Reasons Technology Training Fails

Many organizations successfully integrate new technology, but what happens when the training fails? According to Forbes, it has never been more important for a company to improve technology user adoption than it is today.

With US companies spending over $70 billion on training annually, it may be shocking to learn that almost 90% of newly learned skills are forgotten within one year - "Forgetting Curve". It may also be surprising to learn that budget is not the key factor determining the success, or failure of the training.

Poorly implemented technology training can have a negative impact on productivity, morale, and revenue. Awareness of the common reasons that training fails will enable your organization to avoid it happening to you and to ensure successful implementation of new technology by putting an effective user adoption plan in place.

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How to Implement a Workday Training Program to Ensure High User Adoption

 

With business strategies and processes constantly changing due to both internal as well as external factors, it’s important for companies to continue adapting to these changes. Ensuring that your staff are trained is one area that you must keep up with to ensure you match the pace of the ever-changing workplace demands.

Consequently, there is a necessity to have a mechanism that ensures employees stay afloat with trends in the business world. Regular training and updates to the human resources management system are vital for a business to remain agile.

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Strategies to Increase Adoption of New Technology

 

Technology has become a critical tool in every business, which helps to maintain competitive advantage. It’s also ever changing, with new features and options coming out every year. So, how can you and your team stay Up-to-date?

Changes to technology often impact your employees, as many aren’t willing to accept the change with open arms. By implementing technology training and explaining the usefulness of the tools for both the business and their workflows can have a huge impact on your success. Implement  strategies to make it easy to understand these tools, increase employee productivity and help your employees embrace the new technology.

 

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7 Steps to Lead Your Sales Team to Success  

As a sales leader, you always have a keen eye on your targets. Ensuring that you meet the monthly or quarterly goals is a measure of your teams’ performance, how well you are doing based on your competitors and in many cases, it can be a measure of personal success. 

Leading or motivating your sales team can sometimes be challenging. Perhaps you sell physical products and your team is faced with inventory or logistic challenges. Maybe they don’t have the in-depth technical knowledge required to promote product or service features or benefits? Or, perhaps the sales team is frustrated with red tape, or over complicated internal processes. 

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Selecting a Training Company to Implement Technology and Change

As a Leader, you likely have goals to implement strategic initiatives that keep your business running or more so implement new ideas that compete in a world of innovation, growth and constant change.

It’s likely your new technology or project has a goal to increase profitability, find synergies or fix a problem you deal with. If this goal isn’t achieved, you learn from it and try something else.

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