Learning Management & Talent Development Insights
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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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Skill Gap Identification: The Key to Strategic Employee Development
What is the single greatest hurdle your organization faces? For most, it is the prospect of undiscovered skill gaps within the workforce. Without the right talent with the required skills, it becomes impossible to move forward. While some organizations don’t take this seriously employee skill gap development can a powerful catalyst to propel your organization […]
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Are You Missing a Critical Part of Your L&D Strategy? Understanding Strengths Discovery
Your learning and development (L&D) strategy is critical. It speaks to the organization’s ability to compete by developing in-house talent. It addresses crucial skill gaps and helps ensure improved employee retention over their lifecycle. However, despite that importance, there is a good chance your strategy is missing a key component: strengths discovery. It is a […]
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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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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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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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Want to Improve Employee Engagement? Help Employees Develop Crucial Soft Skills
Employee engagement is the unicorn every organization is chasing today. Coupled with the ongoing complications from COVID-19, it leads to a complicated situation. Thankfully, there are proven ways that you can use a learning management system to drive engagement. One of those is to help your employees develop crucial soft skills. What Are “Soft” Skills? […]
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Workplace Resilience: A Key Factor for L&D Initiatives
When you think about characteristics and qualities vital for success in the workplace, what comes to mind? Chances are good you think of having the necessary hard skills, or perhaps it’s doggedness that speaks to you. While employees need a host of different skills and aptitudes to thrive in today’s work world, resilience is perhaps […]
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How to Create a Personal Development Plan
Learning and development (L&D) initiatives are critical to overall business success. However, all too often, we forget that L&D should actually focus on the learners rather than on preferred business outcomes. Yes, you need to teach X so the business can achieve Y, but your learners are the reason, the motive power within the organization, […]
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Turning In-Person Training into Virtual Training: A Guide for L&D Teams
Despite the lingering effects of the novel coronavirus, training and development must go on. Many organizations initially paused those efforts at the onset of the pandemic, but as the new paradigm has evolved, it becomes apparent that they must be restarted. Remote work is the new normal, and we must find ways to change and […]
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Virtual Panels: Ensuring Effective Delivery and Engagement
The right learning management system (LMS) will help ensure that your learners are engaged and supported in their training and development journey. However, when it comes to virtual panels, introducing the human element can mean ambiguity – will it turn out dull and lifeless? Will your learners mentally check out during the panel? Will they […]
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Your Guide to Converting Instructor-Led Training for Remote Learners
The toll the pandemic has taken is incalculable. It has affected virtually every aspect of our lives and our businesses. That includes your organization’s L&D initiatives. We know with the COVID pandemic, in-person instructor-led training was the first casualty. However many organizations have been able to migrate their ILT training and adapted it for remote […]
