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Why Learning Institutions Need Our Solution – According to recent Gallup surveys, college and universities focus their employee training efforts primarily in areas of compliance, such as Safety, Active Shooter, Preventing Harassment and Discrimination. But when it comes to improving employee skills, very little is invested.

According to Cornerstone and Ellucian’s 2016 Employee Engagement and Retention in Higher Education survey:

  • 39% of colleges and universities don’t offer any form of employee engagement opportunities such as leadership development, coaching, or recognition programs.
  • Almost 50% of respondents say employee engagement is neither tracked nor measured at their institutions.

Recruiting and hiring the right people is only one step in successful human resources management. Higher Education must deploy professional skills training, if they are to retain and produce top performing employees. A survey conducted during a learning conference identified the top three barriers to innovation in Higher Education:

Ability Platform, used by many colleges and universities, enable learning institutions to overcome these barriers.

  • Integration with internal systems, such HR Portals (i.e. ADP, Workday) and Single Sign-On (SSO), allows Ability Platform to gracefully exist in any Higher Education data environment.
  • Multi-tenant portals enable organization silos to exist within a single database while maintaining their unique branding.
  • Existing PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Video files, as well as streaming videos from services, such as YouTube, Wistia, and Vimeo, can become trackable learning modules without conversion. This saves time and money, while offering instant learning content for groups, committees, and departments.
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Create Leaders, Capable Managers and Effective Employees

By 2020, more than a third of the desired core skill sets of most occupations will change to skills that are not yet considered crucial to the job today. Skills-based training is the ONLY solution for demands that are already changing the workforce environment inside Higher Education.

Here are some skills need by Higher Education employee, if they are to become top performers:

Ability Platform is the solution for Higher Education, with our award-winning, stellar online libraries. Our Learning content is presented as micro-learning modules, 10-minutes or less video lessons focused on improving skills. With libraries of 2500+ videos, organized into 100+ Learning Paths (collections of related lessons put together by subject matter experts), we help you bridge the coming skills gap.

Learn more about our Content Strategy for Top Performers.

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Engaging User Experience

Vendors offering off-the-shelf online content often tout the large size of the content as an advantage. However, they never discuss how many of their courses are opened and completed by learners. Many of these large content providers face challenges, such as:

  • Organizing their courses appropriately.
  • Updating their content in a timely fashion.
  • Offering a consistent user experience.

It's not surprising to discover their learner engagement and completion rates are very low. Often, courses cover large chucks of information, requiring longer time to complete. Materials presented as a collection of slides, with minimal interactive, lack excitement and bore employees.

The good news is that Ability Platform content has 3 to 5 times higher usage and engagement rates than the industry average. Why do we maintain higher rates? The answer is two-fold:

Content

  • Our content is based on micro-learning technology, presented as 10-minute or less video lessons.
  • Every 8 seconds, some movement catches the student's eyes.
  • Colors are pleasing, appropriate for the topic, with intro and exit music.
  • Professional actors present the materials with concise information focused on learning productive skills.
  • Short, concise lessons allow employees to schedule training whenever there are 10-minute gaps in their busy day.

User Experience

  • Ability Platform offers a clean, modern interface, starting with tiles that present the learner's training summaries and status.
  • Each lesson opens to a corresponding Course Home Page to launch the training, or access all assigned learning activities, including prerequisites, assessments, and surveys.
  • Lessons in a Learning Path offers a NEXT LESSON button to encourage "binge learning," when possible.

Learn more about how we engage learners..

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Create Leaders and Capable Managers

In Business, all top performers have common skills such as leadership, communication, negotiation, and presentation to name a few. If they have staying power, they understand work-life balance and time management. They understand the importance of mastering skills. Now, we have a platform to make the learning process easier.

Ability Platform content, and its delivery system, focuses on the common skills all top performers need, through short, award-winning, micro-learning videos and an engaging interface. It's a new category of learning experience and management that fulfils the promise of working smarter with measurable results.

