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At Ziiva, we offer more than a comprehensive, tailor-fit Learning Management System. We are always seeking ways to enrich your company culture and improve the online learning experience that you offer to your students, employees, customers, or users.



Dan Wheeler


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Tracking employee skills

Posted by Dan Wheeler on Tue, Aug 31, 2021
Tracking employee skills and competencies with spreadsheets is a pain.  Who has the latest matrix versions?  Who's going to fix formulas that are deleted or broken?  Who is keeping them up to date?
 
 
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Tracking employee skills and proficiency levels is increasingly critical for workforce management and employee development.  Matrix reports that show available and required skills and proficiency levels is an easy, visual way to track who is trained and capable of doing various jobs.  It is also increasingly required for customer and quality standard audits.
 
Many organizations have built complex spreadsheets to try and track skills, but these are often cumbersome, easy to break and no one knows who has the most up to date version.  That's where Prosperity Skills Mark can help.
 
 Unlike spreadsheets you can:
  • Maintain one consistent up-to-date matrix
  • Quickly update with no formulas
  • Easy reporting for audits
  • Filter and group data to get the precise data you need
  • Set automatic updates to keep employee and team information up to date
  • Automate tracking reports, notifications and reminders
Prosperity Skills Mark gives you the data you need at your fingertips to make better decisions, identify gaps, and report on skills for employees, teams and entire companies.
 

Topics: learning management software, manufacturing, compliance, reporting, matrix reports





Top LMS Features for Selling Your Training

Posted by Dan Wheeler on Fri, May 07, 2021

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The eCommerce industry is growing fast! And while you don't have to have eCommerce to sell your training, you are likely missing out on revenue opportunities if you don't. And considering the current shift towards online everything, now is the time to either reconsider eCommerce as an option or, if you have it already, step up your game. At Ziiva, we work with all kinds of training providers and consultants to sell training directly to individuals and businesses.  

The Prosperity LMS learning platform gives you a catalog of training that your customers can purchase directly, whether it’s buying an online course or registering for a webinar or live session class.  

Here are the top 6 features our clients use to maximize their sales:

  1. eCommerce - Use a merchant account and payment gateway like Stripe or PayPal integrated with our shopping cart to automate sales. Automation means less work for you and more fluid upward scaling. Work hard and work smarter. 
  2. Training codes - Generate unique codes for your clients to distribute for specific, pre-purchased content. Easy for your clients. Easy for you.
  3. Discount codes - Generate specific item or overall discounts that can be applied at purchase to boost sales and help you track marketing campaigns. Marketing 101- everyone likes a good sale.
  4. Graphics and copy - Add photos, Instructor Bios and detailed descriptions for your content to grab your learners’ attention and keep them interested.
  5. Remarket - Email former students to let them know about new content or offer them repeat purchase discounts or referrals. They’ll follow through (again) if you follow up.
  6. Social media- share your catalog, specific classes, specials, and more on popular social media platforms. Let your learners advertise you by word of mouth by sharing their successes and learning experiences.

With features galore, figuring out how to find everything you’re looking for can be overwhelming. Choosing and LMS to help you do that shouldn’t be. Prosperity LMS makes it easy and our experienced team can help.  

Schedule a consultation call with us to learn how to get started.

Topics: learning management software, ecommerce, selling training





Simplifying ISO certification with Prosperity LMS

Posted by Dan Wheeler on Wed, Oct 10, 2018

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A Learning Management System (LMS) can greatly simplify the process of achieving and maintaining ISO (International Standards Organizations) certification. Prosperity LMS provides flexible and efficient solutions for manufacturers to track training, standardize processes and ensure that employees are adhering to the necessary standards and specifications, both for ISO certification and for Occupational Health and Safety Administration requirements.

If your company is exploring the benefits of ISO certification, we can work with you to craft a system that will help you get the job done at a price you can afford. 

 

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Whatever compliance requirements you face — and in today’s world, most companies face many industry and governmental regulations that require compliance tracking and reporting — we can help you meet them.  Prosperity LMS can provide the platform you need to schedule and deliver the necessary training to your employees, track and report their progress and ensure ongoing compliance with necessary quality standards.

