Learning Management & Talent Development Insights
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Make it meaningful: Tips to evoke emotion in corporate eLearning
Are your training attempts falling flat? If you feel like your employees aren’t engaged, aren’t able to retain information and simply aren’t getting the most from your organization’s training and eLearning, there may be one big culprit: a lack of emotion.
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Want your eLearning to work? Follow these 8 essential writing tips
If you’re in the manufacturing industry, or really any industry requiring your employees to undergo intensive training and development, eLearning is your best tool for achieving your goals. eLearning provides opportunities to improve efficiency, overcome traditional barriers to the training process, and present material in a way that’s going to improve overall retention and comprehension. […]
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Big Courses Delivered In Small Chunks: Hottest 2014 Training Trend
While breaking big courses down into small chunks is one of the hottest e-learning trends in 2014, the concept originated nearly 60 years ago. In 1956, George A. Miller, a cognitive psychologist at Princeton University, suggested in a research paper that the average human can retain seven items in his or her working memory at […]
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Why your Company Needs a Chief Learning Manager
American companies spend more than $130 billion a year on training their staff. Despite efforts by employers to give their workers the chance to learn new skills and absorb more knowledge, only 30 percent of U.S. employees describe themselves as “engaged at work” according to a recent Gallup study. What is even more disconcerting is […]
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Why Cross-Training Through E-Learning Makes Corporate Sense
Today’s companies must respond quickly to sudden influxes of business and rapidly changing markets. Because of this, an increasing number of businesses are using e-learning to cross-train their employees so they are able to perform several jobs within the organization. The trend started in service-oriented businesses such as restaurants and bars where three waiters or […]
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Storytelling: E-Learning’s Hottest Trend
The Choose Your Own Adventure book series, which many adults may remember from childhood, involved the use of branching logic to engage readers. The books posed a scenario. It could be something as simple as stepping outdoors and making observations about the weather and the wildlife around us, and then seeing two paths ahead. We […]
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How E-Learning Can Fill the Soft Skills Gap
The bulk of training dollars is spent on teaching employees job functions, such as how to use specific equipment or follow set processes to create products and services. And yet, when asked what makes their employees valuable, most business owners cite a completely different skill set than straight technical and functional skills. In fact, in […]
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Why Analytical Skills Training Is Growing
We live in the information age, when data flows freely and in all directions at a finger’s click on a keyboard. But as more and more businesses are discovering, having great data is not the same thing as using great data effectively. That’s why an increasing number of corporations are delivering analytical skills training through […]
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Why Your Business Needs Compassion Training and How to Deliver It
Angel Cabrera, president of George Mason University, believes that employees who think business is nothing more than making money are short-changing their corporations. In a recent panel discussion reported by Monica Tanase-Coles on Forbes.com, Cabrera says: “At its very heart, a business is the beauty of bringing together people and things to make the community […]
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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: Productivity – According to Andy Grove, co-founder of Intel and author of High Output Management, training is the management activity that gives you […]
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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. They aren’t, according to a major study done on motivational factors in e-learners. Researchers with Massey University in New Zealand and Athabasca University in Canada […]
