SAN DIEGO (October 1, 2024) – Hone, renowned for pioneering live skills development and leadership training, proudly reveals expansions in its live online class offerings, new learning experiences, and platform enhancements. Hone’s innovative employee development platform is a trailblazer, merging the world’s largest library of interactive, live learning experiences with highly effective and scalable employee development solutions.
Hone empowers HR teams with an unparalleled variety of customizable employee development options tailored to their organization’s unique needs. These include public Membership classes that connect employees globally, private cohorts for exclusive in-house training, and instructor-led experiences like peer groups and group coaching to foster and reinforce vital skills.
“Historically, upskilling at scale relied heavily on pre-recorded webinars which failed to truly engage learners,” remarks Tom Griffiths, CEO of Hone. “Today, we are excited to introduce the latest evolution of Hone—a highly interactive and engaging learning platform designed to help every employee enhance their skills, driving individual and organizational success forward.”
This comprehensive platform, building on its existing live leadership training since 2018, now extends its offerings across three key areas:
Instructor-led Learning Experiences
Doubling down on instructor-led learning, Hone is thrilled to introduce three new offerings:
- Peer groups: Employees engage with a community of learners, tackling business challenges and advancing their careers together.
- DiSC personality assessments: Providing employees with new frameworks for recognizing individual strengths and fostering collaboration through assessments and debriefs.
- Team development cohorts: Enhancing team alignment and productivity.
These additions complement Hone’s broad spectrum of training experiences, which also feature group coaching to address specific workplace challenges and practice labs designed for skill reinforcement.
New Live Online Classes
Hone continues to expand its science-backed, industry-leading live classes. The latest additions include series on project management and customer-facing skills, which support the launch of its newest content pillar, functional skills.
Hone’s extensive library now encompasses three essential skill pillars crucial for today’s dynamic workplace:
- Leadership and manager skills: Enabling leaders, from new managers to executives, to drive high-performing teams.
- Universal skills: Essential for every employee’s success, these include communication, collaboration, analytical thinking, and AI literacy.
- Functional skills: Elevating a team’s performance with skills in project management or customer interactions, complemented by peer networking groups for sharing best practices.
Platform Enhancements
At the core of Hone’s comprehensive offerings is a scalable platform that allows HR leaders to efficiently implement effective employee development organization-wide. A standout feature is the Impact Analysis, which delivers detailed insights into the ROI of every training program and class, from overall company impacts to specific skill improvements.
To enhance discoverability within its extensive library, Hone introduces AI-Powered Learning Journeys. These smart recommendations ensure employees find the right class at the right time, continuously fueling their learning paths based on inputs from performance reviews, development plans, and more.
Additionally, Hone previewed a Manager Console designed to cultivate a culture of continual improvement, equipping managers with tools to nurture and supervise employee development.
Breaking new ground, Hone now integrates live online learning into existing HR tech infrastructures. The platform’s integrations extend across HRIS, LMS, and Business Intelligence systems, offering a seamless experience that incorporates Hone’s live learning and analytics directly into HR leaders’ and learners’ preferred platforms.
Hone’s employee development platform is the definitive solution for fostering every employee’s growth in the modern workplace. Its extensive live learning catalog supports individual contributors, new managers, experienced managers, senior leaders, performance management, onboarding, DEI initiatives, and much more.
For more information about Hone, visit honehq.com.
About Hone
Hone is the ultimate all-in-one employee development platform, offering live, interactive classes led by expert facilitators coupled with a scalable infrastructure for proven, effective employee growth. Home to the largest content library of its kind, Hone enables learning leaders to implement live programs for every employee and use case, all within a single subscription. Our mission is to revolutionize employee performance, retention, and engagement, creating learning experiences that drive tangible ROI and lasting behavioral change.
