valantic Learning Hub

You can inform yourself directly on the platform in the form of an eLearning tutorial and directly find out more about the platform.

The offering is aimed at all valantic employees – regardless of their role at valantic. As such, everyone at valantic has the opportunity to access the extraordinary offering, regardless of role, location, country or CC affiliation.

The only restriction is that not all of the Competence Centers will be in on it from day 1, only those that have concluded the framework agreement on participation  by the end of April 2023.

The vLearning Hub  is first and foremost an extremely diverse digital self-learning offering. You can take advantage of more than 20,000 different eLearning measures, ranging from short learning nuggets (max. 10 minutes long) to extensive certificate courses. The digital options make up the bulk of the offering.

You can look forward to:

• valantic-specific user training (eLearning) on standard valantic software such as Projektron, Personio, SAP SAC, SAP SuccessFactors
• but also mandatory training such as data-protection and IT-security training
• curated learning journeys (eLearning and blended learning) for valantic roles whose topics and content were developed with valantic People Developers and valantic Subject Matter Experts:
  • personal further development
  • subject-matter further development: These will be available for the SAP division in May. Learning journeys for all other divisions are planned for release over the course of the year – with the participation of the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in the CCs
• virtual language training
• for classroom and online training conducted by external training providers

All valantic employees from the participating valantic CCs have access to the vLearning Hub – this includes C-Level executives. The vLearning Hub offerings are especially practical for managers, as they can be taken advantage of, anytime, anywhere, and in the most practical delivery form. Accordingly, anyone who previously shunned being tied to a classroom seminar for days at a time now has significantly more options for integrating further training into their working lives.

With the switch from the vAcademy to the vLearning Hub, we are expecting several major benefits for valantic as a Learning Company:

• Operational excellence through continuous further development
• Greater attraction for job applicants: further development prospects, appreciative investment in employees
• Retention of key employees / less staff churn:
  • offering of prospects for existing employees
  • employees can take their further development into their own hands and influence it
  • no need to obtain supervisor authorization for self-learning, as the offer is available and can be used at any time (even during free time)
  • efficiency, effectiveness and loyalty boost
• Guaranteed learning standards and learning quality: All employees who further develop their skills with the learning journeys which are created in conjunction with the valantic experts have the opportunity and entitlement to learn the same content and acquire the same skills. As a result, the quality of further development measures no longer depends as much on the supervisor concerned, and fulfills the organization’s expectations of the respective role.
• Time saving and quality assurance:   Curated content helps   managers select training and learning opportunities for their employees: minimal effort for maximum team competency.

Anyone whose Competence Center has concluded the framework agreement on participation  may access the vLearning Hub . All employees of this CC will then immediately receive access to the platform.

Employee data are set up in the master data of SAP SuccessFactors. Our SAP LMS (Learning Management System) imports the necessary data from this. For data protection reasons, the vLearning Hub team is not allowed to actively maintain user data. HR representatives are responsible for maintaining employee data there and have been trained in the use of SAP SuccessFactors.

The CCs thus control the data quality and accesses granted for their CC. The HR representatives serve as contact persons for access-related matters.

Use of the free offers (98%) is unrestricted: The vLearning Hub is your all-you-can-learn platform!

Payable in-house training is marked with a price (price, booking requirements, date, location, etc). Employees who are interested in these should click the “Request” button to send their responsible supervisors a request to participate. The request is sent by e-mail  or system notification to the employee’s direct supervisor who then decides on whether or not to authorize the request. Employees are informed about the status and can then participate – or not, as the case may be.

Payable training conducted by valantic-approved external partners is booked by employees directly with our external partner via their website (at advantageous conditions). In this case, the CC’s guidelines on the decision-making process, booking and participation in further development measures apply.

In general, supervisors and employees fix the further training topics, their scope and the time to be spent on them during an staff performance review. Some CCs have a Learning Framework in which these points are defined. The topic is always discussed and decided at the place of business.

We (the vLearning Hub team) advise and give stimuli to the organization: We take the view that – due to technological progress and the changes in our working world – continual learning is indispensable for all of us to perform our roles and tasks to the best of our ability (operational excellence).

The immense digital learning offering now available to us, and the expertise we have just strengthened in the vLearning Hub team, will enable us from May 2023 onwards to raise awareness of the importance of further development, and simultaneously provide impetus for these topics with curated content.

Each CC specifies its own guidelines on this independently.

The vLearning Hub team is responsible for the vLearning Hub and is your first point of contact for all questions about it.

We have set up a collective e-mail address where Heike Springmann and Jeremy Rodney handle all questions about the vLearning Hub: learninghub@muc.valantic.com

• This is where we answer questions about the vLearning Hub offering and everything to do with the topic of learning.
• Questions about user data / access will be forwarded to the above-mentioned HR representative of the CC concerned.
• Questions concerning requests for authorization are automatically forwarded to the employee’s supervisor.

