Artificial intelligence has quickly embedded itself into most organizations’ workflows. From the more simple applications like email drafting and content generation all the way to advanced, autonomous AI agents, businesses are harnessing AI to work more efficiently and improve workplace productivity.
This exact trend is visible in the world of corporate training as well – with major organizations and their L&D departments are already leveraging AI to improve corporate training outcomes for their employees. Here’s how they’re doing it:
Increasing Employee Engagement With AI Corporate Training
The biggest hurdle for L&D teams? Getting employees to actually want to take part in training and improve their skills. Telling your teams to take an hour or more out of their busy schedules to attend a workshop or watch some generic e-learning content is a tough sell – but recent developments in AI L&D platforms mean that employees can be engaged more effectively than ever before by using two powerful tools:
- Personalization
- Gamification
Neither of these are new employee engagement techniques, but it used to be prohibitively expensive to leverage them, especially in large organizations. Now, AI training for employees allows L&D teams to deploy personalized and gamified corporate training solutions at scale in a way that creates real training impact without the cost.
Personalization
Traditionally, personalizing your teams’ training was a time-consuming process. Every employee’s specific strengths and weaknesses would need to be identified, with L&D departments often relying on already time-starved managers to help scale this process.
Now, the best learning platforms leverage AI to provide customized training for every user automatically. A learner’s performance in one training session can influence the content of the next without the need for manual intervention. With VirtualSpeech, for example, learners can speak to the built-in AI Coach and receive tailored advice on the areas they should focus on next.
Personalization like this gives L&D teams the confidence that their employees are training the skills they need to strengthen their most – while also keeping employees engaged with the training, as the sessions are designed specifically for them as individuals.
Gamification
In the right circumstances, gamification is a powerful engagement driver that can be utilized by L&D teams to increase employee buy-in. Gamification taps into learners’ innate competitiveness and enjoyment of games to make the process of learning more fun – and therefore more engaging.
Today, many AI-powered tools incorporate some elements of gamification. Leaderboards and scoring, as featured in learning platforms like VirtualSpeech, inspire friendly competition amongst employees. Other platforms feature rewards for “levelling up” or progressing through a curriculum, for example. All of these elements make training a more enjoyable experience than sitting in a classroom watching a video or presentation, and help make training stick in learners’ minds for longer as a result.
While L&D teams shouldn’t necessarily gamify every single training session they run, incorporating a learning platform that includes elements of gamification can help boost employee engagement with corporate training.
Saving Time and Money By Leveraging Corporate Training Platforms
Finding the time and budget to run effective corporate training programs is a constant challenge for L&D professionals. Even if you have an eager team that wants to be trained, it can be hard to justify keeping them away from their desks to take part in expensive workshops – even more so if you had to scale those workshops across a large organization.
Modern AI-powered learning platforms have two big advantages in this area that can help L&D teams:
- Scalability
- Cost-effectiveness
These two elements make it easier for L&D teams to deploy training to lots of employees, quickly. The best tools make organizing effective training simple and flexible.
Scalability
Part of what makes corporate training difficult to implement is the scale – especially in large organizations with dispersed teams. Virtual presentations often aren’t engaging and in-person workshops get real expensive, real quick.
The solution lies in corporate training solutions that are built with scalability in mind. For example, VirtualSpeech can be deployed both on-site with virtual reality headsets or directly within your employees’ browsers with no additional tech barriers. This ensures that the platform is accessible to anyone who needs to be trained without having to pay additional equipment or travel expenses.
Cost-Effectiveness
What makes modern corporate learning tools scalable is often also what makes them cost-effective. Traditional training methods are not just expensive – but also run the risk of spiralling further if they don’t hit the mark the first time around.
The AI-powered, personalized training provided by platforms like VirtualSpeech isn’t just cost-effective because of its scalability, but also because your teams get more out of the training when it’s tailored to their specific needs. Targeted training is more effective, which means you’re getting more bang for your buck.
Improving Corporate Training Performance Data Through AI
How do you know what skills your teams need to improve? And how do you prove the return on investment (ROI) of your training program once it’s been rolled out? For the former, you’re often relying on gut feeling and manager feedback, while for the latter no L&D has a perfect answer.
The best AI-powered corporate training platforms, like VirtualSpeech, have two key features to assist L&D teams with this:
- Built-in skill gap analysis
- Detailed analytics and employee improvement metrics
These allow L&D teams to leverage data to provide better training and more potently prove training’s ROI.
Identifying Skill Gaps
If your teams are going to spend valuable time away from their desks to train, it’s vital to ensure they’re using that time to improve the skills that really matter. For example, VirtualSpeech’s admin dashboard provides a detailed overview of your team’s skill gaps and what areas need the most improvement.
This allows you to target your training and development on the areas that will have the most impact on your organization, so you can start seeing ROI sooner. Modern learning platforms should provide the data, allowing L&D teams to make educated decisions about their employee development training.
Advanced AI-Powered Analytics
The more data you have on your learners and their progress, the easier it is to highlight the impact on skill improvement your training program is having. The best corporate training platforms go beyond just reporting on completion rates and instead provide a wealth of data points.
Inside VirtualSpeech’s admin dashboard, for example, you can view learner training data on both an individual- and team-wide level, allowing L&D teams to showcase how your learners key skills have developed as a result of their training.
What’s Next?
As AI-powered corporate training platforms continue to get more powerful, L&D professionals will have even more in their toolkit to help them improve employee training outcomes.
If you want to get started with a powerful, scalable learning platform, reach out to our team and discover how VirtualSpeech can help your employees improve the communication skills essential to their role.
