Corporate eLearning

March 15, 2016

Training Evaluation: Measuring What Matters

Is your training evaluation guided by what matters, or by what's easy to measure? In this article, you'll learn about some of the shortcomings of typical training evaluation forms and learn mistakes to avoid.

by Ben Butina, Ph.D.

March 15, 2016

Business Simulations: What Are The Benefits?

It is important to have in mind that 80% of acquired knowledge fades away if it is not applied in practice, which means there is a real risk of wasting 80% of learning and training expenses. Is there a way to ensure that the solution is the use of business simulations?

by Anton Makarevich

March 12, 2016

3D Printing Keys Applied To Training: Interview

This article is an interview with Marina Portabella, training responsible of 3D printing courses.

by Leticia Lafuente López

March 11, 2016

Boomerang Employees: Would You Welcome Them?

Although many companies have strict policies against re-hiring employees who left, a growing number of employers are expressing a change of heart and letting these workers, boomerang employees, back into the fold.

by Roz Bahrami

March 9, 2016

7 Online Training Complaints And How To Avoid Them

Unfortunately, a vast majority of employees dread online training. You may even catch the occasional eye roll, sigh, or look of utter terror when corporate learners find out that an online training session is on the horizon. The good news is that there are ways to remedy the most common 7 online training complaints, which you'll soon discover in this article.

by Christopher Pappas

March 7, 2016

KCA: A Simplified Training Strategy For Learning And Development

Do you have a small training team? Is that team comprised of former Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) without adult learning background? How can you get them to apply adult learning concepts without having any formal education in the subject? Knowledge, Context and Application (KCA) is a simplified training strategy for Learning and Development that helps develop Subject Matter Experts into effective trainers.

by Alexander Salas, CPLP

March 5, 2016

6 Tips To Conduct A Successful Skills Assessment For Your Corporate Audience

What skills do your employees really use on a daily basis? What abilities are they lacking, and where do their strengths lie? In this article, I will share 6 tips on how to successfully conduct a skills assessment that can benefit both your corporate learners and your organization.

by Christopher Pappas

March 3, 2016

Using Elements Of Improv Theater For Virtual Onboarding: An Interesting And Effective Learning Tool

Face-to-face meetings, meeting in time-displaced blended settings like blogs, or meeting in virtual real-time like through video chat, or immersive 3D environments, all have their advantages and challenges. In virtual environments the non-verbal elements are limited. Whenever you don’t meet in real person, the lack of personal face-to-face communication is a gap that has to be overcome in all other virtual variations of get-togethers. So, organizations are now facing new challenges to virtual onboarding where it is essential to emphasize the interpersonal dynamics of virtual collaboration and establish practices for team building. This can be achieved by adopting some elements from Improv Theater.

by Heena Nanda

March 2, 2016

Corporate Learning And The New Knowledge Economy

Corporate learning is changing at a rapid pace making it more important than ever to be across all of the latest tools of new knowledge economy.

by Scott Cooper

March 2, 2016

Sales Training: Why Your Sales Staff Needs Continual Training

If your Human Resources department operates like most others, sales training is entirely focused on training your staff to sell your company's products or services.

by Roz Bahrami

March 1, 2016

How To Reduce Scrap Learning In Training: Take It From Librarians, We Know Scrap When We See It

When it comes to our collections, great public librarians are like great Instructional Designers: We keep them current, relevant, appealing, and responsive to our communities. Keeping our collections useful and looking good means we have to get rid of things though. That’s right: Public libraries throw books away. Here is how to reduce scrap learning in your training.

by Emily Schaber

February 27, 2016

6 Tips To Develop Competency-Based Online Training

Increasing proficiency and productivity is the primary goal of a competency-based online training initiative. But how can you integrate this approach into your online training strategy without completing overhauling your current online training program? In this article, I'll highlight 6 tips to develop a competency-based online training course.

by Christopher Pappas