OPSIS

OPSIS is a company that manufactures and sells instruments for measuring air pollution. The company also operates in the field of food analysis. Today, OPSIS is increasingly evolving into a service provider rather than just a product supplier. As a result, various types of management systems are becoming increasingly important.– “Ensuring that all employees understand the management systems is key to making them work. NanoLearning is a perfect format for this type of training,” says Bengt Löfstedt, Head of Operational Support at OPSIS.

September 29, 2022
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Today, OPSIS uses NanoLearning from Junglemap to raise awareness about the company's various management systems, including quality control and environmental management systems. However, it all started when the company needed to demonstrate the security of its IT environments as part of becoming a service provider. Training staff was a crucial part of that process.
– “When we were preparing for our information security certification, someone recommended NanoLearning,” says Bengt Löfstedt. “Nowadays, we are selling the results of our measurements more than the instruments themselves, and that places high demands on our awareness of IT security, both internally and in relation to our customers.”

Initially, Bengt was just one of the many employees receiving NanoLearning lessons on information security. Today, he is one of three people at OPSIS who administer courses on Junglemap’s platform.
– “It’s a very appealing learning method,” he says. “NanoLearning is fundamentally based on the mother of all learning – repetition.”

Customized Solutions

A general training course on management systems risks being too vague. That’s why OPSIS worked with Junglemap to develop a customized training course tailored to the company’s operations, with multiple versions targeting different groups of employees. Out of a total of 13 lessons, 10 were for everyone and the rest were tailored to specific roles.
– “We rolled out that course in the fall and winter of 2021–22, and it has been very successful with high participation rates and increased awareness of the management system’s content and its relevance to everyday work.”

OPSIS is increasingly using NanoLearning for internal training—at least for initiatives that involve large parts of the staff. The next tailored training will focus on how to send emails. That may sound like something most people already know, but since much of the company’s business communication still happens via email, the format and content matter. Who is the recipient? Who gets CC’d? What do we do with attachments and links? There are many small things that can be improved.

Initially, Bengt planned to deliver a traditional lecture on the topic, but when OPSIS’s CEO saw the draft PowerPoint presentation, he said: “That should be a NanoLearning instead.”
– “And he was absolutely right,” says Bengt Löfstedt. “A classic lecture would only help in the moment. The infamous forgetting curve would strike. Changing established behaviors requires repetition!”

Three takeaways

Increased Awareness

Improves understanding of a given subject area.

Tailored Solutions

Courses with a mix of general and audience-specific content.

Overcomes the Forgetting Curve

Repetition reinforces knowledge and behaviors over time.