At Liberate Learning, we humbly believe we operate as the best eLearning development team we possibly can be. We dare to say this because it is what our clients across the board tell us after they start working with us, and because our industry peers voted us to be Australian Education and Training Provider of the Year (2019 MyBusiness), and Learning Provider of the Year (2019 AILP), among others. The work we do would not be possible without our team, all of them experts in their respective crafts.

So, we recently sat down and looked deeper into how we usually attract, grow, and develop our people to give us that edge, that X-Factor, which makes such a positive difference to our clients. We want to make sure we know what works well in finding the right people for us, so we can continue on this path and adjust when necessary.

Here are what we identified as our secrets to becoming the best eLearning Development team in Australia:

Liberate Learning is a complete provider of workplace learning solutions

For our clients, the reality is that our eLearning development team are a complete learning solutions partner, as we offer the entire bandwidth of training and workforce development:

• Custom e-learning solutions
• Instructor-led training design
• Blended learning consulting
• mLearning
• Microlearning
• Performance support tools
• Video and animation.

This breadth of service means our team covers a wide spectrum of professional skills at the highest level, from strategic learning consultants, project managers, educators, to graphic designers, multimedia developers, instructional designers, videographers, motion graphics designers, and animators.

How we find the best eLearning experts in Australia

Only once in ten years have we ever advertised any roles in our team on Seek or alike; we grow by attracting top talent to apply to us. Working with Australia’s largest corporate, top universities and governmental organisations, we see hundreds of work samples every day, and outstanding work always sticks out. Hence, the chances are that by the time such a top performer knocks on our door, we already know what they can do.

We expect our team members to be highly proficient in the skills and tools of their trade, be it authoring tools or storyboarding, stakeholder liaison or instructional design, we need first-class skills for the client work we do. People come to us ready to hit the ground running.

Our culture of client-centric excellence

Apart from the job role-related technical skills, we need people with the right cultural fit. There is no point in being a master of their tool/skill if this is not matched with an absolute commitment to collaborative project acumen and top communication skills.

Yes, we are learning nerds, but we do understand and speak our clients’ business languages fluently. We commit to delivering quality deliverables on time and budget, job-for-job, and we expect all our team members to manage their priorities to meet or exceed client expectations.

If this makes us sound like a team of workaholics, we know this is not true, as our team members entertain a lot of interesting hobbies and passions to make sure our minds keep fresh. In our midst, we have hobby-pilots, farmers, cartoon designers, photographers, golfers, surfers, gaming masters, to name a few of our quirks.

Liberate Learning is an Australian-based experts team

We work across industries and also with many Australian Federal and State Government departments, some with high-level security clearance requirements. Therefore, we have strict background and compliance checks in place, and we only engage people who have the right to live and work in Australia for the same reason.

While formal qualifications are welcome, and we hold many of them in our team including four with Doctorates and many with Masters degrees, our experience shows that current Australian industry experience is more critical for us to reach the level of client satisfaction we expect to provide.

Innovation in eLearning

The digital learning industry is moving fast, and all of us at Liberate are passionate about being at the forefront of innovation, continually looking for better ways to design, develop, and deliver learning. Being at the cutting edge enables us to be nimble and react to changing environments like in the current COVID pandemic. For example, we recently produced an entire reel of virtual reality (VR360) footage to enable virtual university open day tours for remote or international students.

Does this sound like an eLearning development team for you?

We always welcome the opportunity to talk to new talent. If you consider yourself as an experienced learning innovator and would consider yourself suitable to join our team, contact rodney@liberatelearning.com.au, give him a call on 0413 082 712 , or connect with him on LinkedIn.