The Find & Follow Training Framework
A 3-phase employee training approach for developing confident, consistent, and independent employees.
Traditional training practices rely on employees memorizing how to do every aspect of their job. Not only does this take months and months, but it develops employees that are nervous, inexperienced, and unprepared to work independently.
For supervisors, this results in high-stress environments, with consistent mistakes, frequent questions, long training times, and employees who can't adapt to change quickly or easily.
New hire training doesn't have to be hard! Instead of expecting employees to memorize how to perform each individual task or navigate every system, you just need to teach employees how to find the information they need, when they need it, and to follow the steps.
That's exactly how the Find & Follow Training Framework works.
How Find & Follow Training Works
The Find & Follow Training Framework is a 3-phase approach to employee training and performance support. Employees start by learning the foundational context of their job. Next, they learn how to search, find, and follow the digital guides they need to perform tasks and solve problems. Finally, employees run through dozens and dozens of practice activities to get comfortable finding and follow the digital guides.
This training approach is part of the larger Find & Follow Framework, a better way to work & train.
Phase 1
Employees watch 2-10 minute self-paced courses or presentations focused on a specific aspect of an employee's job (such as billing, or patient scheduling).
Phase 2
Employees are introduced to knowledge base digital guides, such as articles, checklists, or troubleshooting guides, that they will use to perform specific tasks on the job.
Phase 3
Utilizing the digital guides, employees take on real-life scenarios related to the topic covered in the foundational course.
New-hires who go through Find & Follow Training develop into independent, consistent, and efficient employees faster than ever.
In traditional training methods, employees are required to rely on memorization. Training takes place mainly through classroom lectures and assessments. This can take 3, 6, or even 12 months before employees are confident and proficient on their own.
In Find & Follow Training, the focus changes. Employees only need to learn the foundational material that give context to their job. Once the foundation is set, employees spend 80% of their time doing hands-on practice activities with the digital guides that they will use in their actual day-to-days on the job. This approach results in employees who are not only confident, but eager, to get to work in weeks (sometimes even days).
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A new employee going through training will do the following:
A trainer facilitating the training would do the following:
Here are real metrics from real customers who have gone through Find & Follow Training.
Launching a Find & Follow Training Program at your organization for the first time can be daunting. We've helped teams of all shapes and sizes implement Find & Follow Training and see fantastic results.
Our team will take you through a 5-stage process that will ensure a successful training launch, a repeatable process, and ongoing improvements. Here's how it works:
Plan
Develop
Pilot
Launch
Optimize
During this workshop, your Content Coach will work with your trainers and supervisors to identify what employees will need to know and what they will need to be able to do once they leave training.
This includes:
This will result in a detailed training plan that will identify what you need to develop in Step 2.
During this phase, your Content Coach meets with your team weekly or bi-weekly to offer guidance and feedback on developing all of your training materials, including:
The Content Coach ensures your team is adopting best practices for writing and formatting content so that employees can easily find and follow the required guide within seconds.
During this phase, your Content Coach ensures your trainers are prepared to facilitate a Find & Follow training session.
You will pilot the training with several agents to increase the comfort level of the trainer, identify missing or unclear guides, and make any needed improvements.
This usually takes between 2-3 weeks.
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It's officially time to launch your training program! Employees will walk through the three phases of training (foundation courses, digital guides, & practice activities) for each topic.
Your Content Coach will be available to assist with any questions you run into during training.
As an added option, you can even have your Content Coach facilitate the training for you.
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Once you've gone through training with your new employees and had time to evaluate the success, you'll be able to identify areas for optimization using our Content Optimization Services. This will be done through search reports, usage reports, comments, and even call shadowing.
Our content coaches will walk you through a workshop and/or coaching services.
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The Find & Follow Training Implementation Package costs $4,500. This includes:
We also offer the Content Planning Workshop and coaching sessions as one-off projects. Those prices depend on the scope of your training program.
For more information, schedule a conversation.
The Find & Follow Training Framework improves training experiences and outcomes in the following ways:
A knowledge base software, such as a ScreenSteps knowledge base, is the backbone of the Find & Follow Training Framework.
You will use your knowledge base to create and host your foundational courses, and create your digital guides that employees will use for practice scenarios and on-the-job.
While you can use any knowledge base for the framework, it's important to choose a solution that:
Running a Find & Follow Training program can be a bit different than your typical training session, but it isn't hard to learn. And our coaches can help you get up to speed quickly. We can help with everything from preparing for your event to actually running it alongside you. It all depends on the level of support you need.
Schedule a demo today to talk to a coach.
Yes. We regularly work with organizations to develop and run Find & Follow Training programs.
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Fear of fully committing. Some companies are nervous to totally rely on a knowledge base to guide their employees. Others don't want to instruct employees to follow checklists and guides each time they perform a task.
But, those that only partially commit to adopting the Find & Follow Training Framework only see partial improvements. Organizations that fully adopt Find & Follow Training see dramatic improvements in QA scores, decreased questions, reduced training time, and lower employee stress.
Not designating someone to "own" the process of enabling all employees to have the information they need, when they need it. This means that there is a single person or team that is responsible for creating and updating content right when it is needed, not 2 weeks later.
The tools in ScreenSteps make it very easy to keep on top of your content creation, but unless one person has this as their primary responsibility, the task may get neglected, and employees will have to fall back to memorizing information again.
Below is an example timeline. The actual timeline may vary based on how quickly your team is able to prepare the required content.
Stage | Timeframe |
Stage 1: Plan | 2 weeks |
Stage 2: Develop | 8-12 weeks |
Stage 3: Pilot | 2-3 weeks |
Stage 4: Launch | 1-3 weeks |
Optimize | 4 weeks |
Meet with a knowledge management and training expert to discuss your employee training challenges and see if the Find & Follow Framework would be right for your company.