The learning and development function is like any other business process it must evolve as employees and organizations mature, change and grow.
In order keep up the pace in the competitive environment constant shifting and uncompromising environment learning is a key driver for many organizations to maintain their competitive edge.
Now let’s see what are the 5 trends that are driving the growth of mobile learning in the corporate :
1. Prioritizing the individual
Nowadays organizations are finding difficult in order to find and to keep the talent and they are trying to build lasting relationships with their employees. Few of the companies have updated learning and development process and most of the companies have revisited their learning strategy less than two times over the last 5 years. Even the budget for the learning and development has been increased. So from this, we can understand the company is trying to prioritize the individual more and to retain him in the organization.
2. Increase in global mobility
Most of the employees loved to work on site and by simply sending an employee to an unfamiliar location with no preparation is a recipe for disaster also causing poor productivity and early return. So in order to overcome this situation you can easily train the employees with mobile learning program so that they can engage on the go.
3. Millennials love to get trained
Millennials value training over many other work perks. Many teams we work with including sales team are mobile and are using tablets and other devices for learning is becoming popular. To meet the demanding needs you can make the modules which are accessible to use 24/7
4. Evolving technologies leading to high skill jobs
As the global competition is rising, to meet the training requirements often Mobile learning can be easily tailored and deployed to groups as large or small as you need. Thus mobile learning can help keep staff at different levels of expertise up to date.
5. Shift in content delivery
Employees love to learn informally and they want to learn at their own convenience and most of the organizations are making use of videos as a learning tool to deliver the content over a mobile device as the videos are quite popular and appeal to the younger audience.
As the employees are doing their work somewhere other than the employer’s location by making the modules to go mobile we can deliver the training content across the mobile so that learners can consume the content anywhere and anytime. The business is also finding new solutions to meet the demands of the new employee who craves for greater flexibility and work-life balance thus giving more scope to mobile learning in the future.
