Marie Creasey
Digital Customer Experience Manager
成人抖阴 Online
Do you struggle to engage the unmotivated staff in your organisation with the importance of employee development? If so, then online micro-credentials could be the solution.
Employee development, their way
When it comes to professional development, some of your employees may be keener than others. A love of learning, a desire for promotion, or an ambition to make a sideways move into a new area of specialism may all be good reasons to undertake additional learning in a new subject or at a higher level.
But what about those who aren’t so keen, who don’t put themselves forwards and seem content to stay as they are and where they are right now? Is it a case of won’t learn – or can’t learn?
Not everyone has the time, money or mental capacity to commit to undertaking a two-year, part-time qualification on top of their day job. In fact, there may be very few people in your organisation that can.
For many people, short, sharp, lower-cost study and training that can be completed at a pace, location and time that suits them is the only way for them to keep up with their colleagues and peers. Anything else is just a no-go.
Enter the online micro-credential…
What are micro-credentials in employee development?
Combining the terms ‘micro’ (meaning ‘small’) and ‘credential’ (meaning ‘qualification’), a micro-credential is a mini qualification that aims to help someone learn new skills, progress in their career, or change career entirely.
Often more targeted to a particular topic, they are cheaper than broader or deeper undergraduate or postgraduate degrees and completed in a shorter time frame.
Designed to be fast, accessible and specialised, they often take the form of on-demand online courses that may be completed flexibly around someone’s career, family life or other commitments. With some providers, the micro-credentials can be combined over time to make a more comprehensive qualification in a particular subject area.
Micro-credentials in employee development: The benefits
Although micro-credentials are growing in popularity worldwide, they are relatively new innovations in business education and their strategic use by organisations in employee development initiatives so far remain