The modern marketer is: an experimenter, a lover of data, a content creator, a justifier of ROI.
LMS has gained popularity in recent years for deploying courses easily to organizations. But many still treat it as an expenditure rather than an investment. But what if we tell you otherwise? What if we tell you that your LMS could be your asset and help you generate ROI?
LMS helps you to save on your miscellaneous costs and also helps in increasing employee retention, which helps in increasing your ROI. Let us see how the software will help you gain better online training and save on costs.
LMS helps you save on:
- Trainer fees or charges because the classes or training can happen online.
- Any travel expenses are included to attend the training program.
- Training space to train the employees
- Learning resources, including printing costs.
LMS helps you gain on:
- Your employees will solely focus on work as there will be less time invested in training.
- Better services and products because of the quality training
- Faster course completion
- Lower operating and better re-work
You can calculate your ROI by: Gain + Profits/Cost of LMS = ROI.
It is quite important to calculate the ROI if you are running a business. Hence, let us look in detail at how you can calculate your ROI after deploying LMS.
These are ways in which you can keep track of your ROI:
1. Calculate the time saved:
Time saved is money saved! With online learning methods, you can save a lot of time that goes into designing and executing the seminars or sessions. With online training, learners can learn at their own pace and it will save them time for travelling as well. To know how this training method is helping you generate a better ROI, you can compare the payroll hours for traditional and online training, or you can calculate the seat time for every employee in traditional and online training.
2. Analyse previous L&D reports:
The expenses you reduce with LMS will be your increased ROI. Check your previous L&D report and compare it with the expenses after deploying LMS. You must be investing your capital in travel costs, arranging the training facilities before that can be cut down with the help of LMS. The software also helps you keep track of your training and also the rules and regulations for the same, which helps in maintaining compliance for the company as well.
3. Increase the employee retention rate:
Employees search for better professional opportunities in any organization. High turnover rate will require a hefty amount for training and onboarding new people. With the effective training program facilitated by LMS, you make sure your employees stick by and give you better ROI.
With the right training, companies can retain their best-performing talents, which can benefit the organizations in the long run. A high-performance work culture positively affects the people responsible for generating revenue and providing excellent service.
4. Consider compatibility and data integration costs:
Before choosing an LMS for your organization, it is important that you analyze its compatibility and data integration costs. Determine how long it will take for your L&D team to migrate existing resources in your new system. And, do you need any additional tools or staff training for the efficient deployment?
5. Determine the learning curve:
In some cases, your L&D team might require external training to see how the LMS works and its features. The same goes with the audience as well wherein you have to figure out if your audience needs tutorials or one-on-one discussions to understand the usability of the LMS platform.
You must determine the cost associated with the allocation of the software and its rightful distribution among your customers and employees.
6. Check the cost of running an LMS:
The type of LMS you use will determine which type of LMS you use. A cloud-based LMS will save you money as it doesn’t require any external source of data storage. Choose an LMS that is cost-effective in the long run. Some of the LMS that you choose may have higher ownership costs; consider and compare all the LMS costs you are able to find and then choose the best one.
Saving costs upon various resources through online learning will help you increase the ROI of your company.
Basic steps to increase ROI:
- Research and determine your expenses
- Deploy LMS to reduce training costs and improve retention
- Compare your expenses and cost-cutting.
- The difference will be your ROI.
Saving costs with the help of LMS and gaining better employee retention is an excellent way to
Increasing ROI with LMS is a mixture of saving costs and gaining skills to improve productivity.
