How we ran our ‘Elephants don’t forget’ pilot! Martyn Adams Blended Learning Development Manager
Jul 15, 2015
How we ran our ‘Elephants don’t forget’ pilot!
Martyn Adams Blended Learning Development Manager
Background information
• Clever Nelly is the knowledge retention tool from Elephants don’t forget.
• Nelly ensures that what you train your people they genuinely learn, helps with retention of knowledge & helps you target your future training more precisely.
• Nelly massively increases ROI on all your training activities and drives better business performance .
• Elephants don’t forget actively supports genuine charitable organisations CLC members have a highly preferential offer
• Pilot scheme usually £1000 for 50 employees
• £250 for CLC members
Questions Results
Why we Embarked on the Pilot
• Richmond Fellowship is currently investing in alternative approaches to traditional learning methods with the following aims:-
• To increase knowledge of all employees,
• To improve knowledge retention of all employees,
• To reduce the current high cost of delivering learning to a large employee group whilst increasing overall standards.
Nelly seemed to fit the bill!
How We Did it
• ‘Nelly’ was given access to our induction/ mandatory learning materials (inc. eLearning) so that they could produce the question bank.
• The questions were then sent to me to check – some changes were made.
• A master copy of guidance and eMails for managers & participants were provided by ‘Nelly’ for us to edit to suit our target audience.
• Support provided was timely and excellent.
How We Did it After identifying the pilot group we took the following steps;
• Meetings with the Locality Managers and Team Leaders to explain the system - Face to face or by telephone.
• Emails introducing Nelly, which included a link to a promotional video on You Tube were sent out to managers
• The information about the pilot was cascaded down through team meetings & locality meetings.
• All participants were able to contact either ‘Nelly’ or myself at anytime to discuss preliminary concerns.
Countdown to Pilot Build up excitement & anticipation
• Emails - 1st round - two weeks prior to commencement with guidance for participants….
• 2nd round - 1 week prior to commencement…
• 3rd round - 2 days before …
Some Observations …….
• Feedback so far is that people enjoy using Nelly and it has become an integral part of their work day.
• One complaint sent to Nelly very early on in the pilot. No other complaints. Speaks volumes!!
• Some issues with timings of questions for people with dyslexia were resolved immediately – time allowed increased
Some more observations …
• Having done a preliminary analysis the overall feeling is that Nelly will provide a big return on investment.
• Learning interventions can be individually designed and targeted.
• Induction & compliance learning (or any other learning) can commence from day one ……
• Unnecessary, one size fits all cost heavy training can be avoided.
Cold Hard Facts!
Cold Hard Facts!
Nelly’s Observations • This has worked so well because RF took my advice to heart and was
very thorough in positively engaging the end users
• Engagement & utilisation was spot on the global average of 83%
• Some users with lower scores experiencing “selective participation”
• Knowledge levels 57% and starting to dip which is just above the average at 90 days.
• Over the next few months users that remain 80% + engaged will significantly improve their knowledge scores.
• RF will know who needs remedial training interventions and in what subject matter and can ensure that they spend training budget where there is a proven need.