Learning Management & Talent Development Insights
Latest trends, ideas and reports in the world of talent development, learning management and edtech
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Cross-Training – Not Just for Athletes
Anyone who runs on a regular basis is likely already familiar with the benefits of cross-training. In running, cross-training is promoted as a way to improve over all fitness and strength, increase power, add flexibility, and even increase one’s motivation. Cross-training recognizes that over indulging in a single activity (in this case, running) is never […]
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Company Sponsored Schools: Training Future Workers
Since the 1970s, the demand for skilled technical workers has increased across sectors. In 1970, only 25% of jobs required postsecondary training. Today, an estimated 70% of jobs require additional training. The demand for skilled workers is particularly dire in STEM professions. Unfortunately, high-tech and manufacturing companies often continue to find college and university graduates […]
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The Virtual Worlds of Critical Care Physician Training
Critical care medicine is arguably medicine’s most high-stress area of practice and an area in which practitioners must be able to work effectively as members of a team. Due to the high stakes and unpredictable nature of critical care medicine, however, bringing trainees into real life situations is not always desirable or even possible. Fortunately, […]
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Gamification, 3D Printing and Wearables in Education
There is nothing new about education evolving to accommodate new information mediums and platform. Despite the initial resistance from a few skeptics, philosophers in ancient Greece quickly recognized that writing was a technology that would ultimately serve rather than undermine their educational mandates.
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Media Production Part 1: eLearning Leaders
There’s really no way around it: Being an eLearning professional in the 21st century means at least knowing a good deal about media production. Why? Because corporate learning resources need to be available to employees not only when they need it, but also in the most conducive media format to the situation at hand. In […]
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Bringing the Right Soft Skills into eLearning’s Focus
In previous articles such as eLearning and Soft Skills: What Went Wrong? and New Directions in eLearning Soft Skills, I covered the historical challenges encountered in trying to figure out how to teach soft skills in the eLearning environment, and how such new approaches emphasizing speed, thin-slicing, and coaching orientation are overcoming those historical challenges. […]
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Conducting an eLearning Tech Audit
Getting all the different technologies working together seamlessly to support your eLearning efforts can feel like a daunting task, but it’s far too important to let it slip off your radar screen. When things don’t work well, it causes stress, anxiety, unnecessary complications, and inefficiency. That’s why a periodic eLearning Tech Audit should be on […]
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When Should eLearning Happen?
If you want your eLearning efforts to really pay off with big impacts, employees need to be able to engage it when they’re at their most focused and productive. Obviously, that can’t always happen because we also want employees to devote their most productive times to the important work that needs to be done in […]
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eLearning’s Hang-Ups
If you’re a regular reader of my articles, then you know how often I point out that although eLearning is one of the hottest topics out there, it’s utilization rate still remains surprisingly low. You’d think that in today’s digital era that more than 27% of instruction and training delivered to employees would be all […]
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Is Emotional Intelligence Really Valued? The Case of Women Leaders
While women continue to gain ground in leadership positions across sectors from politics to business, in reality, women still occupy far fewer leadership positions than men in countries around the world. In 2014, for example, women occupied only 4.6% of Fortune 500 CEO positions. Research on the subject of gender and leadership consistently shows that […]
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De-escalating Anger in the Workplace
Most contemporary workplaces—even those where employees are free to dress down and skateboard around the office—are high stress and complex environments. As a result, no matter how “chill” the work environment may be, people are bound to lose their cool from time and time. Anger may arise when a worker doesn’t feel like their ideas […]
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Tools for Collaborative eLearning
A few articles back I wrote about The Government’s Take on eLearning Effectiveness, and one aspect that clearly boosted eLearning’s effectiveness was collaboration. In this article I want to highlight a sampling of the many tools that you can use to inject plenty of collaboration into your eLearning programs.
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