{"id":18312,"date":"2021-02-17T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T23:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/?p=18312"},"modified":"2021-02-18T10:13:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T16:13:22","slug":"invaluable-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/invaluable-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Invaluable Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Training doesn\u2019t just matter at United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), says Vice President and Training Leader Matthew Boschi, \u201cit\u2019s literally part of our daily DNA that our 7,000 team members live and breathe every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Two of the lender\u2019s core values\u2014\u201cPeople Are Our Greatest Asset\u201d and \u201cContinuous Improvement Is Essential for Long-Term Success\u201d\u2014are focused on people and making them better through training and coaching. \u201cTraining helps us win,\u201d Boschi explains\u2014indeed, in addition to netting the top spot on the Training Top 100, UWM is now eligible for induction into the Training Top 100 Hall of Fame in 2022 after earning rankings in the Top 10 for four consecutive years. \u201cIn our industry, everyone has similar products, customer service platforms, and technologies; however, the great differentiator is our culture and our people. We\u2019ve created a culture that genuinely puts the development of our people first and truly cares about our people getting a little bit better each day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Continuous Improvement (CI) Training and Coaching plays a big role in that culture. It is conducted daily in all areas of the company between 1 and 2 p.m., 2 and 3 p.m., and 3 and 4 p.m. in half-hour or one-hour increments as determined by the business areas (available remotely and in-person prior to COVID-19). CI Training and Coaching is not conducted on an \u201cas-needed basis\u201d\u2014the training is required\/mandatory in all areas of the company each day, and participation\/completion is reported weekly to senior leadership. All team members must complete a minimum of three hours of CI Training each month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Each business unit Training team collaborates with business leaders within that unit to create specific learning objectives for each area to improve knowledge, skills, and behaviors within the specific business lane (i.e., Sales, Underwriting, Operations, IT, Support, Leadership, and Corporate). The business unit Training team then creates, designs, tests\/ pilots, schedules, conducts, and delivers CI Training and Coaching to their team members in their business unit\/lane during the specified time blocks. CI Training is scheduled throughout the company one week in advance, and topics vary based on business unit needs, skill gaps by role, or industry trends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>By embedding Continuous Improvement Training into its company culture, UWM:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Incentivizes the completion of CI Training companywide. Completion of CI Training hours is tied directly to all career and promotion paths.<\/li>\n<li>Reinforces companywide training participation\/ completion by tying CI Training completion to annualized goals and leader bonus\/compensation packages.<\/li>\n<li>Socializes learning and makes it fun, using the completion of CI Training hours as benchmarks for team, area, and companywide contests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As a result of CI Training and Coaching, Boschi says, 7,000-plus team members received 419,833 hours of CI Training in 2020\u2014a 128 percent increase over 2019 totals\u2014which has resulted in significant on-the-job behavior changes throughout the company, most notably as they pertain to sales and service. \u201cFor example, because of CI Training and Coaching, our account executives (AEs) are providing better guidance\/service to our clients,\u201d he notes. \u201cLoan submissions were up by 77 percent over 2019. Loan errors and defects decreased by 0.07 percent, and client requests (CRs) were resolved in 90 minutes or less 81 percent of the time in 2020. We were 6 percent more efficient\/faster than we were in 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>UWM\u2019s Client Service and Call Scoring Teams monitor and score calls AEs have with clients after the training. \u201cThis ensures service protocols are being adhered to and key performance indicators covered in AE CI training are applied to interactions with our clients,\u201d Boschi says. \u201cThis equates to higher Net Promoter Scores (NPS). Last year, UWM\u2019s Client Service and Call Scoring Team scored 432,005 calls by 720 account executives. The call score average for AEs in 2020 was 98.5 percent\u20148.5 percent above the company\u2019s 90 percent standard and a 1 percent increase over 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Overall, CI Training has helped UWM increase closed loan origination volume by 85 percent to $186 billion in 2020 and close 588,959 home loans in 2020 alone (exceeding the goal of 400,000 closed loans by 77 percent).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>A POWERFUL PARTNERSHIP<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Boschi credits UWM\u2019s unique culture to the partnership between its senior leadership team and its Training professionals, who set company goals together. One goal they set in 2020 was to increase retention to 90 percent by engaging team members. As a result of the CI Training program, UWM improved company retention by 4 percent to 91 percent in 2020. Additionally, 636 UWM team members earned promotions last year alone, a 42 percent increase over 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cTraining played a huge role in helping the company accomplish our goals last year, particularly in the face of the pandemic\u201d Boschi notes. \u201cThe fact that our company was still hiring, onboarding, and able to train people through the pandemic was extraordinary.\u201d Almost overnight, he says, \u201cwe hired, onboarded, and trained more people than ever last year\u20142,432 new team members, a 55 percent increase over 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Most companies onboard people once a month or sometimes every couple of weeks, but UWM literally onboards new team members every week. All new team members go through \u201cNew Hire Experience\u201d (NHE), a five-day orientation and onboarding process (total of 40 hours) with company trainers and leaders\u2014including UWM\u2019s CEO, Chief Risk and Operations Officer, Chief People Officer, and Vice President of Training\u2014to indoctrinate them to the company\u2019s values, set behavior\/performance expectations, teach them industry basic skills, and prepare them for their initial role-specific training.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cOur capacity to onboard and develop new talent during 2020 gave us an edge on the competition, helping us achieve a 12 percent market share gain because we had more hands on deck to serve the broker community,\u201d Boschi notes. \u201cWe expect to onboard another 1,500 hires in first and second quarter 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>BIG INVESTMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>UWM made significant investments in training last year\u2014from increasing the size of its Training teams to 210 full-time Training team members from 141, to implementing and expanding technologies to make training more accessible to team members.