The Top Corporate Training Considerations of 2022, 2023

Corporate training is one of the most important investments any business can make. Well-trained employees provide higher-quality customer service and are more likely to stay motivated in their roles. According to an Axonify study, 92% of employees say that the right kind of formal training improves their engagement. Of course, the keyword here is the right kind of training. 

In the last few years, training modalities have changed significantly. Workforces are increasingly hybrid, digital transformation is widespread, and companies are coping with rapid market changes like inflation.

What Are the Top Corporate Training Challenges in 2022?

Effective training programs have always been crucial for organizations — but in the last few years, training requirements have evolved significantly. Workforces are becoming increasingly hybrid, digital transformation is widespread, and companies are coping with rapid market changes like inflation.

An effective corporate training program can help organizations navigate these changes while boosting employee productivity, reducing turnover, and enhancing workplace culture.

Here are the top corporate training challenges in 2022 and how your organization can address them.

How a Virtual Producer Improves Your Corporate Training

Now that so many workplaces rely on remote employees, organizations need to ensure that virtual training programs run smoothly. Virtual Producers, also called remote producers or virtual collaboration specialists, support virtual training delivery.

Virtual Producers specialize in the technical side of virtual training programs and events. They work with other stakeholders in the training program, like course designers, virtual instructors, and facilitators, to gather materials, configure software, provide instructions, and troubleshoot any issues that arise during and after corporate training.

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When you take a flight, do you watch the airplane safety video? Be honest.

Many inflight safety videos are good examples of what NOT to do in corporate training videos. They are often boring and if you look around the plane, pretty much no one pays attention to them.

Several years ago, Virgin America tried to address this issue by producing an animated safety video featuring wacky characters. The voice over was delivered in a mildly sarcastic tone, as if to say, “Yeah, we know you’ve seen this a hundred times but we still have to show it so at least we can try to make you smile”.

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Does your company experience this corporate training challenge? With constant changes in information and technology, employees know they need to be continuously learning to deliver peak performance in their jobs. Yet they are so busy, they struggle to find time for learning and development.

Consider these stats:

• 1% of a typical work week or just 24 minutes is all most employees spend on learning and development
• To learn what they need for their jobs, 70% of employees access search engines and 50% to 60% look for online courses
• 30% of employees do most of their work somewhere other than their employer’s location¹

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It has been widely reported that a work culture supporting employee engagement leads to greater employee retention. The Gallup survey “State of the American Workplace” found that only one-third of employees are “engaged” at work – they love their jobs and work hard every day to improve their organizations. That means two-thirds of employees are not engaged – 51% are “just there” and 16% are “actively disengaged”, miserable in their jobs and destroying much of the good work done by engaged employees.¹

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Emily was just promoted – she is now manager of the customer service team for student banking at a large financial institution. She is excited about her new position, and also a bit nervous as this is her first experience leading a team.

As a new manager, Emily wants to succeed and the first step is improving her management skills. She has been enrolled in her company’s three-day manager’s course which begins in two weeks – but she wants to start training now. With her days suddenly full of back to back meetings, when can she squeeze in professional development time?