Motivate Learners — Reward and Recognition

Rewards and Recognition

Encour­aging learners to go online and undergo eLearn­ing is not always easy.  Com­pan­ies who have Learn­ing Man­age­ment Sys­tems know how hard it is to get their employ­ees to par­ti­cip­ate in the eLearn­ing.  Whether you are train­ing on com­pli­ance, new product fea­tures or soft skills, learners are fre­quently too busy and have higher pri­or­it­ies rather than sit­ting through eLearning.

So how do you get your staff to engage with eLearning?

We think, what gets seen gets done. By mak­ing things vis­ible, indi­vidual per­form­ance is highlighted.

At Growth Engin­eer­ing, we put rewards and recog­ni­tion at the heart of what we do within the learn­ing exper­i­ence.  This means, recog­ni­tion is given for each time the learn­ing goes on to the Academy and accesses eLearning.

Badges and rewards make the learn­ing work because the user needs to get badges in order to appear on the rewards board.

Rewards boards are vis­ible to all those who have pref­er­ences to view.  When man­agers login, their pref­er­ences enable them to view only those they have per­mis­sions to view.

Individual’s per­form­ance and par­ti­cip­a­tion are then vis­ible within depart­ments, depart­ment per­form­ance are in com­pet­i­tion with other departments.

Ulti­mately vis­ib­il­ity breeds increased own­er­ship because what gets seen gets done.  Within depart­ments co-workers see who has com­pleted what, and who is still to com­plete devel­op­ment requirements.