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Along with an increase in revenue and customer satisfaction, “employee engagement” is probably one of the top reasons why companies implement an LMS. The workforce’s attention is the topic of much discussion in L&D circles: How to gain it, how to keep it, how to translate it into results.
Digital training tools are a great place to start. In this blog, we’ll round up five ways in which our Learning Management System (LMS) can help you achieve engagement. In our (admittedly biased) opinion, there is a direct and visible link between engaged employees and business success – and Thrive is teeming with features that will keep your people’s attention, and hold it.
Read on for five ways to drive engagement!
It’s no secret that communication is one of the key parts of effective, engaging learning experiences (and team development.) We’re so sure of this that we’ve written multiple resources about it – including a blog, a long-form PDF, and a LinkedIn Insights newsletter – so if you want some further reading on the topic, you know where to look!
So, how does Thrive enable this essential element of learning?
Thrive’s communication features make it easier than ever for your people to stay connected. Here’s a quick round-up of just a few of those features:
Newly upgraded in-line with our recent Winter Release, Thrive’s Broadcast feature has been taken to an entirely new level. This tool adds instant excitement to comms by live-streaming announcements or updates to your entire organisations – or even a specific audience.
Along with the existing functionality of reactions, comments and polls, we’ve now improved the Broadcast mobile experience, incorporated auto-generated transcripts, and added the ability to have multiple speakers presenting at one time.
We’ve specifically designed our platform’s interface to remind your people of the social media platforms they use regularly. (More on that later.) Parts of this social-media-like functionality include:
Notifications
Notifications let your learners know about new pieces of content, policies, reminders, campaigns and social interactions with handy in–platform alerts.
Reactions
Thrive creates an immersive and collaborative experience with Likes, Comments and Shares. This has the added benefit of giving your learning the traction it deserves.
User Generated Content (UGC)
Give your learners a voice. Just like on social media, your people can share their thoughts, knowledge or updates directly to the platform (and their colleagues.)
For an example of social learning in action, look no further than Thrive customer DECIEM. Prior to launching Thrive, a staff survey highlighted that 78% of employees felt like they didn’t know what was going on in the wider business, and 42% felt they didn't have a voice. 98% of employees wanted to learn more, but only 48% felt they knew how to develop their skills.
Using Thrive's communication features (like broadcasts, UGC and social-media-like communication initiatives) to empower their learners to become teachers, DECIEM saw a sharp increase in their employees' engagement levels. With 95% active users, and each employee spending an average of 83 minutes per week on optional learning, this approach has been so successful that their platform is now made up of 53% user generated content, and only 23% content from the L&D team.
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is a pivotal part of long-term learning strategies, but it’s not just good for the organisation – it’s also great for the individual.
Studies show that employees who have personal development opportunities demonstrate significantly higher engagement levels than those who do not. From The Drivers of Employee Engagement by D Robinson, S Perryman, and S Hayday:
“Employees who have a personal development plan, and who have received a formal performance appraisal within the past year, have significantly higher engagement levels than those who have not.”
Thrive is specifically designed to make Continuous Professional Development an easy and effortless part of day-to-day learning. Functionality like Skills and Goals, which helps employees set goals and designs learning pathways to help them get there, is a straightforward way for your people to invest in their professional development.
Nobody exemplifies the use of these tools for engagement better than Thrive customer Inspired Entertainment. Through implementing Thrive, they left "top-down" learning behind, and placed a strong focus on personal goals and upskilling. Their “Skill of the Month” club, launched within Thrive in order to regularly introduce the entire business to new skills they may need to develop, has resulted in 120,000 content views since launch and 80% active monthly users.
Another key ingredient for engaging learning: Gamification. This doesn’t just increase engagement and team development; it reportedly even improves the outcomes of learning, like retention and recall.
The satisfaction you feel from completing all the rings on your Apple Fitness app, maintaining your streak on Duolingo, or logging your running progress in Strava is not an accident; it’s by design. The competitive edge, the feeling of progress and reward, is what keeps you coming back. That, and the ever-divisive neurotransmitter Dopamine.
Dopamine has been getting some mixed reviews over the past few years for its contribution to social media and smartphone addiction, but it’s important to remember that its powers can be used for good.
So, how does Thrive make use of Dopamine’s magical, mystical powers? Our all-in-one LMS is based on established learning theory (although we’re continuously evolving), and so gamification has been woven throughout the design of the platform. Here are just a few of our gamified features:
Research by Ding-Chau Wang & Yong-Ming Huang compared the effectiveness of both “competition” and “collaboration” in learning, and saw competition come out on top:
“Perceived competition is a factor more significant than perceived collaboration behind learning performance, in which perceived competition directly affects perceived collaboration.”
