Corporate eLearning

Compliance courses are often driven by the corporate “compliance mandate” and tend to miss the ingredients for learners to relate to them, internalize the information, and apply it. As I see it, given the significance of the compliance mandate, there should be a higher focus on using approaches that appeal to the learners, impart learning that will stick, and finally ensure that this learning indeed gets applied at work.

As many companies now have a global footprint, training needs have become much more diverse. Effectively maintaining the impact of your training initiative is critical and a bit more complicated when more than one language is involved. As a developer, you are tasked with developing effective training in your source language. The challenge can be taking that across a bigger gamut of languages that you may not read, speak, or write. This is where localization comes in to play.

Your company culture is something special. Whether you actively try to customize it or just let it happen, it’s there to stay. In what shape or form is up to you and your entire team. It’s both the little and the big things. It’s the way you say hello/high five/fistbump every morning, but also the manner in which you deal with serious issues. It’s how your employees feel about going to work every day, and how they fit into the bigger picture. Not only as an ingredient for success, but also as a person that truly cares about the work he or she does.

Keen to learn soft skills? Here is how can you use eLearning for soft skills training and enhance your top soft skills in no time.

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.

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?

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).

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

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.

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.

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?

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.