Frontline Learning Guide
A comprehensive roadmap for frontline learning
Chapter 6
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Top barriers to frontline success (and solutions from real-life L&D leaders)
- Chapter 2: 4 key capabilities to empower your frontline
- Chapter 3: How to make learning simple for your frontline
- Chapter 4: 4 steps to make learning valuable for your frontline
- Chapter 5: 4 ways to go beyond digital learning
- Chapter 6: 5 tools to motivate frontline workers to come back for training
5 tools to motivate frontline workers to come back for training
Training doesn’t end when employees complete the session. To make learning stick and become part of their daily routine, you need tools that keep frontline workers engaged and motivated.
Here’s how to turn training into a consistent habit:
1. Integrate communication tools alongside learning features
Blend communication tools with your learning platform to create a more interactive and integrated training experience. This synergy makes learning an ongoing conversation rather than a standalone activity, ensuring employees stay connected and engaged with the content and their peers.
2. Make learning engagement part of location manager goals
Incorporate learning engagement into the KPIs for location managers. This alignment ensures that managers are actively involved in promoting and supporting employee development, making learning a shared responsibility and a core aspect of managerial success.
3. Apply optional gamification tactics across the learning experience
Implement gamification strategies thoughtfully to enhance engagement. Customize gamification elements to fit your organizational context and offer diverse options for employees to engage in ways that resonate with them, ensuring that gamification drives meaningful interaction.
4. Leverage peer-to-peer influence to promote continuous learning
Encourage employees to support each other in maintaining a learning routine. By fostering a culture where peers motivate one another to stay engaged with training, you harness natural social dynamics to keep learning active and relevant in everyday work.
5. Reward employees for their ongoing commitment to learning
Recognize and reward employees who consistently participate in learning activities. Tangible rewards and acknowledgment for their dedication to continuous development reinforce the value of learning and encourage ongoing engagement.
Modernizing training is a continuous process
Modernizing training involves not just updating content but rethinking how learning is delivered and experienced.
It involves creating an agile, personalized and seamlessly integrated training environment into daily workflows. By leveraging adaptive technologies and embedding learning tools directly into work processes, you can ensure that training is not just an event but a continuous, relevant part of your employees’ everyday experiences.