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Software dominates the workdays at every organization. With the advent of Software as a Service (SaaS), API and microservice app development, and other technological advances, finding a selection of applicable software packages is easier now than ever. However, the ROI of many, if not most, software investments takes a hit due to underutilization of the app’s functionality.

The degree of utilization depends upon who you ask—consulting giants like McKinsey and Gartner peg it at 10-20%, while software makers such as Adobe and Microsoft give it a more generous 20-30%. Any way you cut it, the unused portion of your apps represents potential value your organization can tap. Well-crafted, engaging training provides the key to unlocking this potential. As Bill Gates states, “Many software investments fail to deliver their full potential due to inadequate training and support.

Why Invest in Software Training?

Mastering any skill, including fully utilizing software capabilities, starts with learning. Compelling, engaging, and adaptable software training transforms employees from basic users to software experts, significantly boosting utilization rates and maximizing the return on the organization’s software investments.

To fully capitalize on your software investments, it’s crucial to ensure that your team can effectively utilize all available features and functionality, and the only way to do that is through excellent training.

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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)

Mary Kay Revolutionizes Onboarding & Sales Enablement

Mary Kay, a large beauty multi-level marketing company, needed a way to train beauty consultants with a large variety of needs and perceptions of success.

Mary Kay wanted to increase the knowlege and skills of their consultants related to sales and customer service skills, company culture, motivation and determination, product knowledge, workflow, technolgogy and tools, team building, and incentives.

Click the video above to learn how we helped Mary Kay build a truly effective and unique learning solution.

Software Training Expertise

Our SAVVY program design and development approach is a significant differentiator of Allen Interactions Software Training. Rather than applying an off-the-shelf development template, we typically spend two full days listening to you describe and define everything pertinent to our program development efforts, such as:

  • Training objectives like accuracy, productivity, and software utilization improvements.
  • Infrastructure resources supporting how we can reach your employees.
  • How you will measure, demonstrate, and report success.

At Allen Interactions, we design our Software Training solutions not just to teach but also to transform your employees into software experts.

Our multidisciplinary team harnesses the power of immersive technologies like Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and gamification to create engaging, interactive learning experiences. Combined with our proven methodologies, these innovative tools ensure your employees quickly master the software required to fulfill their responsibilities.

Is Software Training a Solution for Your Team?

Today, there is software that supports every conceivable task and process. Each software package promises different benefits, including better customer insights, improved process and employee efficiency, simplified compliance efforts, increased customer satisfaction, and more.

So, what benefits can your organization expect from investing in Software Training besides increased utilization, efficiency, and productivity?

  • Lower error rates and improved quality by automating tasks to eliminate human error.
  • Reduce the risk of non-compliance through automation.
  • Enhance employee retention and job satisfaction.
  • Increase employee competence, skills, and capabilities.

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How can Allen Interactions help my organization with Software Training?

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.

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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 Software Training?

30+

Years of Innovation

1300+

Clients Served

200K+

Custom Interactions

500+

Awards Received

Why Work with Allen Interactions?

Our clients often say that we understand training development better than any other company they’ve met. We take that as high praise, indeed. But, we know that choosing a partner you’ll entrust to develop your mission-critical training solution requires us to demonstrate, to you and your team’s satisfaction, that an Allen Interactions eLearning Program will meet or exceed your expectations.

We encourage you to ask us (and everyone on your radar) to demonstrate capabilities in these critical areas:

Why Work With Allen Interactions

Lead with listening

How do they ensure they understand your needs?

Proven track record

Ask for their recent successes. Ask for their recent successes.

Ability to customize a program

Do they rely on predefined templates, or can they customize technology to meeting your unique requirements?

Technology agnostic

Do they focus on a single technology or work with many?

Scalable solutions

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Provide robust analytics

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Exceptional user interfaces

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Integration with your existing

Can they integrate with systems like HR, for example?

Support and training

How do they get you up and running and keep you there?

Quality, current, accurate, and

How do they ensure accuracy, and how can they update content?

Cost-effective with proven ROI

Request a financial analysis to demonstrate value.

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