Rise Up

"An organisation's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

These words of Jack Welch, a writer and former CEO of General Electric, hint at the vitality of training employees across organisations to derive optimum business growth. The outbreak of the pandemic has only accelerated the need for learning. As the progressive return to work is anticipated, the new way to work has been prioritised for organisations worldwide. This creates the demand for innovative learning solutions to thrive in a hypercompetitive market. These must be creative, easy to use, and highly engaging to ensure a pleasant learning experience and simple for the trainers to deliver the training sessions seamlessly. Besides, these should align with the requirements of all the stakeholders—the learners, the administrators and trainers. Businesses need a scalable, digital platform fully integrated into their environment, which supports the digital transformation processes and contributes to leverage them as learning organisations.

Fulfilling this need is Rise Up, a company based in France that is helping organisations transform their training departments and improve the learners’ experiences. Rise Up offers a single comprehensive learning platform merging the salient functionalities of LMS, LXP and authoring tools, enhancing learner’s experience while streamlining the workflows for the trainers and administrators. “We enable organisations to unleash the potential of their employees and accelerate business growth,” says Arnaud Blachon, CEO of Rise Up.

Unleashing the Potential of Blended Learning

Importantly, even though e-learning solutions existed for the last two decades, their usage was limited due to poor learning outcomes. However, the current pandemic situation has turned the focus on e-learning solutions again. Organisations are finding ways to overcome the disadvantages associated with these solutions. This is where blended learning solutions come to the rescue by targeting not only the learners but also trainers because if the trainer is not integrated with the platform, it is of no use. Rise Up presents one of the first blended learning platforms, helping numerous organisations to create and manage 100 per cent of their training. “We are enhancing both training and trainers with innovative technologies to create attractive and tailored lessons for learners to get through organisation's DNA,” adds Arnaud Blachon. This solution makes the administration of training programs easy by managing face-to-face learning, e-learning, and hybrid learning, from the same interface. Since it is a white label solution, clients can design their own online academy according to their needs.

Rise Up offers a single comprehensive learning platform merging the salient functionalities of LMS, LXP and authoring tools, enhancing learner's experience while streamlining the workflows for the trainers and administrators

"Unlike classic software solutions, Rise Up's solution is fully customisable in terms of interface and processes," says Arnaud Blachon. In fact, clients can start using only the e-learning part and add the blended learning solution later on as per their discretion.

Further, the platform provides a dedicated interface to the trainer, allowing them to create and design the training in their own ways. Here, the integrated authoring tool plays a vital role and helps in simplifying content creation. The platform offers a training catalogue that is enriched with the best content in hard and soft skills to ensure the skill development of employees. It also helps to import existing training and educational content formats into Rise Up and create rich, engaging, and custom-tailored content without leaving the platform. Trainers can also send corrections or personalised encouragement to their learners. In fact, trainers can create and collaborate with learners by working on the same document remotely. To appreciate the achievements of learners, the platform equips trainers to create gamified badges for them. Moreover, the platform’s flexibility empowers any employee to create content.

Rise Up also offers strong KPIs and dashboards to monitor and meet the goals. Rise Up simplifies the organisation of face-to-face sessions, digital signing, and certifications. What's more, the company offers Rise Up Academy, which is a learning space designed exclusively for training administrators to help them stay up to date with market trends and learn about educational tools.

Rise Up’s learning solutions are flexible, mobile and personalised as per learner’s requirements, thereby enhancing learners’ experiences. The platform also renders dashboards and KPIs that help to improve performances. With personalised learning paths, Rise Up's solution can offer learners the entire history of the classes taken, both face to face and virtual and the feedback received from the trainer. The learner is also equipped with a training catalogue to easily find newly added courses and those that other colleagues are attending. By using the search feature, the learner can easily look for courses to improve his skills in a particular field. Further, Rise Up creates a learning community where learners can easily discuss, share tips or advice and interact with other members.

Rise Up is recognised for its excellent client support that ensures optimal utilisation of the solution by the companies and training organisations. At the outset, they execute the platform setup, followed by launching the application, and then carrying out monthly meetings to track the number of connected users and the engagement level.

Bringing to fore Rise Up’s proficiency in transforming the training mechanisms is the eminent sporting goods retailer, Decathlon. Development and enhancement of team members’ skills have always been a prime goal for them. However, their existing training was falling short of achieving this aim. Rise Up helped them to develop a new and unique training platform with blended learning, and with this, the members could create their own development plan and access skill-based training while finding local references to assist with the training. Ultimately, Rise Up aims at simplifying the training process so clients can focus on other tasks such as the quality of the courses and the interaction with learners. “We are continuously working on an ever more modern, fluid and interactive interface to deliver a unique training experience,” says Arnaud Blachon.

Simplifying Learning

The inception story of Rise Up is an interesting one that was stimulated by two brothers, Arnaud and Guillaume, who were on a mission to broaden the horizon of in-company training. In 2014, the duo created a digital campus for organisations without any limit on formats. Soon they received customer feedback based on which they created the first blended learning platform. Today, Rise Up continues to push the boundaries in place.

Over the years, Rise Up expanded its footprint in four countries, including Belgium, UK, Germany and Luxembourg. They are also keen on integrating more adaptive learning to build a smart platform that can automatically customise the learning path based on the learner's requirements. For example, suppose the learner wants to dedicate 30 minutes a week to learn the objectives. In that case, the solution will automatically set a plan based on the time stringency of the learner and offer lessons accordingly. "We are keen to develop smart solutions that can adapt to the trainee's requirements and re-design the learning path automatically," concludes Arnaud Blachon.

Rise Up offers a demonstration of its Blended Learning platform as well as answering various questions from HRTech Outlook readers here : https://www.riseup.ai/en/demande-de-demo?utm_source=hrtechoutlook&utm_medium=referrals&utm_campaign=sponso&utm_content=article-sponso