Storytelling: A Great Fit For Training In The New Learning Paradigm

An engaging employee is a key to an effective eLearning program. With most employees working remotely, facing personal and professional challenges, keeping them engaged in training is a challenge.

However, storytelling in an eLearning program is not too often the best fit for a training course in the new environment of learning. It helps the learners to relate with content if the course content is workplace-based.

Given that a crucial part of the team works remotely today, a well-plotted storyline always helps to engage the learners with several virtual roles and characters within the company. Importantly, given the ongoing pandemic, the new reality of work from home, trainers can strategically create storytelling in learning.

Many employees are likely to train and learn the employee for real-life and hypothetical cases when returning to the office. With iSpring Suite, access to various features to design and present course content via games, quizzes, video lectures, and several interactive learning materials.

Strategies to enhance the impact of storytelling in eLearning

Micro-learning:

Today’s organization is exemplified by employees with multiple skills, good at multitasking, and working on the move. In a time-crunch situation, a lot needs to be done. Microlearning providing short spurts of content is the best way of storytelling aid.

Instead of using various slides or overwhelming the employees with content, use snippets of content to summarize the crux of training. Save time and keep the employees tagged.

Gamification

Using games for storytelling plays a central theme in the making learning a fun activity for remote learners. Simultaneously, it also touches the employee’s emotions and sense of curiosity to engage in a game-centric story.

As a part of your games, use milestone unlocks to motivate learners to complete the training course and move to the next level. This makes eLearning engaging and exciting for remote participants.

Scene-based learning

Using the storyline for the eLearning program helps to create stories revolving around real-life office scenarios. This is helpful in several ways. First of all, it helps remote learners to relate to the key characters and the plot.

Relating leads to retention. Most importantly, by introducing different versions of the same plot, trainers help employees upskill to handle a resolution variant.

Use different office scenarios to train learners on how to apply critical thinking in any situation.

Branching Simulations

When it falls to using storytelling in an eLearning experience, branching simulation challenges, and help learners to understand the repercussions of their choices, it is a great tool to motivate employees to stimulate critical thinking and decision-making.

It is the best example of qualitative assessment. Branching simulations help learners to practice their skills and use available training resources to avoid adverse outcomes.

A portion of the storyline dictates how a technical support representative uses product information to diagnose and fix the problem. Branching simulation might work well in training learners for developing skills to troubleshoot

The employee should decide on whether the problem is software-related or hardware.

Conclusion:

With most employment working from home and learning remotely, embrace a less-used storyboard method in eLearning. It helps in two different approaches; firstly, the learners get engaged on an emotional level and connect to the learning content through those stories.

And secondly, in eLearning, using a storyline helps in predicting behavioral changes among learners. It allows learners to relate and connect with desired behavior projected by characters in the story.

We hope this blog provides enough insight on how storytelling is an excellent fit for training in the new learning paradigm to engage learners and ensure employee longevity in the organization.