Investing in a digital training programme to address skill gaps is one of the most important decisions a company leader can make. But how can learning and development (L&D) managers effectively prove that investing time and resources in employee training and development was worthwhile? Or, that the training was effective in pushing their workforce forward?
Sure, they can use traditional training measurement methods to get an overview of the training outcomes. But measuring training return on investment (ROI) using conventional methods –– from surveys and feedback to analysing performance data, business impact studies, or Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Training Evaluation model — does not always provide the depth and breadth of training data needed to generate actionable reports that could inform actions.
Often, the only tangible data that’s generated amounts to little more than learner progress reports or the number of training completions. L&D managers also tend to struggle to collect the right metrics for their training goals, and end up with siloed data sets that lead to incomplete insights and require hundreds of hours of manual work to sift through.
Plus, many businesses are limited in the budget, personnel, and technology required to get a complete picture of their training efforts. This makes connecting training outcomes directly to business impacts and financial gains difficult.
As the saying goes, if you can’t measure it, you can’t prove or improve it. Which is where New Leaf Technologies’ bespoke Training Intelligence System comes in.
Built using Power BI — a set of software tools and connectors that help you transform data from multiple sources into actionable insights — data is pulled directly from an Application Programming Interface (API) into a database that gets updated multiple times a day. This means learning leaders get real-time insights that can be used to track, report on, and improve their training programs.
Why Do You Need Our Training Intelligence System?
Our Training Intelligence System provides a revolutionary training measurement solution that empowers your business to process, scrutinise, and visualise vast amounts of training data in one user-friendly platform.
Easily monitor and analyse large amounts of training data across various metrics with customised, easy-to-read reports generated in real time. These reports give you detailed insights into learning and development progress, helping you make informed decisions and bridging the gap between data, decision-making, and effective performance mapping.
Key Features of Our Training Intelligence System
- Real-time dashboards for effortless data interpretation across a range of metrics
- Automated administrative reporting
- Personalised dashboards tailored to stakeholder requirements, from course statistics to professional development goals
- Quick and easy report creation and sharing to keep your team aligned and informed
Under the Hood of Our Training Intelligence System
With so much data gathered and organised in a number of useful ways, L&D managers are in a much stronger position to hone in on the success of their training programs –– both in terms of achieving business goals and addressing skill gaps. Here’s how.
Access to Comprehensive Data Analysis
By integrating previously siloed data sets, L&D leaders can access real-time metrics such as actions, participation, engagement, progress and completion rates for all learners via user-friendly, visual dashboards and exportable reports.
You can keep track of all learners, instructors and administrators involved in training at any given time, giving you a bird’s eye view of stakeholders’ participation and engagement.
If you’re running a number of courses at the same time, we provide a useful overview of your learning structures, including details of how many groups or modules are active and available in your program at any given time.
An important metric accessible from the real-time dashboard is training time. Just click a button and you can see which courses are most active, and how many hours of training have been spent on them. Also, if it takes learners a long time to complete learning tracks, you need to know why so you can address it.
Finally, you can easily tally up test scores and pass rates, including individual attempts and averages, to help you make informed decisions on whether your training program is effective or needs adjusting.
Gain Deeper Insights Into Your Training Programs
When you combine diverse data sets, you gain a much more holistic perspective on how well the training impacts learning and real-world performance. Look forward to these valuable insights:
- Combining diverse data from employee feedback, assessment scores, productivity metrics and learner engagement will help you identify skill gaps, recognise performance gaps, and analyse behavioural gaps.
- You can discover patterns in how learners are experiencing your coursework, along with their needs and preferences. From here, you can create improved data-driven learning journeys that cater to different learning styles.
- By integrating data such as usage logs, course statistics, and engagement analytics, you can see whether the modules and courses actually resonate with learners.
- Is your training program a good return on learning investment? By tracking and combining data from different sources, for example, productivity metrics, post-training performance, and cost savings, you’ll get a much better picture of whether it’s been money well spent. You can then use these insights to highlight areas that need to be optimised and make a call on how to allocate your resources better.
- By tapping into our system’s AI-powered advanced data analytics, you can predict future learning needs based on current trends, helping to proactively plan future learning.
- You can combine data from different departments to get a clearer picture of the impact of training across the entire company, not just for individual employees or teams.
Enjoy Full Customisation and Flexibility
Each client’s training needs are unique to their business and industry, which is why we offer tailored solutions. For example, depending on your business requirements and which elements of your training program you want to measure, we will help you create a custom dashboard from which you can generate specific L&D analytics reports.
Data can be represented in various ways to meet a wide range of business needs, and the Training Intelligence system can be white-labelled to suit any business or brand.
Put Our Training Intelligence System To Work
Bridge the gap between data and decision-making and embrace the future of data-driven learning with New Leaf Technologies‘ Training Intelligence System. Together, we can empower your business, nurture the potential of your workforce, and help you make impactful training decisions that enhance your strategy. Get in touch to find out more.
