Corporate eLearning

July 24, 2015

Why Online Collaboration Is The Solution To Your Learning And Development Team's Efficiency Problem

Are you an eLearning manager working with a talented but large or distributed team? Looking for ways to increase the efficiency of your team? Read on to learn why online collaboration might be the answer.

by Li Whybrow

July 23, 2015

Employee Online Training: Back To School For Corporate America

Back to school! Back to school! Bells are ringing. Birds are chirping. But inside the office, it’s just another Monday. People are indifferent. Now’s the time to relive the back-to-school nostalgia with annual employee online training. Below is some A+ advice for gearing up.

by Max Yoder

July 22, 2015

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet On Training Millennials

Employers today are full of anxiety over the growing population of Millennials in the workforce. Millennials make up almost half of the total workforce, with numbers still rising. At the same time, the generation of Baby Boomers is rapidly retiring. Business Insider reports that millions of these Baby Boomers have retired just in the last six years and 10,000 of them turn 65 every single day. With the Millennials coming in and the Baby Boomers going out, the climate of the workplace is shifting. While companies of all kinds want to appeal to Millennials and hire Millennials, they aren’t quite sure how to adapt to their differences. Read why training Millennials is a challenge worth taking.

by Laura Payne

July 22, 2015

Albert's Successful Training Story

Albert drove home from the board meeting feeling very pleased with himself. He had been praised by his chairman for the work he had put in since joining the firm two years ago, and had been given a complete endorsement for the five-year training plan that he had presented to the board that afternoon in Mumbai, India. As he drove home, he reflected on those two tumultuous years. Prior to joining his current company, he had worked for five years as production manager in a small company that manufactured plastic coat hangers in his native Gujarat, and had made a name for himself there. When he arrived here, the company was barely profitable, with high absenteeism, shoddy work practices, and little or no quality control. He immediately saw there were two problems; low morale and lack of training. Here is how his successful training method helped increase productivity.

by Heera Edwin

July 18, 2015

Creating eLearning Solutions For An Enterprise-Wide Global Audience: 4 Challenges And How To Overcome Them

Creating global eLearning solutions is full of challenges; in this article I will share some of the best practices in eLearning content development that a corporation can follow in order to avoid mistakes and create effective eLearning content for international learners.

by Heena Nanda

July 17, 2015

Get The Most Out Of Retail 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.

by Kate Pasterfield

July 16, 2015

Employee Engagement Versus Employee Energy

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.

by Stephanie Ivec

July 14, 2015

Positive Reinforcement In Online Training: What eLearning Professionals Should Know

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.

by Christopher Pappas

July 13, 2015

Learning And Performance Ecosystems: 5 Things Your Boss Wants To Know

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.

by Asha Pandey

July 13, 2015

Why Rich Media Matters For Learning And Development

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.

by Jayme Jenkins

July 12, 2015

Dear Jo: Hiring Temporary Learning Consultants

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.

by Jo Coulson

July 12, 2015

Why The Learning And Development Industry Should Think Differently To Improve Performance

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.

by Christopher Pappas