Organizations know that trained employees are happier, stay in their jobs longer, and are more productive. In order to keep and grow employees, companies continue to invest in their training and learning and development (L&D) programs. In fact, a LinkedIn Learning Workplace Survey found that the primary focus areas of L&D programs in 2022 was:
- Leadership and management training – 49%
- Upskilling and reskilling employees – 46%
- Digital upskilling / digital transformation – 26%
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion – 26%
(Percent who selected the focus area as one of their top three choices)
If you are new to building employee training and onboarding programs or are looking to grow the courses that you offer, here is the start of list of courses to consider including in your programs. The list has been broken into two categories – soft skills and technical skills. The right courses will depend on your company and your offerings.
Soft skills training for employees
CommunicationHone writing, presentation, personal interaction, and listening skills. |
Leadership DevelopmentLearn the conditions, techniques, and activities which facilitate the development of leaders. |
Conflict ResolutionLearn strategies to build stronger relationships and minimize negativity during conflicts. |
Performance ManagementDiscover processes and systems for managing the performance of individuals, teams and organizations. |
Coaching and MentoringLearn how to help others to leverage their own strengths. |
Time ManagementLearn how to spend more time working toward your high-value goals. |
ManagementLearn how to carry out the planning function of management. |
Decision MakingLearn effective techniques and tools on decision making and problem solving. |
Stress ManagementLearn how to identify stressors, manage and cope with stressful situations and create a plan to reduce or eliminate them. |
Problem SolvingLearn how to identify problem, apply root cause analysis, develop and evaluate solutions. |
Project ManagementLearn how to create a project plan, manage stakeholders and relationships, organize teams, develop a project charter, and build a business case for a project. |
EthicsLearn about frameworks for identifying and resolving ethical dilemmas and challenges. |
Change ManagementDevelop skills and discover strategies and techniques for managing workplace change. |
TeamworkLearn about different workplace behaviours, their effects and how to encourage people to work with each other and get along well. |
Presentation SkillsDiscover how to prepare presentations and visual aids, be interesting, persuasive and to communicate key messages. |
Crisis ManagementLearn how to analyze situations leading to a crisis, evaluate a crisis response, analyze an organization’s public communications and how to conduct analysis to mitigate future crises. |
Interpersonal CommunicationLearn about communicating with different cultures, how to interpret verbal and nonverbal messages accurately and effectively and how to listen effectively. |
Workplace HarassmentIncrease employees’ understanding of what constitutes harassments, including sexual harassment, and its management and prevention. |
Sales CoachingGet techniques on how to improve the relationship between sales professionals and their clients, increase sales performance and close rates. |
Customer ServiceLearn how to understand customers’ needs, how to effectively communicate the customers and strategies to develop solutions to meet their needs. |
Employee technical skills training
Regulatory ComplianceLearn about how to implement operational compliance compared to regulations and standards and how to minimize health and business risks. |
CybersecurityLearn about cybersecurity theory and basic techniques for optimizing security on personal computers and networks. |
Industry rules and regulationsLearn how to abide to specific industry rules that your organization must abide to in order to avoid fines and reputational damage. |
Quality and Quality ControlDiscover statistical quality control concepts and how to apply these to the design and management of quality control processes. |
Health & Safety TrainingThis type of training includes things like handling hazardous materials, fire drills, evacuation plans, and workplace violence procedures. |
Food Safety TrainingLearn about safe handling of food and local regulations. |
Coding and ProgrammingLearn how to design, code, and test software. |
General and Content WritingLearn how to write for your target audience and communicate effectively. |
Data AnalysisLearn about data collection, data visualization, probability and statistics, data structures and algorithms, and how to extract insights from data. |
Social Media ManagementLearn how to create effective social media posts, how to create a strong brand and how to manage social media interactions. |
Products and ServicesLearn about the features and benefits of your organization’s product lines and services. This should also include competitive analysis. |
Franchise ManagementLearn how to start and manage a franchise. Also learn about how to recruit, onboard and manage new franchisees. |
Agile MethodologiesLearn about planning and managing Agile projects using methodologies such as scrum, and lean project management methodologies. |
Data ScienceExplore topics like how to use Python for data analysis, statistics, regression and supervised machine learning. |
How to quickly build in-house training
We at LearnExperts have developed a tool called LEAi, which allows HR, marketing, documentation, training and other teams to take documents, presentations, and wikis already existing in the organization and transforms them into content for knowledge-sharing, training and sales enablement.
The content created by LEAi can be used for all sorts of applications and resources including internal training sessions, step-by-step guides, eLearning, knowledge base articles, presentations, webinars, videos and more.
Features our clients love include:
- Course content writer – Import content from your subject matter experts (SME), like documents, presentations, webpages and wikis, and LEAi writes the learning objectives and foundational content for you in seconds.
- LearnAdvisor – This feature continuously looks for learning best practices that aren’t being followed, provides you suggestions on how to improve it, and offers to automatically change it.
- Microlearning creator – LEAi does the hard work of taking large sections of content and breaking it into smaller courses so it is easier for your learners to take and understand.
- Test question generator – LEAi automatically generates the assessment questions that tests whether your learners grasp the most important aspects of your course.
- Course updater – LEAi intelligently updates changes to your courses in seconds so that you can eliminate the mundane task of updating individual courses.
If you are an overworked HR professional who needs a tool to help you boost your employee training or L&D programs so you can maximize revenues and increase employee development, drop us a note!
