Corporate eLearning

What are the characteristics of an a great onboarding program? In this post I discuss my top 20 and look at how eLearning can be blended with traditional delivery to help you design and deliver a course that can help your new starters reach their potential faster and the organization reach its goals smarter.

Training is an imperative part of any organization; therefore it is wise to find an efficient deployment method that caters to the needs of the learner and the company. Find below the step-by-step points in adopting technology enabled training into your organization.

Onboarding is the first impression your company makes on a new employee and can have a huge impact on staff retention. With such high stakes - it is important to get it right. In this post I look at the most important aspects of onboarding and share our 4 part framework for creating great onboarding elearning.

Virtual classroom training offers a variety of benefits to organizations. However, performance goals can only be achieved if the design and development process is carried out effectively. In this article, I'll be offering insight into how you can successfully design interactive virtual classroom training.

As the percentage of the tech-savvy millennials rises in the workforce, the reliance on elearning tools should increase commensurately. However, this is not the only reason why elearning tools are important for staff training. Here are a few serious advantages that elearning tools bring to workforce training.

Every year the eLearning conference scene opens and closes with a bang. ATD Tech Knowledge starts the year off right in January, and DevLearn closes the year with grandeur. Sometimes it is hard to know which eLearning conferences you should attend. Here is a list of eLearning Conferences for the savvy Chief Learning Officers (CLO) to attend or send eLearning developers and instructional designers to.

Busy work schedules, hectic personal lives, and a lengthy list of responsibilities on both fronts, may prevent adult learners from continuing their education. At least, this used to be the case. Today, thanks to eLearning, it is possible for adult learners to further their education and develop necessary skill sets online. In this article, I'll highlight just a few of the many benefits of eLearning for busy adult learners who are always on the run.

Find out how the Chief Learning Officer came to be. This blog reveals the story behind the planet's first Chief Learning Officer and how he became CLO.

Are corporate brand books suitable for e-learning course design? When everyday we read about importance of color for a course do we follow right guidelines?

There are many ways that a business can go about creating a bad training experience. A survey conducted a few years back revealed that only 20% of business leaders were happy with their business’s Learning and Development function. Clearly, there is a lot of room for improvement in this area, but what training management practices should be avoided to ensure positive outcomes?

I am sorry to bring the bad news, but unless you are creating commercial courses that people buy on their own, there is a big possibility your precious learners think that training is a burden. You might be putting your heart and soul into a product for people who actually wish training would disappear from their to-do list, and think that training is a useless waste of their time, time that they can use for other, more productive activities (like for example meeting this month’s target). I know it is unfair and harsh, but can you really blame them?

The 70:20:10 model has a growing fan-base, but Learning and Development Departments will still need to have more concrete evidence for the value of the 70:20:10 model and how it will add value to the company as a whole, so as to be a worthwhile financial investment. A lack of empirical data supporting the 70:20:10 model as well as a lack of concrete certainty about its origin, impact on its uptake which is why traditional learning still stands its ground. Well, at least for the time being.