Corporate eLearning

February 4, 2015

Why Soft Skills Are Key To EVERYONE’s Employability And Career Progression

The message about ‘soft skills’ has been garnering a lot of support in the press: highly qualified graduates with a string of A*s but who are uncomfortable in face-to-face meetings and making calls. Business is all about building relationships and those relationships just don’t develop via email – people need to go out there and talk to other people and they need soft skills to do it. Mark Rose explains how it can be done.

by Mark Rose

January 31, 2015

Savvy Transition: An Online Program To Help Leaders Excel In Their Roles

Emergent, a leader in business transformation and strategic change management services to the Fortune 500, introduces a new online leader transition program called Savvy Transition.

by Jesse Jacoby

January 27, 2015

Great Onboarding eLearning: Our Top 20

What are the characteristics of an a great onboarding program? In this post I discuss my top 20 and look at how eLearning can be blended with traditional delivery to help you design and deliver a course that can help your new starters reach their potential faster and the organization reach its goals smarter.

by Li Whybrow

January 23, 2015

5 Keys Steps To Adopting Technology Enabled Training

Training is an imperative part of any organization; therefore it is wise to find an efficient deployment method that caters to the needs of the learner and the company. Find below the step-by-step points in adopting technology enabled training into your organization.

by Nitika Anand

January 21, 2015

The Anatomy Of Great Onboarding eLearning

Onboarding is the first impression your company makes on a new employee and can have a huge impact on staff retention. With such high stakes - it is important to get it right. In this post I look at the most important aspects of onboarding and share our 4 part framework for creating great onboarding elearning.

by Steve Penfold

January 14, 2015

Top 5 Benefits Of Using eLearning Tools For Staff Training

As the percentage of the tech-savvy millennials rises in the workforce, the reliance on elearning tools should increase commensurately. However, this is not the only reason why elearning tools are important for staff training. Here are a few serious advantages that elearning tools bring to workforce training.

by Kumar Venkatesiah

January 12, 2015

Top 10 eLearning Conferences For Chief Learning Officers in 2015

Every year the eLearning conference scene opens and closes with a bang. ATD Tech Knowledge starts the year off right in January, and DevLearn closes the year with grandeur. Sometimes it is hard to know which eLearning conferences you should attend. Here is a list of eLearning Conferences for the savvy Chief Learning Officers (CLO) to attend or send eLearning developers and instructional designers to.

by Curtis J. Morley

January 10, 2015

The Top 7 eLearning Benefits For Busy Adult Learners

Busy work schedules, hectic personal lives, and a lengthy list of responsibilities on both fronts, may prevent adult learners from continuing their education. At least, this used to be the case. Today, thanks to eLearning, it is possible for adult learners to further their education and develop necessary skill sets online. In this article, I'll highlight just a few of the many benefits of eLearning for busy adult learners who are always on the run.

by Christopher Pappas

December 31, 2014

How The Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Got It’s Name

Find out how the Chief Learning Officer came to be. This blog reveals the story behind the planet's first Chief Learning Officer and how he became CLO.

by Curtis J. Morley

December 27, 2014

Why Corporate Brand Books Are Not Good For eLearning

Are corporate brand books suitable for e-learning course design? When everyday we read about importance of color for a course do we follow right guidelines?

by Elena Tikhomirova

December 26, 2014

3 Major Training Management Failures

There are many ways that a business can go about creating a bad training experience. A survey conducted a few years back revealed that only 20% of business leaders were happy with their business’s Learning and Development function. Clearly, there is a lot of room for improvement in this area, but what training management practices should be avoided to ensure positive outcomes?

by Jason Silberman

December 22, 2014

Learners Think Training Is A Burden - 8 Tips to Change This!

I am sorry to bring the bad news, but unless you are creating commercial courses that people buy on their own, there is a big possibility your precious learners think that training is a burden. You might be putting your heart and soul into a product for people who actually wish training would disappear from their to-do list, and think that training is a useless waste of their time, time that they can use for other, more productive activities (like for example meeting this month’s target). I know it is unfair and harsh, but can you really blame them?

by Nahla Anwer Aly