Learning Management & Talent Development Insights
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How to Define Learner Personas and Goals When Creating a Training Plan
To create a successful learning and development strategy, you must put the learner first. While that seems like common sense, many HR departments and L&D developers fail to do so. Instead of prioritizing learner needs, they prioritize organization goals. Start with creating learner personas to help you focus your L&D initiatives. That’s understandable, at least […]
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Content Chunking: Tips to Accelerate Learner Success
When you think about learner success, what comes to mind first? Chances are good it’s something like completion rate, information retention, or the ability to apply lessons learned during training to an employee’s regular duties. All of those are correct. However, the challenge lies in achieving those optimum outcomes. Many L&D initiatives struggle when it […]
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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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How to Implement Content Curation in Your L&D Strategy
How much time, effort, and money go into creating your L&D materials? If yours is like most organizations, the answer is, “a lot”. It can be a significant investment, and it can also be quite challenging. After all, your team must balance content creation with other responsibilities, and there is a lot required to create […]
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Important Things to Include in Your Customer Service eLearning Material
Customer service is more critical than ever before. And, with the increasing competition in all industries and verticals, it will only grow as we move into the rest of the 21st century. Preparing your team for this demand can be challenging, but eLearning can help. With a modern learning management system (LMS), it becomes possible […]
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Innovation and Creativity Zones and Their Impact on Your L&D Efforts
“Innovation” – it’s one of today’s hottest buzzwords. However, it’s more than that. It represents the goal to which so many organizations aspire, and yet somehow fall short. Often, a lack of innovative capability stems not from missing in-house talent, but from the wrong culture. It also comes from not supporting employees through the right […]
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Learning through Volunteering: Going beyond the LMS
Employee development requires an intentional strategy and the right tools. A modern, cloud-based LMS will be central to your success. However, there are times that you might need to go beyond your learning management system to deliver meaningful, timely development options to your employees. One such example is learning through volunteering. What Is Learning through […]
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Looking to Boost Employee Engagement? Use Your LMS
Employee engagement is vital, but it can be challenging to raise. When we talk about it, much of the discussion focuses on things like wellness programs, regular performance-focused check-ins, and one-on-ones, or changing your company’s culture. Those are important steps, certainly. However, you may be overlooking one of the most critical weapons in your arsenal […]
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How to Become a Growth Organization
There is a lot of discussion today surrounding employee strengths and weaknesses. However, we need to turn our attention to the organization’s strengths and weaknesses, as well. The wrong structures and processes in place can dampen growth and drive away needed human talent, resulting in stagnation, or even regression. So, how does an organization become […]
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How to Analyze Your Company’s Culture: The Quest for Better L&D
We’ve talked a lot on this blog about the importance of developing a culture that values learning and innovation. We’ve also discussed some of the negative consequences, both to L&D and to the company as a whole, that stem from having the wrong corporate culture. However, what we really haven’t addressed in any real depth […]
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Remote Worker L&D: A Quick Guide to Supporting Learner Success
Learning and development (L&D) is a vital consideration for many of today’s organizations. L&D goes so much deeper than mandatory corporate training or required ongoing education for licensed professionals. L&D delivers the ability to upskill, to close skills gaps, and for your employees to chart a path toward a more rewarding career within the organization. […]
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5 Tips to Increase Employee Engagement through Learning and Development
Employee engagement is one of the most critical metrics for managers to consider. It affects everything from performance to retention, and everything in between. Increasing engagement can bolster profitability, success, and more. Of course, increasing engagement (free white paper) can be incredibly challenging. One tool at your disposal that you might not have thought about […]
