Learning Management & Talent Development Insights
For 20 years, eLeaP® has helped organizations achieve excellence through learning, performance, & quality.
-
Lessons from the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Lawsuit
In March, people around the world watched as Ellen Pao’s lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers unfolded in a California courtroom. The details of the case are now widely known, even by people outside the business and high-tech sectors. Pao, now interim chief executive officer of Reddit, alleged that she experienced gender discrimination at […]
-
Is Worker Retention Really a Problem?
Since the late 1950s, Paul Schweitzer of Gramercy Typewriter Co. in New York City has been fixing typewriters. Of course, his company has changed over the years—today, he has few typewriters to fix. Indeed, many of the typewriters he does fix are found on movie sets staged to recreate what offices once looked like rather […]
-
Instructional Design: Learning from Social Media
Learning is no longer assumed to be a discrete experience that can only take place in a classroom or at a training center. Most students and workers now accept the fact that learning is for life and further accept that learning is no longer location bound. At the same time, social media platforms continue to […]
-
The Ins and Outs of Internship Programs
Interning is a major step in the career path of many young people. Indeed, some young people even choose a college or university in a large urban center, like Chicago, New York or Los Angeles, in order to increase their internship opportunities. While some internships can be used for college credit and others provide a […]
-
Creating a Culture of Assessment for Creative Workers
While they may not recognize it, most educators and trainers are constantly assessing the impact of their course delivery. This may take place in a conversation with a colleague over coffee after teaching a class or facilitating a workshop. This may take place when they ask students or workshop participants for feedback using informal methods […]
-
Recruiting and Training Transit Workers in the 21st Century
While some transit jobs, such as train operators, continue to go into decline, the demand for bus, rapid rail and subway operators, especially in urban areas, continues to rise. The growing need for urban transit workers is driven by two factors. First more people are moving back into city centers and as a result, they […]
-
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 […]
-
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 […]
-
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, […]
-
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.
-
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 […]
-
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. […]
Search articles by...
Find your way around our blog by searching using a keyword or a group of keywords or by choosing a tag.