A rapidly growing food and beverage company must ensure its learning management system (LMS) can both support and facilitate its growth trajectory. Traditionally, the role of the LMS has often been limited to deploying training modules related to compliance and other operational goals. But many in the food and beverage industry are experiencing rapid change and are shifting their perspective to viewing the LMS as a more strategic tool to be used in improving business outcomes.
Modern learning management systems enable rapid growth by streamlining staff onboarding and providing timely, advanced training capabilities. An outdated mindset holds that the onboarding process is essentially about a new team member filling out paperwork, enrolling in benefits, and receiving facilities and system access. High-growth organizations in the food and beverage industry must go further than this to immerse new resources in the organization’s culture and ensure they have internalized the unique ways the organization carries out its mission and work. The LMS can enable this by making onboarding a high-quality, engaging experience—by offering a video message from the CEO instead of an emailed memo, for instance—and by ensuring the new employee is offered appropriate incremental learning experiences as he or she progresses through the first months at the organization. In fact, by 2025, we assert that LMS and LXP platforms with embedded skill and job ontologies that recommend optimal learning paths will guide one-half of organizations to elevate employee engagement, retention and productivity.
