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Drive Success with Online Employee Upskilling

As businesses and learners move further into a digital-forward era, upskilling employees with the capabilities critical to your organization’s growth and success is necessary to move ahead.

NovoEd’s approach to online training lets you customize training to match your organization’s goals, including functional upskilling in areas like marketing, supply chain management, customer service, and logistics. Learners practice their skills in the context of your business, boosted by the support of peer learning, mentoring, coaching, and group collaboration. Remain competitive in today’s digital world while meeting the demands of your modern customers.

Advance your business-related capabilities

Align capabilities with key goals

Focus your upskilling on the key business capabilities your organization needs to thrive — from marketing and supply chain management to customer service and diversity and inclusion. Employees will directly apply new learnings to their roles, driving real business growth.

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Connect your global learners

Connect learners with peers, mentors, managers, and leadership in similar functions. Support and coaching is tailored to your organization’s culture, values, and strategic direction in the context of specific roles and pain points. Open learners’ minds through collaborative group projects, hands-on activities, shared insights, and peer feedback.

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Flexible learning journeys to expand reach and impact

Transform instructor-led and virtual-instructor-led training by seamlessly blending together the best of synchronous and asynchronous learning. Create configurable journeys that address the needs of divergent learner populations, and bring them together where it counts. Push leadership development downstream and expand the reach of high-impact professional development opportunities to broader populations of learners. With NovoEd, you deliver highly effective leadership training at scale to a much broader set of executives, leaders, and managers.

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Testimonials

What Professionals Say

“I think the acquisition of LXD skills, coupled with your platform, is very timely. As the rest of the world is grappling with how to convert courses online due to the current situation, we are already ahead of the game.”

Iris Garcia
Global HR Shared Services, Chevron

“I believe the power of the learner-centric experience created at PerkinElmer is the integration of social and collaborative features like threaded discussion, mentoring capabilities, and leaderboards which have been key in building our employees’ skills and capabilities.”

Jennifer Sullivan, Chief Learning Officer, PerkinElmer
Jennifer Sullivan, Chief Learning Officer, PerkinElmer

“[NovoEd’s] ‘assignment/task management’ functionality is one of the solution’s strengths, bringing a whole other dimension to self-paced courses – which allows the learner to practice the knowledge they have gained with either peer or expert feedback.”

Anonymous
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of buyers agree: Increased performance readiness

84%
of learners feel more connection to their orgs

71%
of learners say they are more aligned with their organizational goals

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  • A talent development specialist will reach out within 24 hours to discuss your challenges and needs
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Upskilling employees involves training them to acquire new knowledge, skills, and competencies relevant to their job roles. Through an online platform like NovoEd, you customize training focusing on critical functions such as sales, supply chain management, and human resources or skill gaps. A good program combines interactive learning experiences, collaborative activities, real-world projects, and peer feedback to engage employees in acquiring relevant knowledge and practical skills.

Upskilling employees is vital in adapting to technological advancements and enabling organizations to stay competitive in a rapidly evolving business landscape. Employees enhance their knowledge and skills through training, boosting their performance and productivity and thus increasing morale and job satisfaction. Lastly, in this quickly evolving landscape – technological advancements, new industry trends, regulatory changes – upskilling prepares the workforce for future challenges and opportunities.

Upskilling employees improves productivity, fosters innovation, and enhances employee retention. Upskilling employees equips them with the necessary skills and knowledge to perform their jobs more effectively, leading to increased efficiency. Also, continuously upgrading employee skills contributes to a culture of innovation and adaptability, enabling the organization to stay competitive to meet industry demands and agile enough to respond to changing customer needs.