7 ways to boost digital literacy

Digital transformation processes can be mammoth undertakings, and building digital literacy among your team members are vital to success. Here are 7 important things to keep in mind to make sure your organization is ready for change.

Smartcube Solutions champion digital transformation processes. We know they can make whole industries more sustainable, help balance growth and job security and vastly improve your company’s resilience against market fluctuations.

It’s not always easy, though. Even if your strategies and team members are well-aligned, you have the necessary resources allocated and your clients and partners want it, a digital transformation process will quickly come to a standstill if you’re not prepared to up your mind game. Even the EU concurs.

We have made our best effort to lower the bar as much as possible for anyone, regardless of digital proficiency, to use our solution (check them out here!), but we know there’s a high level of play-by-ear out there.

Here are some a few proven effective ways to maximize digital literacy training initiatives: 

1. Workshops, webinars and seminars

Offer regular training sessions and workshops that cover a range of digital tools, software, and concepts, tailored towards different roles in your company, and reward people for signing up for webinars to boost their proficiency. Remember that certification for digital proficiencies are powerful, tangible incentives for other team members to follow suit.

2. Like and subscribe

Offer subscriptions to online learning platforms where employees can access a wide variety of digital courses at their own pace, like LinkedIn Learning, Coursera, and Udemy. Note that free versions often only scratch the surface; true access to knowledge hardly ever comes free. But it’s worth investing in.

3. Find a champion

Identify one or more “digital champions” in your company that can lead the way and inspire and help others. It might be your CDO, or it might be Catherine from Accounting. Find your gems. Make them mentors. Empower them.

4. Re-weave the fabric

Make digital literacy a part of the job description to cement a “learning mindset”, and foster a culture where employees are encouraged to experiment with new digital tools and technologies. Reward those that do. Make it a regular thing; a hackathon doesn’t need to be public or involve external resources; the best and most productive ones are often spur-of-the-moment.

5. Listen to the loop

Create a feedback mechanism where employees can suggest topics they want to learn more about. Use this feedback to tailor your digital literacy initiatives to their needs. While you’re at it: Make sure that the feedback originators are notified and spotlighted when changes they suggested are implemented. It’s a vastly powerful tool to boost morale.

6. Up your gaming

Introduce gamification to learning initiatives. Create digital challenges, quizzes, or competitions that encourage employees to learn and apply digital skills in a fun and engaging way. Make it a regular thing and involve as many as possible. Combined with social activities it can both boost morale and competencies. 7 Build your own oracle

Create an internal digital hub or resource center where employees can find guides, tutorials, and documentation on various digital tools and practices specific to your organization. Digital transformation processes are too often hampered by a lack of internal documentation and helpful resources; start building it early.

7. Ride up front

Last but not least: Lead by example. By not only acknowledging that you don’t know everything, but also by actively participating in knowledge building exercises and initiatives, you’ll send a clear message about the importance of learning new digital skills and lower the bar for your colleagues to join you.

Do you have any more great tips on how to boost internal literacy levels among your team members? Let us know in the comments below! 

Smartcube Solutions aim to eliminate supply chain waste. Waste in this context is not just limited to spares, parts and materials, but also time, money and human resources. We are champions of true digital transformations, and building internal company resources to understand, engage in and embrace the process is vital to long term success. And by definition, sustainability.

Would you like to know more about how our solutions help lower the bar for digital transformation processes? Visit our website here, or drop us a line at post@smartcube.no

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