How a global building-materials leader cut training costs 50% across 10 countries and 3 languages

One central production team, 33 online courses, three languages — and a 90% approval rate from 5,000+ employees.

Building materials — global leader80,000+ employees · 70+ countriesProgram: 10 countries · 3 languages

50%

reduction in training costs

90%

course approval & acceptance

5,000+

employees in target audience

languages, one central team

The challenge

Training a target audience of more than 5,000 employees dispersed across countries as different as Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica — in three languages — made classroom-based training slow and expensive.

It also made it hard to deliver unique, consistent content adapted to one organizational culture.

The solution

The company built its eLearning strategy on courses designed with SHIFT's authoring platform, developing custom online content adapted to its organizational culture. Content was produced in Spanish (66%), Portuguese (30%), and English (4%) to cover the full regional audience from a single production center in Mexico.

Implementation

Courses were designed centrally in Mexico and deployed to operations in 10 countries across the Americas and Europe. The catalog grew to 33 online courses with over 40 hours of online content, at an average adoption pace of 5 courses per employee per year.

The results

−50% training costsAcross the whole program.

90% approval rateApproval and acceptance of online courses.

5,000+ employeesThe program's target audience.

33 courses / 40+ hrsOnline content developed with SHIFT.

3 languages · 10 countriesServed from one central production team.

5 courses per employeeAverage yearly consumption.

In their words

“Our relationship is one of strategic partners, which guarantees the development of unique, innovative content that lets us reach our training goals while adapting to our organizational culture.”

— Talent Management — global building-materials company

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