Within Thrive, learners can see exactly where they fall on the leaderboard and compare their training progress with colleagues, working to rise tantalisingly higher up the board.
When learners can outwardly display their progress, skills and knowledge within their user profile, they’re more motivated to chase after those achievements – and gain the recognition they deserve.
Thrive enables badges within your employees’ user profiles, so they can proudly display their achievements. Through a suite of pre-defined achievements related to specific user behaviours, your people are encouraged to interact with their learning.
The final pot of gold at the end of the gamification rainbow, certificates are a great way for learners to demonstrate what they know and really drive home that sense of reward.
Providing certificates might seem like a relatively small deal to some, but it’s actually inextricably linked to a sense of motivation for learners. This study found that when certification is removed from elearning, completion rates are almost halved. Halved. That’s a very large percentage of your workforce that are ending up non-compliant or never even looking at the course in the first place.
With Thrive’s certification feature, everyone can keep on top of their assigned learning – from managers through to end users. Admins have complete oversight over training, and learners can stay up-to-date by viewing an easy-to-read table of all their assignments.
Once it’s completed, that’s when the certificate comes in. Learners can export their certification statement as a PDF, which will show what they’re compliant in and the date they completed it. Nicely tying up the entire learning experience, certificates provide a final sense of completion for learners.
Thrive customer FatFace has found whole host of new ways to make learning fun. Implementing Thrive throughout their workforce, they've taken these gamified features and used them to host content in whichever format makes it the most engaging. From video to quizzes, memes to quotes, they have been able to get creative with the way they deliver their training. This enthusiasm has transferred through to the learners, with increased engagement across the board: FatFace has a 98% platform adoption rate, with 20,000 content views and 81% employee engagement.
Meanwhile, Thrive customer Krispy Kreme has used the certificate element of Thrive's gamification features to achieve unmatched compliance and a 99% user adoption rate within the first 6 months of using Thrive.
If you’ve been following Thrive’s product developments recently, you’ll know that we’ve been steadily rolling out new AI-powered learning features, culminating in our biggest feature release yet.
In our Winter Release, you’ll find a full suite of game-changing AI features designed to keep your learners engaged. Here’s just a small sampling:
Thrive AI talks to your tech stack, and is fully integrated with the systems you know and love. Your learners can use AI-powered learning tools like WhatsApp to chat their way to the right answers in a place they’re already working – making it so much easier for them to engage in their own development.
Research from Gartner shows that while employers would try to boost engagement by adding more initiatives, what employees actually wanted were “fixes to difficult processes.” AI search makes finding the information your people need straightforward, surfacing the most relevant answers so that they can spend less time searching.
Thrive’s AI summaries help your people engage with their learning without having to comb through pages upon pages, by offering concise overviews of long-form content instantly. AI-powered learning has never been so easy.
For an example of this AI technology in action, tune into Thrive's webinar on Thursday, Feb 13, 2025, during which Josh (Thrive's Chief Growth & Innovation Officer) will be joined by Scott Dudley-Jones (L&D Specialist at Interpath Advisory.) Together, they'll discuss how Scott and his team are using Thrive’s AI features to save time and boost efficiency, tailor learning for their people, and create engaging content in a matter of seconds.
Besides our incredible customer support team, one of the most commonly-cited benefits of Thrive is its smooth, easy-to-use interface. To us, it’s simple: Will your learners want to continually return to a platform that looks like a clunky, slow and confusing website made in 2003? No. They’ll want to return to something that looks slick, smooth and easy to navigate – like Thrive.
With custom homepages, a configurable theme, and personalised onboarding process, you can make the platform your own.
Thrive customer Huel used this enhanced user experience to its fullest, cutting down onboarding time for their new starters and achieving their 90% engagement KPI within the first 2 months of launch. Vicki Bacon, People Manager at Huel, commented: "We're really pleased that it’s saved time for our "Hueligans." Cutting down on time spent answering the same questions over and over has all been achieved through creating our own content to counter these questions, and form part of the onboarding process.”
Does this sound like what your team needs in 2025? Perhaps you'll be our next case study. Boosting workforce engagement isn’t an exact science, but we think we’ve found a formula that works. Schedule a demo with a member of the Thrive team, and find out how our LMS can help you achieve real results.
Explore what impact Thrive could make for your team and your learners today.
