Microlearning
What is Microlearning?
The Microlearning methodology delivers training content in small, manageable chunks. These brief, focused training sessions are designed to meet training objectives by spacing out the practice of skills over time. While Microlearning can use videos, infographics, quizzes, brief audio clips, simple games, or short text messages, it is not limited to these presentation formats. The goal is to deliver training content in the best way possible to make practice sessions accessible to all employees and support sustainable skills mastery within the constraints of modern work schedules.
What outcomes do users of Microlearning see?
Short Simulations
Microlearning content is perfect for delivering training using short simulations built in response to changing customer needs, environmental factors, and objections.
Improved Retention
They help reinforce mastery and application, leading to better retention of new behaviors. Additionally, they lend themselves to reinforcing motivations, keeping outcomes top of mind.
Enhanced Engagement
Microlearning content’s sharply focused nature keeps learners engaged.
Higher Completion Rates
Short, easily “consumed” training events often lead to higher completion rates than longer training sessions.
Creation and Maintenance
Organizations can produce and update Microlearning content cost-effectively, making it a budget-friendly training solution.
Why should I use Microlearning?
Microlearning is particularly valuable in the following situations:
Microlearning works well for learners who prefer flexibility and quick access to information or rarely have large, uninterrupted blocks of time.
Technical skills, product knowledge, and compliance training are good examples of topics that can be broken down into easily digestible segments, making them ideal for a Microlearning approach.
Microlearning content displays well in many formats, allowing employees to access the training from their preferred device, including workstations, laptops, tablets, or smartphones.
The compact nature of each Microlearning lesson allows learners to access their training anytime and anywhere they have an internet connection, including waiting in line, in an office, before a sales call, or over lunch.
While press releases and emails can capture employee attention about important developments, Microlearning can provide immediate, detailed information crucial to job performance, customer satisfaction, or other needs.
Featured Case Study
Mary Kay Case Study
Mary Kay Revolutionizes Onboarding
Mary Kay, a leading multi-level marketing company in the beauty industry, needed a method for training beauty consultants with diverse needs and definitions of success. As the sixth-largest network marketing company globally, Mary Kay had over 3.5 million independent beauty consultants in more than 35 countries, each with unique training program requirements.
Using a microlearning approach crafted by Allen Interactions for customer-centric training, Mary Kay now offers a truly personalized, self-paced, and self-directed learning environment for onboarding their beauty sales consultants.
After trusting Allen Interactions with their training needs, the company experienced the following:
90% engagement level
80% of beauty consultants complete the program
3.5 million learners (Beauty Consultants)
Is Microlearning suitable for my needs?
Microlearning involves delivering training content in short lessons that display well on any device. The methodology can be an excellent option if your organization’s training objectives include higher completion rates, greater engagement, improved retention, and accommodating the needs of time-strapped learners.
You can combine it with or supplement other methodologies where your training goals require an in-depth understanding and mastery of complex topics.
How can Allen Interactions help implement Microlearning?
Allen Interactions has led the interactive online training field for decades, developing new technologies and training methodologies along the way. Over that time, we’ve helped hundreds of organizations like yours use training to create workforces that excel in their roles, from front-line customer service to exceptional sales performance to mastery of industry-specific fundamentals.
As part of our growth as a customer-focused company, we have developed, refined, and proven a comprehensive process that ensures we understand your needs, develop needs-based and goal-driven learning solutions, and then implement them inside your organization, training staff so they can confidently and fearlessly manage the solution.
Customer Testimonials
Allen Interactions created an extremely engaging, interactive sales process course, with complex interactions between sales associates and customers. This pilot resulted in some incredible results!
Kenneth Gregson
Director Variable Operations Learning & Performance, AutoNation
Customer Testimonials
Adults are looking for untraditional learning experiences. Coupled with innovations in core business strategies within, we had the perfect moment to create a seamless experience for the independent sales force with Allen Interactions.
Kathryn Hunt-Siwald
Manager, Sales Education Materials & Strategic Education, Mary Kay
Customer Testimonials
By incorporating fun, engaging content into the Penn Foster online learning experience offered by schools like Penn Foster, we belive our students will be better able to retain the information, not only for their exams, but to apply in the workforce and entirety of their careers as medical professionals.
Dara Warn
Chief Operating Officer, Penn Foster Education Group
How can Allen Interactions help implement Microlearning?
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