The first step is for the local HR representatives to set up the employees’ master data in SAP SuccessFactors. This activates access for the employees and causes an e-mail with an access link to SAP SuccessFactors to be automatically sent to them.

The vLearning Hub is a module in the SuccessFactors system. It is accessed via the “My Learning” tile.

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With over 20,000 courses available, finding just the right offer that perfectly matches your needs and wishes is one of our most important concerns.

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Learning journeys are learning paths that are tailored to the needs of specific roles (e.g. Junior Consultant) and help quickly build up one’s own know-how.

Learning journeys are thus a blended learning format. The lion’s share is eLearning – i.e. autonomous online or mobile learning that allows learners to control their development themselves. We have identified and qualified these eLearning measures from the wide range of LinkedIn Learning, bookboon, SAP Learning Hub, etc. The eLearning measures are supplemented by training recommendations, webinars, and collaboration with peers and learning coaches.

The learning journeys can be accessed and used by everyone. Participation in payable training must be authorized beforehand by the person’s supervisor using the approval process described above.

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Simply send an e-mail to learninghub@muc.valantic.com, asking us whether we can recommend something.

No.

All CCs have access to the “valantic World” library. This encompasses learning content for personal further development, LinkedIn Learning, Bookboon Learning, user training for standard valantic software (Projektron, Personio, etc.) , Brown Bag recordings, etc.

Also available is CC-specific learning content that can only be seen by employees of the CC concerned – such as data protection training (mandatory based on organizational legal entity) or local digital onboarding instances.

There is also training and learning content for closed groups, such as participants in the SAP Junior Training, participants of an in-house training measure.

By switching from vAcademy to vLearning Hub, we are hoping to achieve significant improvements in learning at valantic.

Learners:

• … can access a significantly larger learning offering (20,000-plus LinkedIn Learning items, 5,000-plus Bookboon Learning items)
• … can further their education internationally with English-language eLearning measures
• … can take advantage of partnerships with external training providers (quality assurance and advantageous conditions)

Managers:

• … can inspect the learning status of their employees, and thus respond appropriately when more support or time is needed
• … can recommend specific training measures to their employees
• … are provided with an overview of the further development activities in their own team – making skillsets no longer a “black box”

HR managers:

• …can inspect the learning status of their employees, and thus provide them with the best possible support
• …can recommend specific training measures to their employees
• … have learning and training offerings for their employees at a single location, if desired: We also provide local offerings via the vLearning Hub
• … can rely on automated, legally required documentation for the conducting of mandatory training (e.g. data protection eLearning).

All employees of participating CCs are automatically registered and receive an e-mail notification with their login credentials for SAP SuccessFactors. The kickoff date varies from CC to CC. So don’t get upset if you haven’t yet received your login data: You’ll receive it soon!

After that, simply log in. You’ll be able to find your way around the platform in no time at all. There’s a compact eLearning module in the vLearning Hub that introduces the features concisely and will be shown on your home page immediately after you log in for the first time.

If you still have difficulty finding your way around, the vLearning Hub team will be happy to help you. Also, you can always turn to your trusted HR representative to answer any questions you may have. Have fun!

The old vAcademy learning platform was decommissioned on June 30, 2023. The content was migrated to the new vLearning Hub. And the team behind the valantic Academy will of cause also remain!

The vLearning Hub team will back up the certificates and confirmations of participation, and send a copy to your CC’s HR Administration for filing away in your personnel record.

Certificates and confirmations of participation from the outgoing learning platform will NOT be migrated  to the new vLearning Hub.

Our learning management system (LMS) is SAP SuccessFactors Learning. This in turn is a module in the overarching HR system, SAP SuccessFactors.

There is a vLearning Hub app that enables further training while on the road. The cost of the app is included in the SAP licenses, so no additional costs are incurred by users.

Staff performance reviews are used as a venue to discuss the learning goals for the coming year and jointly identify the learning content that the employees should exploit.

Mandatory training, such as in data protection, is attended by all the CC’s employees.

The vLearning Hub can be accessed 24/7 and can therefore be used both for professional and personal purposes.

The use of the vLearning  Hub and associated offering is subject to the same guidelines as the use of any other valantic software application. Employees have a personal login that is reserved for a specifically named  person. This applies to the use of the learning management system license in SAP SuccessFactors as well as to the personalized license purchased from our partners.

Access to the vLearning Hub is regulated by the data privacy policy for using SAP SuccessFactors. The privacy notice can be read when logging into SAP SuccessFactors for the first time.

The vLearning Hub also contains sensitive, valantic-specific information that is subject to the confidentiality obligation set out in our employment contracts.

Consequently, the vLearning Hub may NOT be used by persons outside of valantic.

Yes, managers can access this information.

Yes, managers can access this information as well.