Adept and Agile Staffing Solution to Plug Skills Gap

Lewis Services is one of North America’s largest vegetation management companies and has been responding to the needs of customers for over 80 years now. With over four thousand team members, the company provides reliable and cost-effective services without compromising on safety and quality. Lewis has served investor-owned utilities, electric cooperatives, and municipal electric utilities providing a wide range of vegetation management services including transmission and distribution utility line clearance, rights-of-way maintenance, and emergency storm response and restoration.

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With over 4000 employees, the 2-person L&D team at Lewis Services is very busy year-round. They need to continuously deliver training programs for their front-line employees and corporate headquarters. In order to provide easy access to their courses and curricula, the organization invested in an LMS. However, even after 6 months of implementation, the LMS could not be set up to function as intended. The L&D department continued to struggle in creating course activities, setting up dashboards, and even generating reports. The onboarding support from the LMS company was abysmal and failed to provide any impact to their L&D initiatives.

“We were unable to utilize the system according to our training needs, and the implementation did not deliver the promised end-user experience.” Christyne Hurdle, Manager, Organizational L&D Solutions.

With the investment bearing no fruit, Lewis Services reached out to ELB Learning to help them solve the challenge of their L&D team needing additional training so they have the knowledge and experience needed to create a great learning experience in the LMS. They needed to quickly find an LMS Administrator consultant who had the knowledge, expertise, and experience with Lewis Services’ LMS.

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ELB Learning prides itself on its vast pool of vetted L&D consultants who are ready to be placed as per client needs. However, we looked beyond our network of consultants to meet the specific demands of Lewis Services. We were determined to attract and secure the best fit and within 48 hours, we had the perfect consultant lined up ready to start.

The consultant has a wealth of experience implementing, training, and supporting various learning management systems. She has supported over 25,000 employees at a given time across multiple industry verticals. The consultant even brought to the table relevant industry experience, which helped her understand Lewis Services’ unique challenges at hand. She was onboarded quickly and hit the ground running.

‍“We chose ELB Learning as our staffing partner because of their knowledge of the system and being able to source a contractor who can support us with both admin and end-user experience,” said Christyne.

The consultant addressed the needs of the Lewis Services by creating course templates, activities, dashboards, and a framework for easy user management. Custom analytics and automated registration were set up, saving valuable time and resources for the L&D team. Further, additional tasks like badging, tech support, and training the in-house team on these specific skills were executed within the prescribed time frame.

‍“Right from the start, the contractor was able to squash lingering pain points, and simplified critical reporting and analytics.”

-Sarah Messenger, Organizational Learning & Development Solutions Specialist

The consultant provided immense value and led the way in maximizing outcomes from the learning management system. Lewis Services was extremely satisfied with the consultant’s performance so they extended her initial contract to provide ongoing LMS training and support. Through ELB Learning’s staff augmentation services, Lewis Services was immediately able to solve their challenges, which helped pave the way for them to quickly and more efficiently build and create impactful learning experiences for their employees. 

‍“ELB Learning is our reliable partner! The contractor was forthcoming on best practices for us, and helped us ace navigation from the homepage, among other wins. Additionally, we were able to roll out the system to our leadership team in record time, and deliver standardized training to our vast, dispersed audience,” said Sarah.

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