft seamless learning strategies that can boost performance and enhance learning culture. Organizations need to fast forward their learning and development approach in order to scale with the rapid change across the globe. Transformative learning will help organizations and employees thrive even when technologies, trends, or industries undergo speedy transformation. This is not a time for rigidity. L&D organizations need to offer customizable simulations to people so that they can learn according to their own requirements and pace.

KNOLSKAPE has emerged as a global pioneer in hyper-contextualized learning by leveraging its custom simulation building capability, “Genie”. Moreover, our AI/NLP powered Nano-simulations are serving the clients as versatile micro-learning tools crafted to address a wide spectrum of nuanced learning needs.