Corporate eLearning

November 11, 2015

Audience Analysis: Human Resources Is Your Friend

If you don't have the time or money for formal audience analysis, there's a group of people in your company that can help: Human Resources. They know the people and they know the business.

by Ben Butina, Ph.D.

November 11, 2015

Why Do We Still Bulk Buy eLearning Courses?

The way that companies buy off the shelf eLearning is changing. A new generation of online operators like Learndirect’s eCourses offer, Course-Source.net, Lynda.com, and eLearning Marketplace (to name a few) are offering various viable alternatives to the traditional “site license” that’s dominated eLearning procurement so far. So what should we expect as the industry’s new online buying models go mainstream?

by Tony Small

November 10, 2015

How To Boost Your Workforce Performance With Interactive PDFs And eBooks

As heads of organizations and heads of Learning and Development departments, we are on a constant lookout for measures that can positively impact our employees' performance. There are many approaches that can be adopted to bring in performance gain. In this article, I will outline how to boost your workforce performance with interactive PDFs and eBooks (when used as Performance Support Tools or PSTs).

by Asha Pandey

November 10, 2015

Top 5 Tips To Motivate Employees

How do you motivate employees to complete online training? Here are 5 top tips from PulseLearning to help motivate employees to complete eLearning courses.

by Ashley Casey

November 7, 2015

American Training Companies Undervalue Technology As A Training Resource

When asked to individually assess the importance of technology in professional training, 56% of training companies stated that it was “not important”. An additional 26% of providers claimed that the use of technology was only marginally important to their success, solidifying the trend in our findings.

by Diandra Silva

November 6, 2015

A Visual Guide To Elective Vs Directive eLearning

There are still companies that are struggling to decide between mandatory (directive) and on-demand (elective) eLearning or a combination of both. Here is a visual guide to elective vs directive eLearning.

by John Eades

November 5, 2015

Evaluating Training Effectiveness And ROI

The price of training and all accompanying activities concerns all managers, and, in fact, should concern the Instructional Designers as well. What reason is there to conduct further trainings if the benefits of the ones already conducted have not been assessed? How to convince one’s manager that it is worthwhile (and profitable) to continue the training program and expand it to include other departments if you have no data to profit cost ratio to back you up? How, then, does one calculate training effectiveness?

by Michael Treser

November 4, 2015

3 Tips To Teach Your Sales Staff About Cold Calling

Even a mention of the words “cold calling” can numb your sales staff and elicit groans and complaints. If you have to conduct sales training in this area as a Human Resources professional, don't let them drag you into the age-old discussion of whether or not they can be effective. Instead, call cold calls “information calls” about your products or services and offer effective techniques on how they be done well.

by Roz Bahrami

November 3, 2015

The Real Learner

Real Learners are the elite among participants in the Real Learning Project. They work smarter and learn faster than their peers. It's a standard not everyone will reach.

by Jay Cross

November 2, 2015

4 Tips To Measure The Effectiveness Of An eLearning Course For Your Employees

Irrespective of how much time you spend on designing and developing trainings, they could not be considered effective until and unless you have decided on some proven techniques to determine the success of these trainings. In this article I will share 4 tips on measuring the effectiveness of an eLearning course and finding out whether your employees have really learnt what you wanted to teach them.

by Anand Timothy

November 1, 2015

3 Easy Ways To Convert Company Knowledge Into Online Training

Training managers often get frustrated of “re-inventing the wheel” and refashioning documents into relevant online courses. However, involving employees, partners, and resellers in rich, meaningful information circles benefits everyone in the company. eLearning tools help adopting knowledge from departments into useful, company-wide learning. Let us show you 3 easy ways on how to effectively convert offline company knowledge into interactive training.

by Annika Willers

October 29, 2015

Imparting Product Training Online: 5 Useful Media

A major factor that contributes to the success of a modern organization is the effective “synchronization” of its product training programs with the launch of its new products. As product life cycles get shorter and the time-to-market reduces considerably, a time lag between product releases and training could prove disastrous. In this article I will share 5 media which can be used to deliver highly effective product training online.

by Pushpa Siddhanti