The Smart Way to Do More With Less: Turn Every Training Into Strategic Intelligence
As an L&D professional, you're increasingly pressured to meet heightened expectations with fewer resources. The budget squeeze is real, and expectations keep rising. On top of that, you're charged with ensuring training outcomes are visible and valuable and making strategic decisions grounded in data.
Problem (Already) Solved
Because you're already training your people, you have more of a strategic advantage to "do more with less" than you know.
The key to making it happen lies in realizing that ROI doesn't stem solely from what your employees learn from the training, but also from what your organization can learn from its learners.
Training time can go far beyond what it is now and become an insight-rich opportunity that enables you to move training from a "requirement" to a strategic lever for improved organizational performance.
Not Just Any Data Will Do
Measuring who took the course, what they learned, and how much they liked it doesn't tell you if people will actually use the training—yet that's where most analytics stop.
Atana offers a different, behavior-based training + insights approach, grounded in established learning science, that helps learners and leaders get more out of each and every training event.
- Behavioral training courses include self-reflection questions that give voice to learners' legitimate challenges and obstacles they feel they may face in using the behaviors being taught.
- Aggregated data gained from the in-course assessments reveals how likely employees are to actually apply the learning.
- L&D professionals and organizational leaders are able to understand and address barriers to learning application–barriers often linked to workplace culture issues hidden beneath the surface.
- Organizations can see how the training has met its goals and had a positive impact on learning goals and overall organizational KPIs.
Watch the clip below to see how learning opportunities produce rich data that allows you to do more with less.
Amanda Hagman, Ph.D., Chief Behavioral Scientist, Atana
From Training Provider to Strategic Partner
Atana provides learners with an exceptional training experience, yes. But that is just the beginning. Through the data-backed insights and follow-up recommendations provided after training, L&D:
- Gains Organizational Clarity – You see what's working and what's not, and can identify risk hotspots before they become issues.
- Gets Important Context – You can compare your organization’s data to national and industry averages and also drill your organization's data down to the divisional or location level to determine if challenges are local or systemic.
- Is able to take Precision Action – You're able to apply tailored solutions, not a one-size-fits-all approach, then track behavior change over time to prove ROI.
- Can have a Real-Time Partnership with Organizational Leaders – You're empowered to have data-informed conversations with business leaders about training's impact on business outcomes and increase L&D's role in the organization.
To see what this would look like in your organization, request a demo.
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About the Author
Amanda Hagman, Ph.D. | Chief Scientist: Behavioral Data Science
Dr. Hagman is an expert in behavior change and intervention science, adept at turning data into practical solutions that drive meaningful change in workplace behaviors. With a background in program evaluation and learning analytics, she uses predictive insights to foster positive behavioral outcomes on a large scale. As head of research at Atana, Dr. Hagman integrates behavioral change principles into training courses tackling common workplace issues. Her work targeting critical behavioral goals is designed to deliver concrete and lasting improvements for organizations.
