4 Expert Strategies to Improve Employee Training

It’s the 21st Century and continuous education is more important than ever. In the last 20 years, we’ve experienced an explosion in information, technology, and our already dynamic industry has rapidly evolved (robots, EHRs, HIPAA, so many compliance rules!). Changes in healthcare — including guidelines, code sets, and regulations — complicate our work and require us to stay on top, stay informed, and keep learning.

Join our free webinar, "4 Smart Strategies for Better Employee Training," and learn how to incorporate these four smart learning strategies into your compliance training for the most effective training yet:

There are four smart strategies you can use to improve learning and training. Incorporating these techniques into your compliance program will allow you to get the most out of your compliance training and education.

Four Smart Strategies For Effective Learning

1. Balance between formal and informal learning: There are two types of learning: Informal and formal. Informal learning is finding knowledge and information that you need to help solve everyday problems in your workplace. The key to effective informal learning is to for the individual to clearly identify their questions, find credible sources for the information, apply what they’ve learned back to their life (and workplace), and share their new knowledge with others. Formal learning, is exactly what it sounds like, and often includes a teacher with a set curriculum (i.e. compliance training sessions). This can take place in a face-to-face environment, online, or a combination of both. A winning ratio for effective learning is a 70-20-10 formula, where you learn 70 percent from experience, 20 percent from interacting with others, and 10 percent from formal education/training events.
2. Personalize learning to your unique needs and interests: Every single person is a unique individual with a different background, goals, needs, strengths and weaknesses. It’s important to create an individualized learning plan that can be customized for each person’s specific needs or style of learning. For training programs to be as effective as possible, personalize them.
3. Seeking feedback from those with more experience: Receiving feedback is key to learning and growing. Sometimes you don’t see opportunities for growth or improvement unless someone or something points it out. It’s the same for all of us. This is why a formal assessment is so useful. Formal assessments can help your employees (or yourself) to understand strengths and weaknesses.
4. Adopt technology to help you achieve personal and professional development: Whether we like it or not, we’re living in a digital world where technology is king. And for a reason: it works. Instructional technology provides individuals and organizations with the ability to create engaging learning environments and to facilitate both formal and informal learning. Technology provides an opportunity to create tailored learning environments for you and your colleagues and to extend your competency and expertise.

Shape your training around these four strategies enhances retention. Remember, everyone is an individual. Everyone in your organization learns differently. Taking this into consideration, and making it easy to learn, guarantees more efficient training and a more effective compliance program.