Ziiva offers customized solutions for your business, tailored to meet your individual needs for ISO and OSHA compliance. We can help you automate tracking, reporting and training to take the headaches out of ISO certification and OSHA compliance.

We can develop a system that will help you determine the skills required for every position in your operation and then deliver a training and assessment program to make sure employees keep and maintain the skill sets they need, while documenting everything so that you have the records you need to prove compliance or easily deal with audits.

Prosperity LMS can help you train new employees and make sure your long-time employees and supervisors have the knowledge and training they require to do their jobs as efficiently and safely as possible.  Our team will help automate your compliance training to make it as simple as possible. Reminders, scheduling, assessment, tracking and reporting can all be automated so that you can focus on your manufacturing process, not paperwork.

Our system can produce rigorous exams to assess how well your employees have absorbed the training and other necessary information and compile the reports of these assessments you need to track compliance.

ISO certification can help your company improve its processes and training, ensuring safe, efficient and quality production. If you’ve hesitated to seek such certification in the past because of the logistics involved or if you’ve achieved certification but struggled with compliance and record-keeping, Prosperity LMS may be your answer. We offer flexible billing models and have a highly experienced team that will get you up and running as quickly as possible and within your budget. 

Contact us to find out.

Topics: lms, learning management systems, learning management software, manufacturing, compliance





An LMS helps close the manufacturing skills gap

Posted by Dan Wheeler on Fri, Sep 28, 2018

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Finding qualified candidates is getting more difficult, and the outlook is that it will continue to be a significant problem for manufacturers.  The cost to a business is significant as positions remain unfilled and recruiting time and expense continues to increase.  A learning management system (LMS) can help human resource managers retain and develop the skilled workforce needed to succeed.

Consider these statistics from Deloitte Consulting LLP and the Manufacturing Institute in their report The Skills Gap in U.S. Manufacturing 2015 – 2025.  

  • It takes 90+ days to hire a new skilled worker
  • Six out of every ten open skilled production positions are currently unfilled
  • By 2025 as many as 2+ million positions won’t be filled as the skilled worker shortage worsens as baby boomers retire
  • 82% of manufacturing executives say the shortage will negatively impact the ability to meet customer demands, innovate and expand
  • 94% of executives said the most effective response is internal employee training and development

 

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A learning management system (LMS) is a great solution to help overwhelmed human resources staff train and develop employees. 

In addition to providing a training platform to build employee skills, an LMS can automate the administration, tracking and reporting of training and compliance certification.  A few key reasons an LMS can help include:

  • A standardized onboarding program ensures new hires are oriented, trained and engaged. According to a 2018 study by Jobvite, 30% of workers quit a job in the first ninety days.  Compare that to less than 10% if the company has a well-structured onboarding program.  An LMS can help ensure new employees have the information and skills to be successful.
  • Building a strong learning culture increases productivity and worker retention. Businesses that build this type of culture have 30-50% higher engagement and retention rates than those that don’t.  (David Mallon, Deloitte)
  • High-performing managers create high-performing teams. Manufacturers often put too little emphasis on training supervisors, despite the fact that the quality of the boss is a key factor in both worker performance and retention.  An LMS can help you identify and train new supervisors to increase productivity and reduce liability.
  • Provide the information and training workers need, when and how they need it. According to a Brandon Hall study, e-learning takes 40% to 60% less worker time when compared to a traditional classroom setting, and knowledge retention rates are higher.  An LMS makes you and your workers more efficient. 

Your best strategy is to engage and develop your current workforce.

The manufacturing skills gap is only going to increase, as will the competition for skilled workers.  Your best strategy is to engage and develop your current workforce, new hires and supervisors with a comprehensive learning and development program managed and tracked by robust learning management software.

And as Propel notes in their article on How to Solve the Manufacturing Skills Gap, never overlook your current workforce as an efficient and cost effective way to build needed skill sets.

The Prosperity LMS is built to support the needs of manufacturers, and our US-based team has the industry experience to make your training a success.   Use our calendar to schedule a brief consultation  or ask us a question.

And if you already have an LMS but still struggle with tracking employee competencies and skills, check out Skills Mark.  Prosperity Skills Mark is the simple and straightforward solution for tracking and reporting on the job training and employee competencies and skills.

Topics: elearning, training, learning management system, training development, manufacturing