3 Things Your L&D Program Needs to Fight the Battle Against Quiet Quitting
Quiet quitting is spreading like wildfire across the workforce, but what exactly is it? Contrary to what the name implies, it doesn’t actually entail quitting your job, but rather quitting the idea of going above and beyond. You still perform all duties required of you, but no longer subscribe to the hustle culture mentality that says work is your life.
Quiet quitting can take many forms, such as:
- Saying “No” to tasks outside of your job description
- Not replying to emails or other forms of team communications outside of work hours
- Leaving work on time, rather than staying late
- Being less emotionally invested
This phenomenon happens for many reasons, but there are ways employers can help. Effective L&D and D&I programs can be useful in correcting course. Since some of the main symptoms of quiet quitting are lack of engagement, development, and a weak leadership pipeline, you’ll want to focus your efforts on increasing these things through your programs.
Top Three Things Your L&D Program Needs
- Gamification. Using game-based mechanics, aesthetics, and game thinking to engage people, motivate action, promote learning, and solve problems. Adding in some healthy competition through this method can help make it more appealing to employees.
The benefits: Boosts productivity and engagement, strengthens teamwork and bolsters social interaction, enhances corporate image, encourages creative innovation, gives next steps.
- Personalized content. Everyone learns differently and has different learning needs. Tailoring content can help ensure everyone is learning what they need when they need it in order to succeed.
The benefits: Increased development of emerging leaders, improved engagement and participant satisfaction, strengthened leadership pipeline, and higher knowledge-retention rates.
- Effectiveness measurement. Engaging your learners is step one, but it’s crucial you know if they’re retaining and applying what they’re learning. You’ll need the right assessments and tracking metrics to have a successful L&D program.
The benefits: An increase in employee skill levels, productivity, and engagement.
Investing in your employees is key to keeping them not only on staff, but actively engaged and invested in the organization itself. An engaged, invested, and developed employee is the antidote to one who will quietly quit.
If learning more about quiet quitting or how Vayability can help develop your emerging talent is something that interests you, get in touch with us today.
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Written by Rachel Strysik