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Along with an increase in revenue and customer satisfaction, “employee engagement” is probably one of the top reasons why companies implement an LMS. The workforce’s attention is the topic of much discussion in L&D circles: How to gain it, how to keep it, how to translate it into results.
Digital training tools are a great place to start. In this blog, we’ll round up five ways in which our Learning Management System (LMS) can help you achieve engagement. In our (admittedly biased) opinion, there is a direct and visible link between engaged employees and business success – and Thrive is teeming with features that will keep your people’s attention, and hold it.
Read on for five ways to drive engagement!
It’s no secret that communication is one of the key parts of effective, engaging learning experiences (and team development.) We’re so sure of this that we’ve written multiple resources about it – including a blog, a long-form PDF, and a LinkedIn Insights newsletter – so if you want some further reading on the topic, you know where to look!
So, how does Thrive enable this essential element of learning?
Thrive’s communication features make it easier than ever for your people to stay connected. Here’s a quick round-up of just a few of those features:
Newly upgraded in-line with our recent Winter Release, Thrive’s Broadcast feature has been taken to an entirely new level. This tool adds instant excitement to comms by live-streaming announcements or updates to your entire organisations – or even a specific audience.
Along with the existing functionality of reactions, comments and polls, we’ve now improved the Broadcast mobile experience, incorporated auto-generated transcripts, and added the ability to have multiple speakers presenting at one time.
We’ve specifically designed our platform’s interface to remind your people of the social media platforms they use regularly. (More on that later.) Parts of this social-media-like functionality include:
Notifications
Notifications let your learners know about new pieces of content, policies, reminders, campaigns and social interactions with handy in–platform alerts.
Reactions
Thrive creates an immersive and collaborative experience with Likes, Comments and Shares. This has the added benefit of giving your learning the traction it deserves.
User Generated Content (UGC)
Give your learners a voice. Just like on social media, your people can share their thoughts, knowledge or updates directly to the platform (and their colleagues.)
For an example of social learning in action, look no further than Thrive customer DECIEM. Prior to launching Thrive, a staff survey highlighted that 78% of employees felt like they didn’t know what was going on in the wider business, and 42% felt they didn't have a voice. 98% of employees wanted to learn more, but only 48% felt they knew how to develop their skills.
Using Thrive's communication features (like broadcasts, UGC and social-media-like communication initiatives) to empower their learners to become teachers, DECIEM saw a sharp increase in their employees' engagement levels. With 95% active users, and each employee spending an average of 83 minutes per week on optional learning, this approach has been so successful that their platform is now made up of 53% user generated content, and only 23% content from the L&D team.
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is a pivotal part of long-term learning strategies, but it’s not just good for the organisation – it’s also great for the individual.
Studies show that employees who have personal development opportunities demonstrate significantly higher engagement levels than those who do not. From The Drivers of Employee Engagement by D Robinson, S Perryman, and S Hayday:
“Employees who have a personal development plan, and who have received a formal performance appraisal within the past year, have significantly higher engagement levels than those who have not.”
Thrive is specifically designed to make Continuous Professional Development an easy and effortless part of day-to-day learning. Functionality like Skills and Goals, which helps employees set goals and designs learning pathways to help them get there, is a straightforward way for your people to invest in their professional development.
Nobody exemplifies the use of these tools for engagement better than Thrive customer Inspired Entertainment. Through implementing Thrive, they left "top-down" learning behind, and placed a strong focus on personal goals and upskilling. Their “Skill of the Month” club, launched within Thrive in order to regularly introduce the entire business to new skills they may need to develop, has resulted in 120,000 content views since launch and 80% active monthly users.
Another key ingredient for engaging learning: Gamification. This doesn’t just increase engagement and team development; it reportedly even improves the outcomes of learning, like retention and recall.
The satisfaction you feel from completing all the rings on your Apple Fitness app, maintaining your streak on Duolingo, or logging your running progress in Strava is not an accident; it’s by design. The competitive edge, the feeling of progress and reward, is what keeps you coming back. That, and the ever-divisive neurotransmitter Dopamine.
Dopamine has been getting some mixed reviews over the past few years for its contribution to social media and smartphone addiction, but it’s important to remember that its powers can be used for good.
So, how does Thrive make use of Dopamine’s magical, mystical powers? Our all-in-one LMS is based on established learning theory (although we’re continuously evolving), and so gamification has been woven throughout the design of the platform. Here are just a few of our gamified features:
Research by Ding-Chau Wang & Yong-Ming Huang compared the effectiveness of both “competition” and “collaboration” in learning, and saw competition come out on top:
“Perceived competition is a factor more significant than perceived collaboration behind learning performance, in which perceived competition directly affects perceived collaboration.”
