Corporate eLearning

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.

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.

Have you ever started a new job and felt like you were just thrown into the deep end to either sink or swim? If so, you aren’t alone. Here, we’ll take a look at the problems facing those in the process of acclimating, before examining one of the best ways to help these newcomers: Balancing mentorship and eLearning.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Here is a simple way to know where you are exactly regarding your customer training.

The verdict is in and more proof is coming in to support it: The world of learning is shifting from a top-down paradigm (that of a mostly instructor-led/face-to-face and formal type of learning) to a not-only-more-informal and online one, but to a mostly digital, learner centered learning and employee-driven one.

CLO teams are once again pressed to prepare a workforce that extends beyond the employees: Moving from a structured, rigid personnel to a highly networked, fluidic workforce.

All training organizations need to focus on standing out from their competitors. Why? Because with more competition entering the marketplace, it’s now harder than ever to sell courses. The only way to remain competitive (without reducing your prices) is to find ways to differentiate your online training.