Learning Management & Talent Development Insights
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Facing an FDA audit in the medical device manufacturing industry
If you are a medical device manufacturer, you already understand the substantial role regulations and regulatory agencies play in your business. In particular, the FDA’s 21 CFR Part 11 standard. The FDA audit is one of the most anxiety-producing prospects for medical device manufacturers, and for many manufacturers, it is also the most challenging part […]
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Building effective eLearning scenarios
Including a scenario in your eLearning content tends to be a very effective method, regardless of whether it is a performance or information-based course. The benefits of scenario-based learning include the following: Scenarios are great for evoking emotions in learning content. When emotions are evoked on the part of the learner, the result is better […]
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Gamification: Avoiding the struggle with employee engagement
One of the biggest complaints employers have in terms of training and development is an overall lack of engagement on the part of employees. It is difficult to increase the level of engagement employees feel toward corporate training materials, regardless of how important the information may be, and employees who do not feel engaged tend […]
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eLearning paves the way for improved Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Medical device manufacturing is a complex industry, primarily because of the amount of regulation it’s subjected to, on both a federal and state level. The bulk of these regulations stem from FDA guidelines and this has a major impact on everything from how equipment is operated to employee productivity. In a heavily regulated industry like […]
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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 […]
