Use Case | Brambles
Delivering Zero Classroom Training with Improved Apps
Helping customers get the most out of their Salesforce investment.

A customer’s approach to zero classroom training
One of the world’s most sustainable logistics businesses, Brambles came to Improved Apps to help them implement zero classroom training in Salesforce throughout their organisation.
Their goal was to drive digital transformation, usage and adoption to make the most of their investment in Salesforce.
Before we dive into the details, here are Brambles’ top 10 tips for achieving that goal:
- Implement a ‘Zero Classroom Training Policy’ within the Salesforce platform
- Use Improved Apps inside Salesforce to create a virtual experience
- Engage your leadership to ensure their support
- Involve your people as early as possible
- Grant local control to business divisions
- Provide information at the point of need
- Serve up content based on users’ needs
- Build a strong ‘change network’
- Create ‘learner journeys’
- Multilingual content
“We implemented a zero-classroom training policy which met with resistance from users who were used to classroom training! Our immediate “need to know” pieces of learnings - In-App help learnings - were, critically, supported by a strong change network of respected experts in each department.”
In this video, Julie shares her top tips for successfully implementing a ‘Zero Classroom Training Policy’ with Improved Apps.
The way we learn has changed
Julie was surprised but pleased by how quickly Brambles was able to transform the way they delivered training, education and learning opportunities. She was happy to summarise her findings for us:
Wow! Times have changed quicker in the last 12 months than the previous 5 years put together. Resolving the issues behind the delivery of Training, Education and Learning, ‘the new way’ has forced many businesses to rethink everything.
It is clear we need a different approach. Some businesses are trying to paper over the cracks. However, Improved Apps are helping businesses like yours get closer to a real (crack-free) solution, with a focus on quick, measurable wins.
Know your audience
First, the old paradigms of Education (Knowledge Transfer) and Training (Skill Transfer) are still relevant, but current training methods (self-paced training, instructor-led training, video training, e-Learning) are perhaps less appropriate for remote workers and globally distributed training audiences.
Any time, anywhere access
With the internet able to deliver solutions anywhere, any time, people expect to access learning opportunities in a similar way. This is a challenge for those responsible for user management, who now have a whole extra raft of requirements to consider, from language, skill level and role type, to solution and company or division rules and processes... turns out this is quite complex!
Classroom-free measurement & assessment
Next come the challenges of providing skill-level measurement, certification, integration with existing skills, and access to LMS (Learning Management Systems), DMS (Document Management Systems e.g. SharePoint, Google, Enablement) and CMS (Content Management Systems) on an anywhere, any time basis.
The cost of change
Then you have to tackle the inevitable objections to the cost of learning and solution changes, reluctance to participate, and how to keep your users’ attention on webinars.
A user engaging solution
Happily, Improved Apps Zero Classroom Training and Learning frameworks have helped us overcome all these challenges, using something we call the ‘User Engagement Layer’ for Salesforce.com
Requirements for zero classroom training
Julie listed the functionality she required from this new approach to training. It needed to:
Improved Apps zero training solution
Improved Apps deliver a training solution that addresses all of these requirements and is integrated fully within Salesforce. In-app guides allow a user to select a walk-through tour, entering and leaving the guide without having to complete it (great for top-up purposes). Based on role, skill, language or position in the application, the user will be prompted to access training notes, videos, and other pertinent content.
It’s a very flexible solution, with multi-language functionality, and the ability to load base-level content packages of material for modification by other user types or divisions.
In essence, it’s an approach to learning fit for the challenges of our modern world while still being able to incorporate and complement more traditional training methods.
“Within 30 days 80% of learning is forgotten”
German Psychologist, Hermann Ebbinghaus identified this in his research that became known as the ‘Forgetting Curve’. Improved Apps’ approach to learning addresses this problem by allowing users to dip in and out of material as and when they need it, providing training that creates short term interest and long term change.