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d say that besides the investment in our people, the biggest investment we made last year was partnering with a new learning management system (LMS) vendor, Cornerstone OnDemand, and expanding our authoring tools, WalkMe and Vyond, to put training at the fingertips of our internal clients (team members) and external clients (the broker community),\u201d Boschi says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As a result, UWM increased by 67 percent the number of virtual instructor-led training (VILT) courses offered to team members and broker clients. \u201cWe also delivered 5,304 computer-based training (CBT) modules last year, an increase of!2 percent,\u201d Boschi says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As UWM employees started to work remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Training team saw it as an opportunity to both continue and improve virtual training company wide. \u201cOur aim was to train 100 percent of our people as they started to work from home and to increase our virtual\/ online training capacity by 10 percent,\u201d Boschi says. \u201cOver several weeks, our Training teams transformed 85 percent of our instructor-led trainings (ILT) into VILT courses and CBT modules.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Boschi explains that the teams achieved this by:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Converting 27 of 32 ILT programs into VILT Webinars through Zoom and Microsoft Teams.<\/li>\n<li>Integrating Zoom, Kahoot, and WalkMe (guided tutorials) into the new LMS to make remote training more user friendly and accessible.<\/li>\n<li>Creating 754 VILT\/CBT modules in Captivate\/ WalkMe to increase virtual\/online training capacity by 15 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Modifying Cornerstone and WalkMe to schedule \u201cboosts\u201d (quizzes\/automated tutorials) to improve post-training knowledge\/skill retention.<\/li>\n<li>Reimagining 496 instructor-led learning activities into 321 new remote learning activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a lot more fluid and mobile now because of the pandemic,\u201d Boschi admits. \u201cBefore, almost everything we did was instructor-led. Now, though, the majority of our training is being done remotely while our team members mostly work from home. It has made our Training teams more creative as they had to revisit instructional activities and find ways to make them work in online environments.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>To help people adopt usage of Microsoft Teams, Kahoot, Vyond Videos, and Cornerstone, UWM engineered and mandated a 30-day work-from-home (WFH) competition from mid-April to mid-May 2020 that pitted six company business areas against one another to see which area could enroll and complete the most CI Training modules. At a minimum, every day, Corporate Training enrolled each UWM team member into one half-hour Company CI Training module that was required to be completed by all team members (including leaders). Business units were empowered to create and enroll their units in additional daily CI Training to \u201cwin\u201d the contest, so long as the training was delivered via the LMS. All subject matter had to be business specific to the company or business area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The winning business unit was crowned and recognized as the Virtual P5 Training Champion for 2020 (this program earned a 2021 Training Top 100 Outstanding Training Initiative Award; see p. 70).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The contest saw 137,570 CI Training enrollments, with 132,580 completed remotely by UWM team members (96 percent). During the Virtual P5 Training Blitz, 6,000-plus team members received\/completed 125,840 hours of CI Training (30 percent of the 2020 total), all from the comfort and safety of their own homes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>BOLDLY GO AND DEVELOP<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Looking ahead, one of the biggest trends Boschi sees continuing to grow is that companies will trust and empower team members more, and let them have more ownership over their own development. \u201cWe need to provide the tools and get out of our learners\u2019 way,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s a Google\/YouTube learning type of world now. People want their learning small, specific, and targeted to what they need\u2014not what others assume they\u2019ll need.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Boschi says one big reason UWM upgraded its LMS was to start utilizing artificial intelligence (AI). \u201cThe fact that AI can serve up training to team members based on their interest is going to be huge for our team members and clients,\u201d he believes. \u201cWe\u2019re also exploring interactive coaching platforms using virtual reality for leadership training.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Peering ahead to the next decade, Boschi is thinking <em>Star Trek.<\/em> \u201cI\u2019d like to see virtual reality (VR) rooms like holodecks where people can boldly go and develop like they\u2019ve never developed before. We\u2019re already building immersive escape room scenarios\u2014why not a room populated by avatars people can role-play conversation with based on their job function or role?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He believes that could be the norm by 2031. \u201cLook how far we\u2019ve come in the last decade,\u201d Boschi says. \u201cTen years ago, you still needed computers, had to download\/copy music files, use spreadsheets.. .now all you need is a phone or an iWatch or other piece of wearable technology that streams. I think we\u2019re just getting started on the streaming of interactive virtual activities. Maybe team member employment bands will have embedded hologram mentors who appear at the push of a button. What\u2019s to say learners can\u2019t have a heads-up display (HUD) for all training and employment needs or purposes?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>All in all, Boschi predicts learning and development (L&amp;D) is going to get faster, better, smaller, and more mobile. \u201cL&amp;D professionals can\u2019t relax,\u201d he warns. \u201cWe have to put training at people\u2019s fingertips\u2014and it has to be fast and provide a powerful impact. If our learners aren\u2019t able to continuously improve all the time\u2014when they want and when they need to\u2014then we\u2019re already behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>With that, he says, \u201cif L&amp;D organizations stay diverse in thought, remain fast and flexible, and continue to hire passionate people who are dedicated to developing greatness in others all the time.. .well, the future\u2019s so bright, we\u2019ll all have to wear shades!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>TRAINING ROI<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>United Wholesale Mortgage\u2019s Continuous Improvement Training and Coaching Program contributed to significant business results, including:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Loan submissions were up by 77 percent over 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Closed loan origination volume increased by 85 percent to $186 billion in 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Loan errors and defects decreased by 0.07 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Client requests (CRs) were resolved in 90 minutes or less 81 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