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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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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Sighting the Target: Employee Development Best Practices
What is the key to running a successful organization? The right product? Great marketing? A thorough understanding of your competitors? Those are important, certainly, but they are not the most critical thing. That title goes to your employees. Without human talent, your organization does not exist. It’s as simple as that. When seen in this […]
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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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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 […]
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Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity: More Than Mandatory Corporate Training
Chances are good that when you think about concepts like “inclusion”, “diversity”, and “equity” in the workplace, you immediately go to mandatory corporate training. That’s natural. It’s been hammered into us for decades at this point. However, those concepts need to be more than just text on a computer screen. They need to be more […]
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4 Tips to Help Foster a Culture of Learning and Growth
What’s your company culture like? Is it still growing and evolving? Or has it started to stagnate? Does your company have a culture of learning? Chances are good that you’re struggling with some degree of “culture fade”. It happens, even to the strongest of companies. However, that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing you can do […]
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The Secret to Creating a Company Culture That Embraces Learning
It wasn’t that long ago that the phrase “corporate culture” wasn’t used. However, the concept actually dates back to the early 1950s. Today, it has become a serious consideration as more and more business owners, CEOs, and decision-makers realize just how critical the right culture is to an organization’s success, ability to compete, and overall […]
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Guarantee You are in Compliance with California Mandated Sexual Harassment Training
It does not matter where your company is located, or even if it is spread out over several different states; there are now harassment-prevention rules that must be followed. While you might say that your state or the state in which the company is headquartered has no specific harassment prevention policies, you are responsible for […]
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Shifting to a Performance Culture: Why Culture Should Be Part of Performance Management
More and more, companies are noticing the importance of a solid culture in the workplace. Employees no longer tolerate difficult or uncomfortable working environments. People are leaving jobs where they don’t feel appreciated, and it is getting to the point that companies need to find a new way to ensure that their culture is on […]
