Corporate eLearning

Theme-based Learning can be utilized to create a common thread of familiarity for all learners and build strong connections with the topics being taught. Theme based learning is a common approach in the K12 scenario – but the benefits for corporate training are also manifold. A theme is the existence of common ideas and topics across multiple contexts. By building relationships between topics, themes provide a common ground for understanding multiple topics in detail. This approach works very well when catering to a diverse learner group or learners who are new to the idea of technology-aided learning.

As research has already found, a culture of learning brought about by regular and relevant training can improve performance significantly. However, it can also attract and retain talent, integrate new and effective forms of technology as well as streamline and modernize internal operations.

In this article, I'll discuss how to effectively analyze your company's online training needs, so that you can create an online training and development strategy that allows your organization to reap the many rewards that online training has to offer.

When you hear the term "employee training," what image immediately jumps to mind? A group of workers dozing off in a board room? An employee isolated at a computer workstation?

Is Training actually training or is it something more? Today's workplace is ever evolving, morphing and adjusting to new technologies, analysis and competition! A vast majority of companies seek to better their positioning through customer engagement models which seek to ground themselves in way which better embrace customers.

Continuing with the second installment of Dear Jo, industry veteran Jo Coulson answers your corporate training and performance improvement questions! In Part Two of “I’ve Just Been Handed the Training Department!”, Jo’s reader has taken over the training department but has minimal background in learning and development. How much training industry knowledge does she need, and how can she get it?

In this article, I will outline some of the innovative approaches we have adopted to create “sticky learning experiences” in Compliance courses.

Organizations care about training. Period. With so much effort devoted to training, the real question becomes evident: Did anyone really learn?

In this part of my series on how to save the Learning and Development industry from certain doom, I explain why talent training and learning need to come together to create a culture in which the correct things are taught to the correct individuals. I offer nine ways to achieve this, and also explain the importance of informal learning in achieving all-round business success.

Are you still administering trainings on stand-alone Power Points? Are you seriously developing another CD of training with your preferred e-learning consultant? The question isn’t “why is it necessary to move your corporate training online”, rather, “why haven’t you done it yet?”

In this article, part one of my series on saving the UK Learning and Development industry from certain doom, I examine how the L&D industry is struggling to keep up with times and highlight what needs to be done to meet demands and expectations. This is a brutal, no-holds-barred assessment of L&D, taken from my own experiences talking with L&D professionals and research into the state of the industry. Part 2 will establish how – and why – to bring learning and talent training together.

Companies are turning to eLearning as the new content marketing tool to build brands, increase consumer loyalty and create lucrative new revenue streams.