Maddy quickly started introducing SMEs to the new platform. The collaborative features and rapid authoring functionality made it quicker and easier to create more engaging experiences for learners. Trainers can add knowledge checks and assessments, add videos and pictures, and create audio narration right within Cognota.
“It’s more effective than their PowerPoints, their Word docs, anything that they’re currently using. And especially when the pandemic hit, they couldn’t sit together in a side-by-side environment anymore and the resources that they were sharing were no longer effective. So I’ve been able to show them what it looks like from the user experience and how this could be totally improved by Cognota.”
One key area of the new hire experience that will be overhauled as a result of implementing Cognota is payroll onboarding. A single administrator is busy managing payroll for the entire company, along with a sister company with 27 branches across the country. It’s an overwhelming role that leaves little free time for developing new training, especially under the previous training creation process at Americo. Using Cognota to build payroll onboarding will create efficiencies for payroll, talent development, and new hires.
Through Cognota, Maddy and her stakeholders have moved away from painstakingly creating and updating Powerpoint presentations and Word documents to a new way of developing training. Plus, the approval process is much more efficient too as the legal team can easily be invited into Cognota to review and approve frequently required changes to onboarding and compliance training.