Knotopian: Reforming the Way People Learn

Knotopian

Reforming the Way People Learn

With the rapidly increasing demand for eLearning solutions, researches are also being performed parallelly. Among such researches, a new research report by Global Market Insights, Inc. has predicted that by 2027, the eLearning market size is set to exceed USD 1 trillion. The figure xspeaks about the high demand and the curiosity of the people to learn more and more.

“When it comes to eLearning, content means everything. If eLearning content is not masterfully designed, all the rest will just go down the drain”, says the founder of eLearning Industry Christopher Pappas.

So true! Huge numbers of eLearning content production companies have come up in a very less time. Knotopian is one such company. Knotopian’s mission is to EMPOWER every individual and organization on this plant to achieve more. Keeping its employees motivated and ensuring the best results, Knotopian has earned a good name for itself in the L&D space. Its efforts and productivity have made it eligible to be a part of our edition Company of the Year 2021. Let us get to know how exactly Knotopian, which was founded by Nirmal Periyasamy, has been able to stand out from the crowd.

ABOUT THE COMPANY
Knotopian is one of the fastest-growing eLearning production companies with innovation as the core value. It is engaged in designing and developing bespoke custom learning solutions for organizations, educational institutions, and NGOs.

Their services include gamified learning, scenario-based learning, mobile learning, simulations, flash to HTML5 conversions, and localization.

INCEPTION STORY
It was much before the COVID pandemic, that people across the globe had started looking for online learning. In fact, organizations in high numbers had begun investing lots of money to ensure developing the skills of their workforce through online learning. Knotopian always believed that learning should be fun instead of just the ‘click-to-next’ slides. They believe in educating organizations the power of online learning. Thus, to reform the way people consume information (knowledge) – Knotopian was started. Knotopian means ‘Knowledge Reformer’.

WE HIRE FOR ATTITUDE
The proud founder affirms, “We believe in seeing the attitude of the person towards work while hiring them. Skill is something that can be learnt or trained anytime. People should be ready to take responsibility and give their best in every task assigned. I am blessed to have such an enthusiastic team.”

He adds further that the very base of their work culture is to support each other at work, instead of playing the blame game. The fact is that if people are taken care of, they will take care of the rest.

THE PANDEMIC BROUGHT ENORMOUS GROWTH
To Nirmal and his company, Covid-19 brought growth in the real sense. He without a second thought, claims, “Being brutally honest, we had an enormous growth during the Covid-19 crisis. One of the major reasons is that we are into online business. Apart from this, to ensure the safety of our team members and their loved ones, we started working from home.

It was looked after that the team members enjoyed their personal time and worked only during the work hours. In fact, at times, there were situations when our people voluntarily worked extra hours and we forced them to log off and continue the work on the next day. All this attributed a lot in delivering quality bespoke outputs even during the crisis.”

MORNING QUIZ TO FRIYAYS
A lot of fun learning activities are organized for the team at Knotopian. This is performed with the motive to explore and stay synchronized with the latest technological advancements. Among these are Morning Quiz, FriYAYs, and non-project tasks. Morning quiz as its name deals with a quiz competition and is held every morning. The questions comprise of those from eLearning, designing, learning advancements etc.

FriYAYs witness the members sharing what new they learned in the week and if anything inspired them. Under non-project tasks, it is ensured that apart from the client’s projects, the team invests time to explore and create inspiring stuffs.

BEHAVIORAL LEARNING
Apart from academic solutions, corporate learning, Knotopian also provides the ease of behavioral learning. Under this, the company brings to you expert professionals who could guide you in mastering the art of creating anchor points in eLearning that could help your workforce remember and implement what they have learnt. Needless to say, how important this aspect has become today!

QUALITY OF SERVICES & EMPLOYEES’ MINDSET NOT TO BE IGNORED
Multi-level checks are performed before a learning is delivered to a client. Yes, Knotopian does this which involves people from all the teams. Instructional designers, graphic designers, and quality analysts ensure several reviews of the end product. Nirmal does not forget to mention the mindset of his team.

He states, “One of the overseen things is the mindset of the entire team. If the members are not happy or worried for a reason, it may reflect in their work too.” This is crucial and needs to be fixed at first.

CLIENTELE
Knotopian has been witnessing clients from different domains starting from banks, health care, logistics to R & D, mining, manufacturers etc. Naming a few of our clients, IPWEA, AEM, Kemin are there. Quick turnback, regular updates, and transparency in the process by the company have been winning the trust of our clients.

R & D MAKES CLIENTS FALL IN LOVE
The clients fall in love with the deliverables of Knotopian when those are created with unique designs and ideas. These are gained after doing proper R & D. Quick delivery time, content and visual quality, internal process etc. include fortes.

MARKETING
Knotopian is more of a thought to helping and motivating the out there. Every marketing effort ensures people learning. At present, their StoriesNow video series on LinkedIn and YouTube, animated gif quotes along with sharing informative blogs are contributing to this aspect.

USPS
The organization culture of Knotopian, ‘Always-am-available’ concept, and of course, the unity among the team members, are the company’s USPs.

FOUNDER’S EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE DO IT ALL
Getting tremendous love by his team, the founder of the company, Nirmal began his journey as a quality analyst and reached till being a delivery head. With an experience of one-and-a-half decade in the L&D domain with other organizations, Nirmal knows how to lead Knotopian and there he is! His experience and expertise are what assist the organization a lot. His skills for people management makes him loved even more. Also, he has been recognized by the CIO Review India last year.

RECREATIONAL APPROACHES
Knotopian awards Amazon Gift Cards to its employees every month, team lunch, and Happy Hours are few to be named among such approaches

800 + HOURS OF LEARNING
Only in a short duration of two years since its inception, the company has created 800+ hours of learning for various organizations across the world.

AIMS & CHALK MINDS
First of all, the company would empower more and more people and organizations around the globe to achieve more. Secondly, Chalk Minds – a training division of Knotopian would be launched. They are also working on their user-friendly LMS which can provide enhanced learning experiences to its users.

TAKE CARE OF YOUR PEOPLE, THEY WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU
Last but not the least, the visionary conveys a beautiful message for the budding entrepreneurs and the readers – Take Care of Your People, They will Take Care of You!