If you’re operating a small to medium size enterprise (SME), then you understand the vital role your
employees play not only in running your business, but growing it as well. Margins are tight, deadlines
are tough, and everyone is giving it their all to reach this quarter’s goals. In such a busy space, a strong
sense of community and cooperation isn’t only a benefit—it’s a necessity.

You care about your employees, both their health and mental well-being—and you also understand that
their growth is synonymous with company growth. Their success can make or break a quarter in a way
larger companies wouldn’t even have to think about. However, often at odds with this is the reality of
the modern job market.

Employee retention can be a looming concern, with people quick to move on to greener pastures once a
new opportunity presents itself. High turnover doesn’t just hurt productivity, it can also do a real
number to employee morale. At a small business where people are close both physically and mentally,
you want a team that works together, succeeds together, and grows together.

The question is: how can you both encourage employees to stay, while also maximizing their potential?

Cademi and the Holistic Learning Platform

The key to answering that question, we’ve found, is through learning. Everyone loves a healthy work
environment, one where they feel community and a sense of accomplishment—but something just as
vital is a sense of individual growth. Value through experience. Employees thrive when they feel a sense
of progress, a sense of fulfillment in their personal skills.

In that way, what prevents them from getting all that fulfillment at this job and has them searching for
another? The answer is complicated and subjective—but there is one through-line. Everyone who runs
an SME knows how non-stop the modern business world can be. There’s always something pressing and
it can be difficult to organize training sessions that are not only helpful, but properly individualized and
tailored to the modern learner’s needs. No one wants to throw away money without seeing an ROI.

That’s where Cademi steps in.

Through our Holistic Learning Platform, we can offer a massive catalogue of expertly crafted, and effectively implemented training that caters to the individual needs of employees. Compared to even a few decades ago, the modern learner and how they retain knowledge is surprisingly unique to all of human history. Gone are the hours spent tirelessly pouring over textbooks in some lonely corner of a library. Smart phones, videos, and infinite customization have come to dominate the modern learning market. However, not only using those new tools but adapting them specifically for the modern business world is what sets Cademi apart.

Microlearning

A modern worker is estimated to check their phones 9 times an hour.[1] They are also more likely to
turn to Google when seeking answers to on-the-job questions—an instinct that inevitably leads back to
the smartphone. This instinct to turn to one’s smartphone is an opportunity we’ve discovered for Microlearning—a strategy of breaking larger training sessions into smaller, manageable chunks.

Studies show that Microlearning may be up to 17% more effective at transferring knowledge than
traditional classroom training, and may even increase information retention by 20%. [2]Studies show that the modern employee has about 1% of their workweek to devote to training. Broken down, that’s only 24 minutes. But Cademi is made to maximize those minutes.