Using your LMS to achieve social value

A learning management system can support a wide range of business goals — are you using your LMS to achieve social value?

For any business wanting to fulfil its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) obligations, win public sector contracts or live up to corporate goals, the concept of social value is an important one.

While it’s commonplace to use learning platforms to achieve compliance and training goals, surprisingly few organisations use their LMS to increase social value.

In this article, we’re going to look at some of the ways in which an LMS can boost your organisation’s social value.

Diversity and social mobility

An LMS can be used to tackle diversity and social mobility challenges faced by any organisation. There are almost limitless ways to accomplish this — it just depends on the outcomes you want to achieve. You could create automated learning pathways to deliver the following:

• STEM training to increase female representation in some roles
• Management training to groups who are underrepresented in leadership positions
• Formal qualifications to employees who did not attend university

Your LMS can improve almost any aspect of diversity and inclusivity that you want to address.

Community-focused tasks

Your LMS can be used to assign tasks that add social value to individual employees. For example, you could assign a task for each learner to complete a set amount of volunteering time with a local community group during their working hours.

An LMS provides the infrastructure for creating, managing and tracking company-wide initiatives that add social value.

Fund-raising initiatives 

An LMS can provide an organisational hub for the management and delivery of fundraising activities that add social value. For example, you could use the platform to oversee multiple events or activities to support a designated charity.

With your LMS, you can easily track engagement, attendance and a range of other useful factors.

Supporting existing social value goals

Whatever your existing measures of the social value you create, your LMS can be used to enhance that. You can create and deliver learning that helps your team to do the things that help your business achieve social value.

Similarly, you can add learning that brings new elements of social value to your organisation.

Gamified social value targets

You can increase the social value your organisation achieves by introducing some friendly competition. By using your LMS to gamify things you’re using to measure social value, you can increase engagement among your team.

For example, if you’re measuring how well you hit sustainability, corporate volunteering or health goals, you can use gamification to encourage team members to get involved.    

Achieve more social value with your LMS

Get in touch to discuss your social value goals and how an LMS can help you to achieve them.

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