Here are a few Ability Platform features and benefits that makes this the delivery system for top performers:

  • Tile User Interface: Learners current status is displayed in each tile, enabling them to know where they are and make smart training decisions.
  • Keyword Search: Find individual lessons or learning paths using the keyword search feature. Content is presented in a Netflix like experience, engaging the adult learn with images and course details. Learning Paths include the number of lessons or courses assigned. This allows the Learner to plan their time better.
  • Smart Path Technology: Control the order lessons are consumed inside Learning Paths, assign prerequisites, and add supplemental documents to encourage skill retention. Use Flexi-Groups to automatically assign training to job titles, or groups like Onboarding, and committees.
  • Email Notifications: Send reminders, expired training notices, and follow-up surveys with Communication Manager to nudge learners along the training process.
  • On-demand Certificates: Custom certificates are available once the associated lesson or learning path has been completed. Learner history is preserved and available, whether online or exported as a spreadsheet. Now it's easy to update CVs.
  • Intelligent Dashboards: Dynamic dashboard, driven by security profiles, only displays one-click wizards appropriate for their role. Family of tools are presented in their own tile, easy to find and easy to use, without leaving the dashboard page.
  • Master Schedule: Schedule and manage classroom training, whether instructor-led or virtual. Assign documents, surveys and assessments to ensure knowledge transfer is successful.
  • Active Attendance App: Use an easy mobile app to take attendance, even with limited Internet connection. Keep attendance records updated, while the class is in session.
  • Enterprise Features: Ability Platform offers Single Sign-On (SSO), HR Systems integration, and multi-tenant portals for sections, departments and divisions in the organization. This allows every group to have their private entrance, tiles and branding while people, courses and history are maintained in a single database.

Learn more about our learning delivery..

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Leadership

  • Becoming a Great Leader
  • Developing Yourself
  • Effective Delegation
  • Framework for Execution
  • How to Motivate Employees
  • How to Work a Room
  • Leading with DISC
  • Mentoring
  • Mission, Vision, Values
  • Mistakes Leaders Make
  • Motivational Leadership
  • Strategic Leadership
  • Succession Planning
  • Transformational Leadership
  • Unknown Knowns
View courses on Leadership.

Communication

  • Active Listening
  • Assertive Verbal Skills
  • Barriers to Effective Communication
  • Communicating with Confidence
  • Communicating with the C-Suite
  • Healthy Communication
  • How to be a Great Conversationalist
  • Interpersonal Communication
  • Interpersonal Communication for Managers
  • Media Training
  • Nonverbal Communication
  • Persuasive Communication
  • Putdown Offenders
  • Social Cues
  • Speech Writing
  • Straight Talk on Bad Language
  • Verbal Communication
  • Writing Conversationally
View courses on Communication.

Manager Training

  • Analyzing Employee Performance
  • Coaching Skills
  • Concerned Conversations
  • Creating a Work Plan
  • Effective Performance Reviews
  • Employee Recognition
  • Ethics for Managers
  • Giving Feedback
  • Going From Coworker to Boss
  • Helping Employees Use Their Time Wisely
  • Introverts and Extroverts
  • Managing Different Generations
  • Managing for Accountability
  • Managing for Engagement
  • Managing Interns
  • Managing People Offsite
  • Motivating Won't Do's
  • Productivity Through Praise
  • Rethinking Brainstorming
  • S.C.A.M.P.E.R
  • SMART Goals
  • Staying Positive
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Compliance Training

  • Analyzing Employee Performance
  • Coaching Skills
  • Concerned Conversations
  • Creating a Work Plan
  • Effective Performance Reviews
  • Employee Recognition
  • Ethics for Managers
  • Giving Feedback
  • Going From Coworker to Boss
  • Helping Employees Use Their Time Wisely
  • Introverts and Extroverts
  • Managing Different Generations
  • Managing for Accountability
  • Managing for Engagement
  • Managing Interns
  • Managing People Offsite
  • Motivating Won't Do's
  • Productivity Through Praise
  • Rethinking Brainstorming
  • S.C.A.M.P.E.R
  • SMART Goals
  • Staying Positive
View Safety and Compliance courses.
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