Within Thrive, learners can see exactly where they fall on the leaderboard and compare their training progress with colleagues, working to rise tantalisingly higher up the board.
When learners can outwardly display their progress, skills and knowledge within their user profile, they’re more motivated to chase after those achievements – and gain the recognition they deserve.
Thrive enables badges within your employees’ user profiles, so they can proudly display their achievements. Through a suite of pre-defined achievements related to specific user behaviours, your people are encouraged to interact with their learning.
The final pot of gold at the end of the gamification rainbow, certificates are a great way for learners to demonstrate what they know and really drive home that sense of reward.
Providing certificates might seem like a relatively small deal to some, but it’s actually inextricably linked to a sense of motivation for learners. This study found that when certification is removed from elearning, completion rates are almost halved. Halved. That’s a very large percentage of your workforce that are ending up non-compliant or never even looking at the course in the first place.
With Thrive’s certification feature, everyone can keep on top of their assigned learning – from managers through to end users. Admins have complete oversight over training, and learners can stay up-to-date by viewing an easy-to-read table of all their assignments.
Once it’s completed, that’s when the certificate comes in. Learners can export their certification statement as a PDF, which will show what they’re compliant in and the date they completed it. Nicely tying up the entire learning experience, certificates provide a final sense of completion for learners.
Thrive customer FatFace has found whole host of new ways to make learning fun. Implementing Thrive throughout their workforce, they've taken these gamified features and used them to host content in whichever format makes it the most engaging. From video to quizzes, memes to quotes, they have been able to get creative with the way they deliver their training. This enthusiasm has transferred through to the learners, with increased engagement across the board: FatFace has a 98% platform adoption rate, with 20,000 content views and 81% employee engagement.
Meanwhile, Thrive customer Krispy Kreme has used the certificate element of Thrive's gamification features to achieve unmatched compliance and a 99% user adoption rate within the first 6 months of using Thrive.
If you’ve been following Thrive’s product developments recently, you’ll know that we’ve been steadily rolling out new AI-powered learning features, culminating in our biggest feature release yet.
In our Winter Release, you’ll find a full suite of game-changing AI features designed to keep your learners engaged. Here’s just a small sampling:
Thrive AI talks to your tech stack, and is fully integrated with the systems you know and love. Your learners can use AI-powered learning tools like WhatsApp to chat their way to the right answers in a place they’re already working – making it so much easier for them to engage in their own development.
Research from Gartner shows that while employers would try to boost engagement by adding more initiatives, what employees actually wanted were “fixes to difficult processes.” AI search makes finding the information your people need straightforward, surfacing the most relevant answers so that they can spend less time searching.
Thrive’s AI summaries help your people engage with their learning without having to comb through pages upon pages, by offering concise overviews of long-form content instantly. AI-powered learning has never been so easy.
For an example of this AI technology in action, tune into Thrive's webinar on Thursday, Feb 13, 2025, during which Josh (Thrive's Chief Growth & Innovation Officer) will be joined by Scott Dudley-Jones (L&D Specialist at Interpath Advisory.) Together, they'll discuss how Scott and his team are using Thrive’s AI features to save time and boost efficiency, tailor learning for their people, and create engaging content in a matter of seconds.
Besides our incredible customer support team, one of the most commonly-cited benefits of Thrive is its smooth, easy-to-use interface. To us, it’s simple: Will your learners want to continually return to a platform that looks like a clunky, slow and confusing website made in 2003? No. They’ll want to return to something that looks slick, smooth and easy to navigate – like Thrive.
With custom homepages, a configurable theme, and personalised onboarding process, you can make the platform your own.
Thrive customer Huel used this enhanced user experience to its fullest, cutting down onboarding time for their new starters and achieving their 90% engagement KPI within the first 2 months of launch. Vicki Bacon, People Manager at Huel, commented: "We're really pleased that it’s saved time for our "Hueligans." Cutting down on time spent answering the same questions over and over has all been achieved through creating our own content to counter these questions, and form part of the onboarding process.”
Does this sound like what your team needs in 2025? Perhaps you'll be our next case study. Boosting workforce engagement isn’t an exact science, but we think we’ve found a formula that works. Schedule a demo with a member of the Thrive team, and find out how our LMS can help you achieve real results.
Explore what impact Thrive could make for your team and your learners today.
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