Learning Management System LMS - Manage Training Online
Finally! A learning management system that closely links training with your organization's bottom line success
Imagine a learning management system that would enable you to confidently answer some of the toughest questions related to talent management. Questions like these:
- Can we quickly and easily see a return for our investments in training?
- Can we quickly identify skill gaps that are needed to realize our corporate objectives - and know how well we are doing at closing those gaps?
- Can we measure the success of our learning programs in terms of improved corporate performance?
Best practices learning management
These and other questions underscore the importance of one thing: best practices in learning management must be performance management driven. That's exactly what Halogen eLearning Manager offers: a solution that's based on the latest research in learning management and fully integrated with an industry leading employee performance management system.
Traditional stand-alone learning management systems simply cannot offer the same advantages. These earlier systems were designed to automate the administrative burden of training departments - which are most often separate from HR departments and not linked to employee performance.
In a class by itself
By melding breakthrough thinking in employee performance management with proven best practices in learning management - and keeping it profoundly simple to implement and use, Halogen eLearning Manager delivers a revolutionary enterprise class learning management solution that addresses the needs of companies of all sizes. Here's what you can do better:
- Training and development specialists have access to performance and talent reviews to be able to more effectively target training programs to meet the goals of the organization;
- Identify and close individual skill gaps with targeted learning paths;
- Empower employees to manage their own performance by giving them one place to go to understand their skill gaps, understand past performance, update goals and development plans, and launch targeted learning activities;
- Measure the effectiveness of all training investments by examining performance and competency improvements over time;
- Easily measure and report on training compliance;
- And much more.
"After looking at the best practices of over 750 corporations, we have discovered that aligning training with the developmental goals of individuals and the organization is one of the top talent management processes that drives the highest levels of business impact…"
- Bersin & Associates
Key Benefits of Halogen eLearning Manager™
Provide employees with a consistent, easy-to-use application to manage their own performance and development.
Employees get a single place to go for goals, development plans, training, and to complete any type of assessment. They can understand their own performance gaps and are offered targeted learning activities to close those gaps, enabling them to be responsible for their own success in the organization. Companies that provide such performance and training tools know that they gain much higher performance, engagement, and loyalty from their employees.
Deliver strategic information to HR
HR managers get straight-forward access to the information that assists them in building a high-performance workforce. This includes consolidated information, such as performance ratings and gaps, skills and competencies, training compliance, and succession data.
Allow training and development professionals to link learning & development investments with critical skill gaps.
Training and development get the information they need to align their efforts with the goals of the organization. By knowing where critical skills gaps exist they can align training investments and programs to fit perfectly with corporate goals, development plans, and succession demands.
Simplify activities for managers.
Managers have one place to go for managing and tracking goals, employee evaluations and assessments, succession plans, compensation adjustments, coaching, and employee development. Integrated talent management systems give managers a tremendous productivity boost and enable them to follow a complete and consistent process for employee management.
A Complete Training Management Solution
Halogen eLearning Manager™ makes it easy for you to deliver best practices learning management because it comes as a seamless component of Halogen's Employee Performance and Talent Management Suite™. Issues historically related to stand-alone training systems disappear. The suite leverages a single database of employees, job profiles, competencies and training objects.
For instance: job profiles used to create performance reviews can also be leveraged to create learning paths; competencies that are assessed for succession and career development can be used to search the course catalog for learning opportunities; managers and employees have a single place to go for all performance and development processes, including access to e-learning… and much more!
Key Product Features
Training management
Catalog, schedule, manage and track all types of learning activities, including classroom, e-learning, seminars, on-the-job, certifications, etc. The type of functions you can schedule include registration, withdrawal, waiting list, cancellation, bulk enrollment, assignment of instructors and resources. You can also report on training hours, course progress, completions and scores.
Learning catalog-consolidates information on all training activities
The learning catalog provides a single place for training administrators to manage information about all learning activities. The catalog:
- Is easily accessible to employees and managers from their development planning area without having to log into another system.
- Can be searched based on keywords, job requirements, or competencies.
- Supports ILT, e-learning, blended learning, etc; learning curriculums by job or position, pre-requisites, instructors and prework, continuing education credits, and links to course materials.
Certifications - delivers insight into all expiring certifications, licenses, and learning
Any certification activity can be defined with a length of time it remains active or current, once completed by an individual.
- Automatic reminders notify employees and managers of expiring certifications.
- Reporting is available to all types of managers, including training specialists.
Individual development and learning plans - launch all activities related to performance and development from a single user interface
Employee development plans and goals need to be supported with targeted training activities. With integrated learning, performance and development planning, employees have a single place to go to manage and complete all of the activities related to their performance and development. Employees can:
- Access event schedules, register and even launch and complete e-learning directly from their development plan, resulting in only one system for employees to update and reference.
- Monitor their own performance improvement over time and have a clear understanding of the gaps they need to close, in order to be performing optimally in their current position.
- Easily find the learning activities related to the job or their competency gaps, and build their own learning plans that will help them meet their development goals.
- Self-enroll in applicable courses and manage their enrollment from their development plan area.
Employees, managers and training specialists alike, have access to development plan progress at any point. Managers can easily ensure training compliance as part of the performance review process.
Learner calendar - see at a glance scheduled training activities
A customized calendar is also available from the development plan area -that displays registered events, due dates and expiration dates. The calendar can switch to a view of upcoming scheduled events.
Manage and deploy SCORM-compliant e-learning
Upload and manage SCORM conformant courses and content. Supports purchased 3rd party content as well as in-house developed content. Learners launching AICC Level II, SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 conformant learning activities can bookmark their location in the course. Progress and completion is automatically updated in their development plan.
Shared libraries
Your competencies, job profiles and training activities are kept in one location and shared across all modules - performance, learning, 360/multi-rater, succession, development planning, and compensation. All of Halogen's Employee Performance and Talent Management suites come complete with built-in competency libraries that are easily modified or complimented with 3rd party libraries.
Reporting and analytics
Consolidated and detailed information relating to employee development plans and related training activities are available in one place. Competency gap analysis allows training managers to clearly understand performance gaps at the individual, team or business unit level, in order to build programs that target the need. Training effectiveness can later be measured with reporting that calculates the return on investment, on any given learning activity, in terms of improved competency performance.
Contact Us today to learn more about Halogen Software and how it can help you and your business. You can also read more about this product by downloading the eLearning Manager White Paper today!