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SELECTING A LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Are You Equipped To: - Meet workforce learning needs? - Deliver personalised and engaging learning solutions? - Develop organisational capability for now and the future?Here are 10 tips to select the right, modern Learning Management System (LMS) for your organisation:

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions allow organisations to move with speed and agility.Make sure your LMS is a cloud-based solution that keeps you up to date with best practices in learning, talent management and technology.

Ensure your LMS is based in the cloud

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A modern LMS extends beyond training management and e-Learning to house self-directed, on-the-job and social learning options in a single platform.This allows your employees to personalise their learning experience, and you to increase the scale, visibility and impact of your L&D offering.

Consolidate all learning on a single platform

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Over 50% of employees want to learn when and where it suits them.1 An LMS that enables learning content that is mobile-optimised and available on demand lets you capitalise on this preference and makes learning available anytime, anywhere.

Ensure your LMS is mobile-optimised

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Tauber, T. Investing in learning content: redefining priorities to keep up with the modern learner. Bersin byDeloitte, 2015.1.

Ensure your LMS makes learning engaging and easy to consume

A modern LMS should deliver microlearning options as well as support different mediums from videos to podcasts and enable the integration of gaming principles to engage today’s young and busy learners.

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Consider a modern LMS offering that can facilitate on-the-job learning by serving up competency-based development suggestions, or creating a learning exchange where employees can promote and sign-up for learning experiences, projects and secondments.

Ensure your LMS caters for on-the-job learning activities

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Sharing knowledge is the number one learning preference of employees today.2 A modern LMS should empower employees to share content and develop new learning material, and use rating and review functionality to support peer evaluations and recommendations.

Ensure your LMS supports user-generated content and peer sharing

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Johnson, D. (lead author) Aligning L&D to the rest of the organization. Bersin by Deloitte, 2015.2.

Learning supports speed-to-competence for new starters, helps employees achieve their performance goals and is part of ongoing career development.Your LMS should seamlessly integrate with onboarding, performance management and career development processes – ideally being one module within a Unified Talent Management solution.

Ensure your LMS sits within an overall talent management solution

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Make sure your LMS is powerful enough to enable you to consolidate and analyse real time data to evaluate the impact of learning, make smart decisions and guide learning spend.

Ensure your LMS includes powerful analytics functionalities

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Select an LMS that makes it easy to administer and track organisation-wide learning and deliver SCORM compliant e-learning.This will reduce costs and enable your learning professionals to focus on value-adding activities.

Ensure your LMS manages administration and compliance requirements

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Partner with an experienced LMS provider that will optimise their offering for your business.Opt for a fixed price implementation and confirm that your licensing fees include post-sales support to avoid hidden costs.

Understand your LMS vendor’s service model and partnering approach

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