As an HR professional, you know that effective talent management is crucial for your business’s success. In a changing economic landscape where employee expectations fluctuate rapidly, you need a robust strategy that keeps people engaged while lowering attrition. Bridge LMS can help. It’s an easy-to-use learning and development platform that enhances employee development and retention.
Keep reading to see exactly how you can ace employee development with Bridge.
Employee Engagement Boosters
Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace: 2024 report found that employees who are actively engaged in their work are more likely to have a positive sense of well-being while being better able to drive results for their businesses. In fact, when employee engagement in a business goes up, profitability can improve by as much as 23%!
Boosting engagement at your organization will likely lead to increased productivity, innovation, and happiness at work. Common methods to increase engagement include:
- Providing meaningful work that challenges employees at an appropriate level.
- Empowering employees to focus on their own careers and to continuously work to improve themselves and their skills.
- Fostering a positive culture with clear and open communication.
Employing these methods in the real world can sometimes prove easier said than done. The good news is that the right choice of LMS can make all the difference, helping you create a culture where learning, development, and constant improvement are valued.
Bridge can empower you to:
Understand What Employees Value at Work
Our interactive card game, Bridge Career Drivers, helps leaders facilitate positive and productive conversations about their reports' values. It's a fun, engaging way for leaders to understand what motivates people to perform well at work, so they can provide meaningful and challenging work for every member of their team.
Help Employees Close Skills Gaps—Fast
Learning and developing can be incredibly rewarding. Bridge can help you give employees control over their own development and go above and beyond mandatory training. Personalized Development Plans give employees an invaluable framework for identifying growth opportunities, enrolling in relevant learning, and tracking their progress over time.
Create a Collaborative Environment
One in five employees globally report experiencing loneliness, which can damage their ability to actively engage in their work. Bridge can help create the community employees need. Skills Communities facilitate seamless peer learning and mentoring. Employees simply indicate which skills they need to work on, and they're automatically recommended colleagues who could help them overcome those shortcomings. This community-based approach isn't just good for closing skills gaps fast, it also strengthens cohesion and helps employees feel that they’re part of a team!
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Performance Improvement Strategies
Forget about yearly performance reviews! Effective performance management is a continuous process that involves setting objectives, assessing progress, and providing ongoing coaching and feedback to ensure that employees meet their goals and realize their career aspirations. These responsibilities often rest on the shoulders of managers, who can make or break employee productivity and engagement. According to Gallup, managers can account for as much as 70% of the variance in team employee engagement!
A performance management strategy should align individual performance with the organization's overall strategic objectives while providing both reports and managers with everything they need to keep performance on track.
Here’s how Bridge can help you create a positive, supportive culture in which accountability and high performance are valued:
Effective Feedback Tools Keep Development on Track
Requesting stop-start-continue or skills feedback couldn't be easier on Bridge! Both managers and their reports can request feedback from colleagues or leaders in just a few clicks.
Bridge also makes 1:1s and performance review meetings more productive. Managers can easily share agendas and templated frameworks to keep conversations productive. Behind the scenes, HR can track how often meetings are happening.
Data-Powered Insights Mean Employees Get All the Support They Need
Bridge gives managers visibility over employee progress, empowering them to step in and offer support when it's required. They can track course enrollments, completion, and performance with easy-to-interpret charts and graphs. This helps them form a clear picture of their reports' progress over time.
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Real World Results: How Bridge Helped One of the UK's Largest Fast Food Chains Take Talent Management to the Next Level
When choosing an LMS for your talent management strategy, you want to be sure that it will produce real results—boosting both employee engagement and retention across departments.
This is exactly what we helped one of the UK's largest fast food chains do. With 1,200 stores and a rapidly growing workforce, this company needed a scalable solution that would make talent management easier across all locations by providing engaging and consistent training.
The organization was struggling with an outdated system and could not support worker and manager fluidity across its locations. Bridge stepped in to launch a hybrid learning strategy that combined virtual coursework, peer collaboration, and face-to-face learning, while accounting for the complexity of a dispersed workforce.
Through Bridge Journeys, employees can now track their learning progress, submit work for review, and receive ongoing feedback, strengthening accountability and knowledge retention across the organization.
With Bridge Analytics, the company's learning and development team is also better able to assess performance. They can easily observe and assess managers' application of skills and behaviors during shifts and track face-to-face training and coaching conversations. This data has helped the learning and development team create a more structured and impactful training experience that keeps employees and managers engaged.
Since partnering with Bridge, this organization has seen:
- An 80% improvement in key performance and service metrics
- 1.5x increase in worker productivity
- 2x higher customer satisfaction rates
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We Can Help You Create the Most Effective Talent Management Strategy
With Bridge, you can create a talent management strategy that drives top results! Get in touch with us today to set up a demo or take a product tour in your own time.
