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Training and development simply have an outsized impact on business bottom-line. Skimp on training and development and pay the ultimate price. Invest in training and development and reap the benefits.
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What You Need to Know about Training Needs Analysis: Connecting the Needs of Learners and Businesses
In the wider discussion surrounding learning and development, there’s a lot of focus on the business’s needs and goals. That’s natural – the organization is at the center of the process. Or is it? A Training needs analysis is to look for company’s overall goals and milestones before making efforts on areas of training that […]
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Understanding Common Mistakes When Developing Custom Training
Pre-made learning content can be an invaluable asset. It allows you to get your L&D efforts off the ground quickly, without the time and expense involved with creating custom training. However, despite that value, “boxed” content is only good up to a point. Eventually, you will need to create custom content for your learners. When […]
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Build a Stronger Brand with Training for External Stakeholders
Today, most organizations have in-house learning and development efforts. The vast majority of leaders understand the need for L&D and see the value of training their employees and managers. However, no business exists without the help of others outside the organization. Manufacturers work with suppliers and distributors, as well as retailers. Software developers work with […]
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Custom Training: Can It Solve Your L&D Challenges?
Struggling to meet L&D goals? You are certainly not alone. Many organizations find achieving meaningful progress toward important learning and development-related milestones challenging. However, there is a solution – custom training. By allowing your learners to enjoy a degree of flexibility, it becomes possible to overcome those hurdles and accelerate your L&D initiative’s success. Of […]
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How to Measure the Success of Your Training Initiatives
The only yardstick by which to measure the value of L&D is the success of your learners. Simply put, nothing else matters. If your learners are not able to retain the information being taught, or they are unable to apply those lessons in the real world, then your system is broken. The challenge here is […]
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Training and Development: Tips to Develop Remote Teams
With the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on organizations large and small, many are experiencing some pretty interesting challenges. Performance management has become more difficult, for instance, but so has the flip-side of the coin – learning and development. Given how critical it is to develop your teams and help employees become better both professionally and […]
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Building Organization-Wide Success by Upskilling Your Teams
It’s a tough competitive world for companies and organizations in need of new talent. Fresh talent is hard to come by. With increasing levels of competition for talented new hires, you could be facing a serious shortage of potential recruits. However, there may be a simpler solution than you realize. While you should keep casting […]
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How to Manage an Organization-Wide Training Program
Running a successful organization-wide training program can be challenging. However, it’s vital. It has never been more important for businesses and other organizations to ensure that their employees are engaged in training. It helps foster business success, but it is also critical for the professional and personal development of your employees or team members. It […]
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The Value of Digital Training for Employees
Using a learning management system is an excellent way to provide digital skills training to employees, and fill digital gaps that may exist within an organization. Below, we highlight some of the reasons the digital skills training is so essential in any organization, as well as how to use a learning management system to deliver […]
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Small Business Trends and Priorities in 2018
Small Business Trends and Priorities in 2018 2018 is already in full swing, and it’s shaping up to be an interesting year for small businesses. There are certain trends at the local, federal and even the international level influencing small businesses. The economy as a whole is on an upswing, and it’s breathing new life […]
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Comparing a Training Culture with a Learning Culture and Which Is Best for Business
Are there really any differences between an organization with a training culture versus one with a learning culture? While these two things might sound interchangeable, they’re not. We’ll begin by exploring training cultures and learning cultures independently of one another, and then make some comparisons to help businesses understand which approach is most advantageous. The […]
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Lead the Way to Great Managers by Training them to Delegate
As a supervisor or manager, it is difficult to be a master of all trades. It is more likely that you and each individual employee has expertise they can bring to the table. A great leader is one that can delegate duties so that the manager can focus on the portion of their job that […]
