{"id":61813,"date":"2022-09-09T18:54:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T18:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explore.local\/2022\/09\/09\/cooked-to-perfection-learning-elevates-the-employee-engagement-recipe\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T20:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T20:02:15","slug":"cooked-to-perfection-learning-elevates-the-employee-engagement-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/degreed.com\/experience\/de\/blog\/cooked-to-perfection-learning-elevates-the-employee-engagement-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooked to Perfection: Learning Elevates the Employee Engagement Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My go-to pandemic binge has been the reality cooking show Top Chef<\/em>. It\u2019s comforting, great with a snack or glass of wine and an excellent example of how talent is strengthened through learning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like a delicious jus, hollandaise or demi-glace, learning can be your \u201csecret sauce\u201d to employee engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employee engagement has played a big role in recruiting and retention throughout the pandemic. To increase engagement, companies have enhanced benefits and perks, embraced flexible work schedules, expanded paid time off, focused on mental health programs and held events that cultivate workplace relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And they\u2019ve embraced learning. When you create a positive learning culture and invest in your people\u2019s ongoing development, they feel greater ownership of their careers and increased alignment with your company. In other words, when you put effort into developing your employees, they invest back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLearning creates opportunities to obtain and enhance skill sets, knowledge and capabilities,\u201d said Ben Cardenas, Sr. Manager of Enterprise Learning & Talent at Harbor Freight Tools. I contacted several learning leaders to get their views on engagement and the role learning can play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDeveloping these components in a learning environment enables the employee (learner) to practice in a safe space what they have acquired and or enhanced,\u201d Cardnesa added. \u201cWhen the employee applies the learning experience back into the workplace, it enables them to contribute to work that is meaningful to them, which in turn helps the employee feel included in the organization and the process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how can you use learning to keep your people engaged?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Create a meaningful onboarding plan.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Consider what information you would want to know during your first day, week, month and 90 days. Then think through the best ways to build learning experiences that deliver that key information. What stakeholders would you want to include to share that information in a new-hire welcome series? What items would be on your critical learning agenda? What information should be self-paced and online versus instructor-led, whether it\u2019s presented in person or virtually?<\/p>\n\n\n\n