Relias

““We’ve been looking to create a staff development program for succession planning, for career development, and to prepare employees who want to go into supervisory roles. Relias fit the bill.””

““We have a lot of new frontline managers… The training on professionalism—team building, effective communication, conflict management—will enhance managers’ soft skills.””

““We have a strategic plan for retention, and one of our goals is to provide more staff development and training programs,” Aggie said. “With Relias, we’re able to provide courses and trainings we were never able to provide before, because of that extensive library.””

““I think between all those cost savings, it will pay for itself.””

““Relias keeps updating the trainings. It’s taken that off our plate, so we don’t have to worry about it.””

““There’s a lot of things that we can customize, and we can upload our own trainings if we want to. It’s very comprehensive and more than I expected. We’re learning all the bells and whistles of the system. It does have a lot of bells and whistles!””

““The implementation process has been very easy to follow, very professional, no issues. Easy to implement and easy to use.””

““I did a demo and was very impressed with Relias,” Aggie said. “What was most impressive to me was the library of courses. We have access to more than 700 different courses.””

““There’s the mileage reimbursement, the travel time for those employees, the cost of having the employee not at the program site, and the cost of replacing that person,” Aggie said. “Additionally, the results of our staff satisfaction and engagement surveys showed that one of the biggest complaints from the employees was traveling to the main office for training.””

““The biggest challenge is that we are very geographically spread out,” said Aggie Niemiec, Vice President of Human Resources and Organizational Development at Alternatives, Inc. “We cover six different counties in New Jersey, so we have staff who live and work almost an hour and a half away from our main office where we conduct all the trainings.””

““If I have a drill-down question, I e-mail my Client Success Manager and they figure it out. It’s been a very good working relationship.””

““The information is now fresh in [employees’] minds when they work with residents. Think about how many face-to-face sessions it would have taken to have that impact.””

““The ability to track everything quickly is a huge plus.””

““I’ve authored courses on orientation and drug policy and am working on a few others, and I like that I can pull reports to let me know who I need to talk to about policies or training,””

““Employees like the system. I had one laundry supervisor complete more than 30 hours of elective training on her own.””

““Out of 90+ employees, only about four or five people are behind in their training,””

““The cost of having a small number of people sitting in training was about $8,000 per year for only 40 percent compliance,””

““It would cost us one person’s entire day just to get through new employee orientation,””

““The attitude of doing things the way you always have means you’re living in the past. When you do that, there’s no possibility for the future.””

““We’ve gotten a ton of training done in the first few months. Within 30 days, we matched our total compliance rate from last year.””

“Relias is comprehensive in that we have staff that are paraprofessionals… psychologists, doctors, licensed social workers…it offers trainings throughout whatever role or educational level our staff come from.”

“With so many different services that we provide…Relias allows us to do a comprehensive training assignment for every position type in our agency.”

“If I ever have an issue, I report it to Relias and very soon after I get an email or a phone call,”

“Whether it’s customizing our programming with courses that work for our specific needs or simply giving us the ability to work on our own time in the style that suits us best, Relias has done wonders for our organization.”

“Using Relias has allowed our organization a great deal of flexibility,”