As a learning partner and facilitator, I'm responsible for designing and delivering effective training programs that help onboard new employees and up-skill team members. Since I work for a large tech company (based in New Zealand), every team and learning and development need is unique. I needed a system that organises all of my company's unique learning initiatives in a way that allows for easy collaboration across my learning team and cross-functional partners. And so, I built this base on Airtable.
​
I've used this base over the past few years to help my team with a variety of learning processes, including managing the status of learning content, curating learning guides for employees to refer to, tracking facilitator availability, and collecting stakeholder feedback for our team. I also built a Record of Learning table to keep track of information that couldn't be captured by my LMS.
​
Creating this database in Airtable solved a multitude of problems we had around collaborating amongst our team of 17, and consolidating systems and processes. For example, we previously used shared Excel spreadsheets - a stagnant and cumbersome approach. If one user were viewing the spreadsheet, it locked any other user from making updates simultaneously. Airtable allowed us to work on the same table together and even communicate within the very table we were referencing. We also consolidated various systems and access requirements to everything being available and accessible from one place. Here are a few highlights:
​
​
​
​
​
Please Note: All data within this example database is has been fully redacted. All named entities are fictional, and all business information has been significantly generalized to protect our company's IP. That said, we've left just enough truth to make the function of our database legible to other process-oriented learning professionals.