siliconindia | | May 201819the learning environment. Staff can be trained and re-trained faster, as many times as necessary, until they are proficient ­ which saves enormous amounts of money and reduces errors as well.When employees have access to more training and are receiving training from their employer, trust, loyalty and a bond become established in ways that emotionally connect them to the employer. As trust increases, talent grows, and turnover slows. It is worth saying that again differently. When the company invests time in training, teaching and tutoring staff, they will stay and reward the business tenfold.There are many LMSs on the market and many different ways to get started using them. The easiest way (though the most expensive) is to use outsourced providers like Lynda.com, from LinkedIn, or others such Udemy and Udacity. For general and primary subjects, there is Kahn Academy, and if your training needs require college and even higher level courses, the best tool to use is Coursera. However, the more common approach for a company is to leverage a free or low-cost solution and build your own using templates with either internal or external resources. As an example, there are LMS tailored to specific vertical markets like grade schools, colleges, or even manufacturing. Some of these companies have been around for a decade or more, and some are relatively new. Examples of general LMS companies include: Absorb, Blackboard, Grovo, Knewton, Moodle, NIIT, Paradiso, Schoology, Tata Interactive, Thors, Upside Learning, and ZeusLearning.Of these companies, the most extensive installed user base is Moodle with about 89 million users. It also has over 10 million created courses and over 1000 plug-ins and is available in over 100 languages in 232 countries. The software is open-source and used all over the world by large and small organizations alike. Moodle is like a vast set of Lego blocks containing an entire ecosystem of modules with toolsets that can be used to build almost any type of simple or complex learning environment. You can also contract with 60 worldwide partners to help you create your own unique LMS that will support your in-house or specialized needs.In the past, we all expected employees to learn on their own when a new skillset or technology became necessary to the business, or we would hire new employees with that knowledge. In today's ultra-competitive war for talent, decreasing time to market, and constant technology innovation, those strategies no longer suffice.Today, we need to increase our staff's abilities and knowledge capital across the whole organization to sur-vive and thrive. Remember, don't let talented employees go, instead use the LMS to mold them into something even better.So if an LMS is not among your various project priorities, it is time to add it to the list! Michael MeyerWhen employees have access to more training and are receiving training from their employer, trust, loyalty and a bond become established in ways that emotionally connect them to the employer
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