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Staff augmentation for learning development

Is it always good news when you get more projects or orders on your plate? Well, it depends. You might not have the capacity or expertise in house to meet your client’s demand for learning development. But that’s not a problem! Staff augmentation is just what you need to expand your learning development workforce, and we can provide it.

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Why you need staff augmentation

Sometimes, anticipating your future needs for learning development resources is impossible. It all depends on the nature of your business and how you manage costs. However, don’t feel alone or trapped in a business that relies on contingent workers! Many organizations worldwide are relying on flexible workforces, and so can you.

Top executives being borrowed to fill roles in other companies? That’s staff augmentation. The reason for the collaboration between the executives and the destination company is temporary, such as vacation or illness.

Different industries require external personnel for various reasons:

Capacity—to increase human resources due to a spike in customer demand, such as a seasonal peak
Expansion—to fulfill a higher human resource capacity while expanding to a new location or creating a new business line, and before hiring permanent employees
Expertise—to access and benefit from specialized skills such as scriptwriting or graphic design
Strategy—to raise a competitive advantage by reducing the time to market
Precaution—to have a variable workforce that works as a buffer to prevent layoffs during unexpected low-demand periods
Trial—to test the competence of potential full-time employees

Do you deliver training solutions to your clients? Or develop your own training solutions for internal use? If you do and resonate with the reasons why staff augmentation might solve your problem, we can help you.

A hand-picked learning development workforce for you

We have the knowledge and experience to advise you on the best options to augment your learning development personnel. Actually, we go further than that and lend you members of our brilliant staff based on your goals and needs.

We know the skill sets of our learning development staff and what they’re able to deliver. So, after carefully selecting them, rest assured they’ll leverage your development of training solutions. They’ll get to know your context in detail, and our learning developers will swiftly set you on a path to achieving your learning development vision.

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Instructional designers build learning solutions based on their knowledge of learning theory. They take raw content, dive into it, split it into small pieces, and identify key takeaways that your learners should absorb and retain.

We call these professionals “learning experience designers (LXDs)” because, to us, learning is more than training materials—it’s an experience. Our LXDs work with content and bring edtech, user experience, and design thinking to the table. They can quickly prototype learning solutions to collect early feedback and make changes, which leads to a great product.
Above all, learning development projects require great communication flow, and our project managers know that. They set up and maintain communication channels based on your context. Plus, they make sure that information is available on time.

They commit to building a fruitful and solid relationship with you and your staff members. Their ultimate goal is to live up to your expectations. They create the right foundation for your learning development projects by:
- Ensuring an accurate and shared interpretation of your vision and needs across all learning development team members
- Keeping your learning development project on time and budget and running smoothly from start to finish
- Promoting team collaboration to build the best training experience
Our animators and illustrators take creativity to a whole other level. They’re passionate about learning development, and their mission is to exceed your expectations!

They communicate learning content through visuals, and they do it with astonishing versatility. It’s not uncommon that their visuals replace a subject matter expert who would deliver instructor-led training.

Animations and illustrations boost the absorption, retention, and recall of new information, which results in effective learning. These visuals grab the learner’s attention and help them focus on the information that matters, quickly and with little effort.

Animated training videos with characters in hypothetical situations promote engagement. Through those scenarios, your employees, partners, or customers experience how something they’re learning would look or feel like.

And to make the learning experience feel natural, our animators consider the way the human mind works. Believe us: Our knowledge of the human mind is vast, and we use it extensively.

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FAQs

- Short-term projects
- Projects of low-to-medium complexity or context, which don’t require a long ramp-up time (unless the supplied talent is highly skilled)
- Projects that require skilled resources temporarily (as opposed to an ongoing basis)
- Agility. An extra workforce increases the agility of your learning development process. Whether you deliver training solutions to your clients or you need learning products for internal use, temporarily relying on outside personnel speeds up your delivery times.
- Flexibility. With augmented staff, you’re able to answer to the changing needs of your company in a more expedited way.
The focus of managed services is on handing over a deliverable to the organization that received the human resources. Also, managed services are paid upon the deliverable’s handover, and the deliverable must meet a set of quality parameters.

On the other hand, staff augmentation has a time and material payment scheme. And whereas the focus of managed services is on the deliverable, the focus of staff augmentation is on labor. The quality of that labor is evaluated against a skill description.

Case studies

Check out how we’ve taken inspired ideas and transformed them into workable realities for our clients.

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Changing Hearts & Minds With Food Law

The legal department of a multinational confectionary and food products manufacturer was ready and willing to offer guidance through the production process, but found that it wasn’t being effectively utilized by employees. While they had plenty of helpful content, ELM knew that instilling confidence in the department was priority #1. Our designers helped change the way employees saw legal while highlighting what the department had to offer.

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