HR learning: 06 Nov, 2017

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Here’s what the lack of training can cost your company

Organizations which side line learning and development efforts face the risk of reduced employee productivity, low engagement levels and reduced profitability 

Training is a part of most organizational agendas, yet companies still grapple with fundamental questions when it comes to truly embracing a learning culture. A primary point of contention is whether investing in training makes a significant difference? HR and businesses experts have seen that training offers many people-centric advantages- higher engagement levels, ability to attract the right talent, and better productivity. But do all these gains translate to business benefits? This may be hard to decipher, considering that learning outcomes are often intangible and embedded subtly in the people-outcomes. Business leaders who are often skeptical ask the question, “Does more training lead to more profitability?” The answer is “yes” and organizations that do not take up training as a key priority stand to suffer.

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The What, Why and How of Mobile Learning

With 2.3 billion people across the globe using social media and over half of web traffic now coming from mobile devices, its no surprise that mLearning is scoring high on the popularity meters.

Mobile Learning or mLearning is no longer a novel phenomenon. A few years ago, it took the learning industry by storm; presenting an opportunity to training companies and L&D departments to leverage the on-the-go time of their learners.  In India specifically, the mobile phones bypassed the ‘personal computing’ revolution and jumped straight into a ‘mobile communication and computing’ revolution by supplanting landline phones and desktop computers as primary communication tools. Today, however, mLearning is a must-have in all domains! And fuelling its immense popularity is its easy availability and affordability. 

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Converge India 2017: Pulling it together and Getting it right

At the Cornerstone Converge India 2017, Nishchae Suri, Partner and Head KPMG Academy and Madhura Dasgupta Sinha, Head Employee Experience at IDFC Bank talk about how embracing technology has helped them to innovate and transform in their respective organizations.

Technology is enabling organizations on an unimaginable scale. It is changing the way we live and work. 

KPMG:

KPMG Academy has inculcated technology in the way they curated their learning parameters. It believes in the adage: Failing to learn is learning to fail

It believed in Creating a strategic intent for learners to engage with learning, help client tackle business challenges through strategic capability development initiative, combine academic excellence with industry expertise to craft a PRACADEMIC (Practitioners and Academicians) approach to design and delivery.

What the KPMG Learning Academy stands for

·         Connecting content to context

·         Connecting learning to business

·         Connecting design to technology

·         Connecting activities to outcomes

In the next few years, KPMG Academy wants to Improve the learning maturity of corporate India, play a strategic role in demand and supply of talent, and Create learning that aligns to the learner’s sense of purpose with help of AI, social learning, digital payments, Mobile learning, predictive analysis, augmented and virtual realities. 

IDFC Bank: 

2 years ago, when IDFC Bank wanted to establish itself as the 83rd bank in the already overcrowded banking space, it knew it was a humongous task. 

The challenges that they faced were how to attract the right talent, how to conduct business in the diverse locations – network quite wide, and customer experience. 

What were the solutions? The Bank realized that the way forward is to communicate, connect and collaborate. The foremost thing the bank did was to create an employee experience par excellence – creating touchpoints for the employees, right from generating the employee ID, visiting cards, laptop, phone line-ups are ready. Once the internal customers are motivated, and energized then they will create the ‘wow’ experience for the external customers. Every employee in the IDFC Bank have relationship manager.