Corporate eLearning

Using survey results from Towards Maturity we lay out some actions retail businesses can take to really benefit from eLearning, from embracing new technologies to prioritizing your learning objectives. Here is how you can take advantage of retail eLearning.

I read a really interesting article recently from Chief Learning Officer (CLO) about minions. You know, those little yellow guys with the weird overalls and obnoxious, yet cute laughs. Even if you don’t have children, you can’t get away from advertisements featuring these minions. They are everywhere—on billboards, in television commercials, on t-shirts, and in CLO articles. So why is a respected learning organization like CLO writing about an animated children’s movie character? It’s all in the name of engagement.

Positive reinforcement in online training can not only increase an employee’s belief in their own capabilities to perform work tasks successfully, but also it can enhance their learning motivation and engagement. In this article, I’ll share 4 benefits of using positive reinforcement in online training, as well as 5 tips on how to use it more effectively.

Today, Learning and Development professionals have an uphill task of providing effective training that would enable employees not only “learn” but “apply learning on the job”. With global economic volatility, budget cuts are a reality and they are expected to continuously demonstrate a high ROI on the training investment.

Sometimes, when the budget gets tight, one of the places Learning and Development professionals think they can cut is graphic design. But the truth is rich media makes a big difference to the success of your corporate training programs, and you should care about how your programs look because they impact effectiveness.

When it comes to hiring temporary Learning and Development consultants, what considerations should I keep in mind? Industry veteran Jo Coulson tackles a reader question with help from Rodrigo Salazar, Manager of Talent Solutions at SweetRush.

Hands up if you know what is working in your learning departments and why. Do you make assumptions about what’s working in your organization, or do you gather evidence and use it to understand why learning initiatives succeed or fail? In this article I will share why the Learning & Development industry should think differently in terms of how we are using evidence in order to improve performance.

A positive emotional response to learning aids the retention of information to people's long-term memory banks for recall and use in the future. In this article I will explain how emotional learning can not only boost memory retention, but also enhance the virtual training experience.

Check out these tips from leaders in top learning organizations and find out what kind of benefits and impacts they are having on the business, as seen through the eyes of Towards Maturity's in-depth research program.

In this article, through a series of questions, I will provide answers on what Performance Support Tools (PSTs) are and why they must be an integral part of your organization’s learning strategy. I will also share my insights on how they help learners and how they can help address a key challenge that Learning and Development professionals face in terms of increasing knowledge recall, its retention, and application.

In some cases, there may be no clear single objective to the eLearning program. This is especially true in the case of enterprise platforms that cater to a wide variety of users. In this article I will share 4 ways in which you can design an enterprise eLearning program for an audience with unique objectives.

Companies embrace online learning as a successful means of heightening the productivity of their employees. In this article I will share 4 ways in which online training increases productivity.