Learning Management & Talent Development Insights
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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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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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A Growth Mindset: Using an LMS to Flip Organization-Wide Thinking
Our mindsets determine how we perceive the world. A mindset of scarcity will grasp at things as though they have value in and of themselves. Getting and holding becomes the goal of life, rather than actual living. A fixed mindset focuses on what currently is to the exclusion of all else – change is frightening […]
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Engaging Learners in a Rapidly Changing World: Strengthening L&D from Home
It has historically been challenging to communicate the value and need for learning and development. That goes double for organizations with cultures that don’t value personal and professional development. However, the shift to remote work has ushered in new, unique challenges that all organizations must overcome. It’s a rapidly changing world and to engage learners, […]
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What Leaders Must Know to Lead Effectively in the New Normal
For learning and development to succeed, everyone must be on board with the strategy. In addition, buy-in must extend to the highest levels. Of course, the new normal could be complicating efforts to achieve that buy-in. Between the pandemic, political unrest, market instability, and other factors, leaders may be struggling to keep up. It can […]
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Social Learning: Your Guide to Implementation and Success
Humans are social creatures. We only thrive when we’re in groups. That applies to more than you might think, too. When it comes to learning and development in organizations, it is important to remember this as we craft our social learning strategy. Learning is a great example of this. How do toddlers learn? Through social […]
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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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10 Tips to Help You Create Continuous Learners
Continuous learning is critically important for today’s organizations. In the past, businesses could afford to hire based on an existing skillset alone. Today, that’s not the case. Increasing global competition, reduced access to important skills, and empowered professionals who are choosier about where they work have changed the situation. One of the most important things […]
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Learning and Development: 5 Tips for Setting L&D Goals
Learning and development has always been an important part of business success. Mandatory corporate training, professional continuing education, and mandatory upskilling all play into that. However, L&D can be so much more and it starts with setting the right L&D goals. With the right approach, you can use your learning and development platform to build […]
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Your Guide to Instituting Self-Development at Work
When we talk about L&D in the workplace, we generally think of things like mandatory corporate training, or professional upskilling. However, we cannot overlook the fact that human beings are singular organisms. There is no “work side” and “personal side” to us. We’re one individual. The immediate upshot of this realization is that self-development can […]
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Tips to Improve Employee Growth and Development
Few things are as critical to running a successful business today as encouraging employee growth and development. In the past, it wasn’t so essential. You hired an employee to perform a task, and they might stay in that position for the duration of their employment. Today, employees demand career progression opportunities, or they will seek […]
