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How to Improve Poor Employee Learning Retention
Conventional training methods simply don’t work as efficiently as possible. There’s a reason why there have been so many technological advances in the learning world. Traditional means of learning simply aren’t effective in ensuring learners can actually retain and recall knowledge. Investing money in a fancy learning management system and providing state-of-the-art, engaging content to […]
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How to Integrate Learning into Your Employees’ Work Flow
Training is often undergone in larger, longer modules that take a while to complete. Your employees will often be asked to sit down and complete entire chunks of training at once. But how do you ensure that training continues little by little, day by day? Integrating learning into the work that your employees do daily […]
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How to Account for Employee Learning Differences
It’s no secret, people all learn differently. Anyone who has ever had to teach will tell you that no single learning style suits all learners. While some may favor similar types of teaching and learning strategies, no two employees will learn the exact same way. Due to this, the training strategies that you implement within […]
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Empowering Employees with Learning: How Self-Assessed Learning Goals Fuel Success
Learning and development (L&D) is the other side of the performance management coin. Without both, employees are stuck. Growth and improvement become impossible. Self-assessment learning goals are a critical piece to standing up highly focused and productive teams. To develop an efficient, engaged team, though, you need to empower your employees. There are a myriad […]
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Helping Your Employees Uncover Their Inner Genius
When we think of learning management, many of us automatically go to mandatory corporate training, or perhaps professional CE. That’s natural, but there’s so much more to learning management and helping your employees become their very best selves. One of the most crucial considerations for business owners, execs, and decision-makers is whether or not you’re […]
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How to Guide Your Employees Through the Onboarding Journey
The first step to improving your onboarding training is to look at it like a journey, not a race. There are certain phases and points that will be reached, and at those points, new training or information will need to be provided. It will be your duty to guide them through the entire process and […]
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The Pitfalls of Buffet-Style Onboarding Processes
Onboarding is a vast, complicated process that has many moving parts. Too often, companies make the mistake of showing all of those parts to new hires at once, which tends to get a bit overwhelming. It might seem like you’re showing off all these great things when you put out the full platter of your […]
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How to Create Painless OnBoarding Employee Training
The first 90 days of a new employee’s time at an organization can either be beneficial or detrimental. Those three months provide signs into whether the employer will work out, whether the employee will stay at that employer, or whether that employee will be productive. How do you know? Will the employee just come out […]
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How to Get Talented People to Focus on Their Strengths
Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Our weaknesses, for some reason, outshine our strengths like a beam of light. We all become focused on our shortcomings, comparing other’s strengths to our weaknesses. Maybe that’s why we try to improve our weaknesses through self-help books, podcasts, or self-improvement classes. But what about our talents? While we’re focusing […]
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Creating a Learning Organization: How to Foster a Learning Culture
In our previous article, we established why workplace culture is important, explained how fostering a learning culture benefits your company, and provided several different tools you can use to conduct a learning culture assessment in your organization. Now, it’s time to take a closer look at specific actions you can take to transform your company […]
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Why Summer is a Great Time to Scale Up Online Training
Training should happen year round, but there is no question that during the summer months, many workplaces shift into low gear and this can open up additional bandwidth to scale up online training. With staff out on vacation and in many industries, lower customer demand, it is often the case that employees have just a […]
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eLearning TrendWatch: Badges
You know how important gamification has become in corporate training and eLearning, but are leveraging as many of its aspects as possible for better learning outcomes and success? One aspect that often gets overlooked is how you reward progress. Many learning professionals have realized how important it is to work a competitive element into the […]
