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How to Keep Clients Motivated Through Training: 6 Strategies

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Adult learners have a lot of responsibilities, and keeping them motivated can be a challenge. With work, family and financial pressures, learner motivation often takes a nosedive halfway through their training. It’s tough to balance everything.

Support your clients by joining forces with MedCerts Partner Solutions, a workforce-friendly training provider with flexible, online allied healthcare and IT programs. Progress dashboards, reports and milestone tracking complement your case management to keep your clients on track. 

With structured guidance and actionable strategies on how to keep clients motivated, you can help them build confidence, accountability and educational success. 

1. Set Clear, Attainable Goals Early

Strong starts work best when they’re personalized to each student. From intake, help your client set goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and timely or SMART. This approach breaks training into smaller, more manageable steps to help increase completion rates. 

By partnering with MedCerts, you can track client learning through a module-based structure that helps them stay engaged and motivated. Each module is broken into weekly lessons, with quizzes and assessments to measure their progress.

2. Build Routine Accountability Check-Ins

Regular communication is one of the most underrated routes to success. Conversations can also be stress relievers, helping your clients refocus and stay the course instead of dropping off mid-program. Set up weekly or biweekly accountability check-ins to encourage client progress and help tackle small issues before they become hurdles. 

You can also use data from MedCerts’ progress reports to guide your conversations toward individual struggles.

3. Celebrate Small Wins to Boost Confidence

Validation of effort can be a great confidence booster. With adult learners, especially, those small wins can provide inspiration and help them remain motivated. Boost their confidence by acknowledging their progress, such as when they complete a module, improve their quiz scores or attend lessons consistently.

4. Connect Training to Real Career Outcomes

As your clients work through their lessons, they may wonder what they’re working toward. A clear journey can help adult learners visualize their path and what they may achieve upon graduation. Help them by linking coursework to real job roles and career pathways that demonstrate workforce prospects for their specific training. 

You can also provide salary ranges to increase persistence and solidify their long-term goals.

5. Address Barriers Early and Proactively

Obstacles to learning make it hard to stay on track. Help your clients identify their personal barriers — such as childcare, tech limitations, transportation or work schedules. Then brainstorm ways to problem-solve. 

From flexible, online classes to increased family support and financial assistance options, there are ways to reduce barriers to education. MedCerts understands these barriers. That’s why you’ll see fully online, on-demand programs and numerous workforce funding and payment plans to make education more accessible.

6. Encourage Consistent Study Habits

Study habits can be hard to maintain without support. Encourage consistency with engagement strategies for adult learners, including: time-blocking their schedules, setting reminders and using dedicated study spaces free from distraction. 

Personalized weekly study plans can also help break down study time into manageable amounts.

Turn Motivation Into Graduation

By helping your clients stay motivated during their training, you’ll be celebrating their successes upon graduation. Step by step, you can guide adult learners to overcome barriers, reach personalized goals and find their way into intriguing career prospects.

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Written by

Jennifer Kolb

National Director of Workforce Development

As MedCerts National Director of Workforce Development, Jennifer Kolb is responsible for overseeing strategy and business development efforts at MedCerts with an emphasis on the k-career pipeline.

Prior to MedCerts, Jennifer served in several leadership positions at Tallo and Hawkes Learning where she built and lead sales and marketing, new product launches, technology development updates and an entire product relaunch to be ADA compliant.

Jennifer has spent a decade within the workforce industry working with educators, state leaders, business and industry officials, post-secondary institutions and grant organizations from across the country, all with the mission of bettering people’s lives. Coming from a long line of educators and with a business-centered mindset, Jen is passionate about student success and cultivating creative strategies for ensuring all talent has access to educational and career-related opportunities.

Jennifer earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing and Psychology with a focus in business management from Clemson University.

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