Learning Management & Talent Development Insights
Latest trends, ideas and reports in the world of talent development, learning management and edtech
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Sighting the Target: Employee Development Best Practices
What is the key to running a successful organization? The right product? Great marketing? A thorough understanding of your competitors? Those are important, certainly, but they are not the most critical thing. That title goes to your employees. Without human talent, your organization does not exist. It’s as simple as that. When seen in this […]
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Want to Improve Employee Engagement? Help Employees Develop Crucial Soft Skills
Employee engagement is the unicorn every organization is chasing today. Coupled with the ongoing complications from COVID-19, it leads to a complicated situation. Thankfully, there are proven ways that you can use a learning management system to drive engagement. One of those is to help your employees develop crucial soft skills. What Are “Soft” Skills? […]
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Workplace Resilience: A Key Factor for L&D Initiatives
When you think about characteristics and qualities vital for success in the workplace, what comes to mind? Chances are good you think of having the necessary hard skills, or perhaps it’s doggedness that speaks to you. While employees need a host of different skills and aptitudes to thrive in today’s work world, resilience is perhaps […]
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Cross-Training: Preparing Your Organization for the Unexpected
When it comes to learning and development (L&D), many companies take a “less is more” approach. If yours is one that focuses primarily on ticking the boxes for regulatory compliance and ensuring professional CE is completed, you know precisely what we mean. To some extent, that is understandable, but it can be unfortunate, as it […]
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How to Create a Personal Development Plan
Learning and development (L&D) initiatives are critical to overall business success. However, all too often, we forget that L&D should actually focus on the learners, rather than on preferred business outcomes. Yes, you need to teach X so the business can achieve Y, but your learners are the reason, the motive power within the organization, […]
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The Impact of Self-Directed Learning on Employee Engagement: Building a Better Organization
Most organizations take a similar stance to learning and development. That is, employees follow a structured path forward, marked by pre-defined milestones. It seems like a logical thing to do, and it ostensibly makes it easier to track progress for in-house and compliance needs. However, forcing learners to follow a synthetic structure for their learning […]
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Turning In-Person Training into Virtual Training: A Guide for L&D Teams
Despite the lingering effects of the novel coronavirus, training and development must go on. Many organizations initially paused those efforts at the onset of the pandemic, but as the new paradigm has evolved, it becomes apparent that they must be restarted. Remote work is the new normal, and we must find ways to change and […]
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Virtual Panels: Ensuring Effective Delivery and Engagement
The right learning management system (LMS) will help ensure that your learners are engaged and supported in their training and development journey. However, when it comes to virtual panels, introducing the human element can mean ambiguity – will it turn out dull and lifeless? Will your learners mentally check out during the panel? Will they […]
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Training Records and 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance: What Organizations Should Know
21 CFR Part 11 applies to all digital records within your life science business. That includes your learning and development initiatives. It is important to understand how the FDA’s rules affect training records, including their storage, access, and more. Of course, navigating this area can be confusing, so we created a guide to help ensure […]
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Your Guide to Converting Instructor-Led Training for Remote Learners
The toll the pandemic has taken is incalculable. It has affected virtually every aspect of our lives and our businesses. That includes your organization’s L&D initiatives. It has become more and more important for businesses to find ways to deliver optimized learning experiences in a remote work situation. However, that can be challenging. Do you […]
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A Growth Mindset: Using an LMS to Flip Organization-Wide Thinking
Our mindsets determine how we perceive the world. A mindset of scarcity will grasp at things as though they have value in and of themselves. Getting and holding becomes the goal of life, rather than actual living. A fixed mindset focuses on what currently is to the exclusion of all else – change is frightening […]
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Engaging Learners in a Rapidly Changing World: Strengthening L&D from Home
It has historically been challenging to communicate the value and need for learning and development. That goes double for organizations with cultures that don’t value personal and professional development. However, the shift to remote work has ushered in new, unique challenges that all organizations must overcome. It’s a rapidly changing world and to engage learners, […]
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