Learning Management & Talent Development Insights
Latest trends, ideas and reports in the world of talent development, learning management and edtech
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Employee Training and Startups: Start with Function
Sir Richard Branson doesn’t mince words about the importance of training in startup businesses. In a blog posting called How to Train Your Employees published on www.entrepreneur.com, the founder of Virgin Group with its 400 companies around the world lays out his strategy: “The first goal of any new business is simply to survive. One […]
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How Online Employee Training is an Essential Startup Investment
Startups should invest in customized online employee training programs to clearly communicate expectations, goals, mission, values, job roles and more. Failure to train from day one is costly in three key areas:
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How to Motivate Employees to Complete E-Learning Courses
When a business wants its staff to embrace e-learning, it is often assumed that the motivational techniques to get them to finish courses will be different from traditional training methods.
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Excellent E-Learners: Who Excels at Online Learning?
Everyone can be taught skills, but the manner and pace at which employees absorb knowledge is increasingly vital as corporate America turns to e-learning for training.
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Five Strategies to Engage Employees Who Aren’t Receptive to E-Learning
It is a misconception that the primary reason your workers aren’t responding to e-learning opportunities is because they are resistant to change. That may be true in some cases, but the overwhelming reason is they don’t feel they have the time.
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Global Trends in E-Learning
How we learn as individuals and as corporate team members is changing fast, and the pace will continue this year. E-learning is expected to grow globally at an average of 23 percent in the years from now until 2017 according to www.elearningindustry.com, the leading source on the industry.
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How the Right Learning Management System Can Improve Productivity
It’s no secret that most businesses increasingly expect employees to accomplish more in less time. The right learning management system can be the solution to boosting productivity because:
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To review or not to review: hiding quiz answers
You probably know that adding assessments, tests or quizzes is a simple but effective method of building accountability and tracking into your e-learning or training program. To prove return on investment, I believe it is crucial in most organizations to be able to show that the training program not only got implemented properly but that […]
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How Learning Management Systems Can Enhance the Workplace Environment
Studies have shown that e-learning is both cost-effective and convenient, attributes that have led to its quick acceptance by a variety of organizations.
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How to select the right online training platform
According to the latest State of the American Workplace Report, nearly 70 percent of U.S. workers don’t like their job. This leads to a disconnected, less productive workplace. Employees are shown to be more engaged and happy in the workplace when well trained to do their jobs and feel they are adding to the success […]
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3 Ideas On How to Train the Millennial Generation
Each generation of workers has its own characteristics. For those workers that fall in the millennial generation, the characteristic that seems to set them apart is that they live and work in a faster-paced world than the generations that came before them. This directly translates to how this generation needs to train, learn and develop […]
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How to Establish a Measurement Program for Your Training Program
Measuring the effectiveness of a training program can be a daunting task. It ends up being more subjective than objective unless you establish a measurement program for your training program. Use these measurements to ensure that you can gather data and metrics on how effective your training program is (or how ineffective it is).