The past decade has seen an immense evolution in technology. Gone are the days of the once-a-year software update, replaced with monthly or even weekly software updates to download, newer and faster hardware to purchase, and the latest and greatest cell phone to buy. With this constant change, how can we all keep up?
Here are five tips that will improve your New Technology User Adoption.
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Those of us who have worked through botched technology roll-outs know that those shiny, exciting tech additions will quickly turn disastrous if the new users have little interest in it, and struggle to adopt the technology. It's important to understand that implementing new technology that ensures high user adoption will be different for all organizations, industries and departments.
Think of an employee, that doesn't enjoy working with a newly implemented CRM. Their constant negativity about it has begun to poison the people around them, that might have otherwise openly adopted the new system.
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If your sales, service or marketing teams simply aren’t using your Salesforce software to help them be more effective at their jobs is it their fault?
Probably not.
The real problem is more likely rooted in the lack of adequate training.
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Many organizations put the investment into a Salesforce platform and await the magic to start! What actually ends up happening however, can be a shocker to leadership and frustrating to management who needs to provide results.
The truth is, like many other new software implementations, a big part of successful integration across users depends on the acceptance to change on part of the employees.
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Planning for the best strategy to effectively train up employees for a new change can be a challenge.
There are many factors to consider like available resources, the target audience, timing and milestones. Are you going to work with a fully internal learning team or look to external partners to assist?
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Keeping up to speed with new technology in today’s global marketplace is essential to remaining competitive and is a never-ending challenge for companies. For Learning Leaders this means creating effective training and development to up skill employees, especially sales and service teams.
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It can be very frustrating to see poor training results following the completion of a new corporate learning project.
As a Learning Leader, you may think you have taken all of the right steps to ensure the best training and development event possible.
You had a strong team of Instructional Designers design the program based on your brief. Experienced technical developers created the program that followed. You even hired a team of contract corporate trainers to carry out the training company-wide. So why did it fail?
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Companies need to do more than simply provide employee training.
Did you know up to 90% of corporate training is forgotten in the first week of the training event.
Even worse, 50% of that gone in the first hour following the training?
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With what seems like never ending updates or launches of the latest and greatest software, your organization simply can’t afford to not keep up. And so, while companies like Adobe Inc., Google and Salesforce are making changes to their offerings, your training and development needs to constantly be thinking about the best way increase new technology user adoption and support your teams for the best customer service and sales experience possible. Implementing your new software training can be tricky, especially when you consider all the factors that are involved with creating the optimal learning environment.
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“Oh great, a new sales software tool, I can’t wait to take the training to learn how to use it,” said no one ever!
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