For many companies, the pandemic provided a huge transition to remote work. Even though work-from-home teams are common now, the need to train employees hasn’t changed. 

There’s certainly a challenge in thinking through how to transform your training program into an online course. You may need to take extra measures to ensure employees receive enough training support virtually. Not only can it improve the quality of work, but it can also make employees still feel connected and engaged as a remote worker. 

If you’re looking to take your employee training online, we’ve gathered a few tips for training your remote workforce that can work for a variety of businesses.

Review Your Initial Training Offering

Before you build or refine your online training courses, review what you currently have. How well does it translate online? Or, is your training already online, but does it reflect current company policies? 

Evaluate how far you and your team have come accomplishing the original goals of your training courses. Identifying your areas for improvement allows you to set specific milestones that you can use as markers for success. Use those goals to refresh or rebuild your courses online, keeping in mind both company-wide or department-wide goals.

Keep the Company Mission in Mind

Without daily in-person interactions in your office, it can be easy to lose sight of your company values. Keep values top of mind by incorporating them into your training. Think of using a short quiz or reflection activity to ensure employees keep your mission in mind. 

In addition, make sure your lessons have clear objectives attached. Not only will this help you craft the learning material and make it relevant, but it will motivate individuals to achieve whatever learning outcomes you have specified. The objectives can be lifted right from your current mission, vision, and goals for maximum alignment. 

Get Employee Feedback 

The best way to know what your employees need in a training program is to ask. Individualized, private consultations with each employee give you a chance to discover what they need to know. Short, anonymous surveys can also help you gather information they may not admit directly. 

Make sure to ask not only about the training materials themselves, but the online classroom experience as well. Some workers may embrace the new technology, while others may be floundering. Address their pain points and ensure workers know how to navigate the training site.  

You can also take advantage of features like micro lessons with quick check-in quizzes or exit surveys. These short and frequent lessons both make it easier for employees to add it into their workday and also provide you with constant feedback.

Create a Centralized Training Location 

Your staff can’t train and take online courses if they can’t find them. Even if your team has passed the modules for each training course, they may still want to access the training materials for a refresher or if they’ve forgotten a certain step. Or, you may have dedicated trainers that need ready access to all of your training materials in order to onboard new employees or coach those they’re mentoring. 

Create a centralized training resource that can be accessed remotely by everyone on your staff. Think of creating a landing page just for training courses, with a login to a cloud-hosted library of courses.

Allow For Choices 

One of the benefits of remote work is the flexibility. Your training offerings should take advantage of this flexibility. Gone are the scheduled, all-day training sessions. Instead, look to create courses that are optimized for learning on the go and designed to be accessible from a variety of devices, as some remote workers may be using their phones or tablets to accomplish training. 

Content that’s optimized for many types of devices gives your team greater flexibility to complete the courses. Allowing flexibility with training accommodates everyone’s schedules, a consideration that your team will appreciate.

Make Training Interactive

Remote work is solitary by nature. The lack of in-person environments can make employees feel less supported. One way to build human connection is through interactive training programs. You can facilitate this through group video training, discussion boards, and messaging channels. 

You can also make training interactive through gamification features like points, levels, and leaderboards. Learners can see their performance level and where they sit in relation to peers. When training is interactive and gamified, it helps the students pay more attention and can help develop proficiency.

LearnDash Can Help 

Remote training will help your employees enhance their skills and allow for some autonomy over how they move through trainings. Not to mention it helps keep a remote workforce more connected to your organization. 

If you’re looking to develop training for remote workers, LearnDash can help. Solutions like Focus Mode, Learning Paths, Quizzes, and Drip Feeds help you build training programs that keep remote workers engaged from the start. Plus, with an easy-to-use backend all built on WordPress, you own your content and can tweak and update it whenever you want. 

Try out our demo and see for yourself. Explore how you can create an engaging training program that prioritizes development as employees navigate a remote work life.