Learning Management & Talent Development Insights
Latest trends, ideas and reports in the world of talent development, learning management and edtech
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How Does Training Affect Company Culture?
In prior articles, you might remember us mentioning the term “company culture.” This term is defined as the overall atmosphere, environment, and attitude of a company in regard to employee behavior. The company culture holds a certain standard that employees are expected to adhere to. A company’s culture plays a significant role in the type […]
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How to Make the Most of a Free LMS Trial
Free trials are always a beneficial selling point when it comes to choosing a learning management system. But most organizations don’t make the most of their free trials, and at the end of the day, they’re left with questions and still feeling unsure about a potential purchasing decision. Free LMS trials may seem like a […]
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How Training Can Improve Customer Satisfaction
In our contemporary world, opinions are everywhere. In the age of the internet, it’s all too easy to broadcast an opinion whenever you want to. This is something that any organization that deals with customer satisfaction has had to adapt to. Why? Because poor opinions about your organization cropping up online can be detrimental to […]
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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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L&D Content: How to Drive Engagement with Learning and Development
Engagement – it’s the holy grail of business growth and development. High engagement levels drive improved performance, enable a better ability to compete, and help create a positive corporate culture. Low engagement levels, on the other hand, can destroy productivity, lead to high turnover and increased churn, and drive talent away, reducing your ability to […]
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Understanding the ADDIE Training Model and Its Implications for Your Organization
The world of learning and development is full of acronyms and jargon. One term that you might have heard yet not fully understood is ADDIE. This training model offers numerous benefits and advantages, but you must understand what it is, how it works, and how to implement it to realize those benefits within your organization. […]
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The Impact of Self-Directed Learning on Employee Engagement: Building a Better Organization
Most organizations take a similar stance to learning and development. That is, employees follow a structured path forward, marked by pre-defined milestones. It seems like a logical thing to do, and it ostensibly makes it easier to track progress for in-house and compliance needs. For many organizations, self-directed learning is the way to go as […]
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How Coaches Can Help Support Learning and Development Success
“Coaching” in the business realm has traditionally been synonymous with course correction and employee performance reviews. There has been a punitive note to the word, a connection with the idea that coaching is only necessary when performance must be improved. If true turnaround is desired in employee performance, managers as coaches However, when the bigger […]
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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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Workplace Rituals That Boost Engagement and Learning
The word “ritual” might bring to mind ancient rites of passage. Alternatively, it might make you think about football teams dumping coolers filled with water or Gatorade over their coach’s head. However you slice it, human beings need rituals – they’re traditions that help create a sense of oneness, of familiarity, of community. Rituals can […]
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Tips for Strengths-Based Development within Your Organization
In the traditional organization, employees are coached based on their weaknesses. For instance, if someone excels while working solo, but struggles in a team-based environment, the coach would tell them they need to build their soft skills, like teamwork. While that’s not untrue, the method fails when it comes to building successful teams. A strengths-based […]
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Get Your Team Excited about Learning
Let’s be honest for a moment. Not many of your employees look forward to sitting down in front of a workstation in HR and completing their corporate training. It’s ok – it is what it is. We also know that team learning can provide a powerful spark of innovation and self-sufficiency for many team members […]
