Corporate Learning Best Practices

August 1, 2018

How Manufacturing Companies Can Prepare Their Entire Workforce For Industry 4.0

To adjust to the dynamic needs of Industry 4.0, training programs have to be more scalable, personalized, and flexible. The blended learning approach that combines classroom learning with eLearning emerges as a recipe for training success.

by Mangesh Wagh

July 31, 2018

eBook Release– This Time It’s Personal… Using Personalisation To Drive Engagement Within Online Learning

We are living in times where the personal approach gets things done in many fields of practice. That seems to be the case for eLearning too. How can you argue with the 77% of L&D professionals and the 94% of businesses that expressed their opinion about the importance and positive effect of it? Learners appreciate it as well, so you better get right on reading this comprehensive eBook on the many ways of implementing personalization in eLearning, and reaping the benefits for your organization.

by Christopher Pappas

July 29, 2018 | Sponsored

How (Not) To Respond To A Compliance-Related Scandal

What happens if a co-worker or employee makes poor choices that land them in the hot seat for a preventable compliance infraction? This article discusses best practices when dealing with a public-facing compliance breach.

by Gregg Ward

July 27, 2018

Rethinking Retail Staff Training: How To Create An Outstanding Customer Experience

Technology is evolving faster than ever and the role of in-store sales associates has become more complex and is now focused on tasks with the highest added value. Faced with these changes, traditional training methods lag behind. Yet, it is crucial to cultivate a meaningful training experience for employees and is a significant performance indicator in today’s world.

by Amanda Rollins

July 26, 2018

Training – The Key To An Outstanding Customer Experience In Retail

Providing quality customer experience in retail involves, at first, a rigorous recruitment process, but above all entails putting an effective training strategy into place to efficiently train sales staff to guarantee their expertise on products that are constantly evolving.

by Amanda Rollins

July 26, 2018

3 Things To Avoid In Compliance Training

Companies with ineffective compliance training make headlines. Learn the steps to take and the pitfalls to avoid in order to ensure your company does end up as a public example of what not to do in corporate compliance training.

by Chris Khouri

July 26, 2018

Designing For How People Really Learn, At The Point Of Work

If we scaffold and support working (rather than learning), we recognise how people truly learn, and grow, at work rather than continue the belief that people learn best in classrooms.

by David James

July 26, 2018

Tips For Effective Corporate Training: Information Is Not Instruction

Stand up trainers and professional speakers are often engaged to provide training to a workforce. While professional speakers can be entertaining and motivating and can provide incidental knowledge, they rarely possess the important content and instructional competency audience members need.

by Mike Petersen

July 24, 2018

Why You Should Develop A New Retail Sales Training Strategy

Why bother going to a store when a product is available online in just a few clicks? Here is why you should deploy a training strategy that will accelerate the digital transformation of your retail organization.

by Amanda Rollins

July 23, 2018

How To Motivate Employees In The Workplace In 5 Foolproof Ways

Even the most skilled employee can underperform if they’re not sufficiently driven. Motivation—the employee’s intrinsic drive to work—is the real catalyst for increased productivity. Discover several tried and true tips for putting this catalyst into action.

by Nikos Andriotis

July 23, 2018

Instructional Designers And Learning Officers: Storytelling Is In – PowerPoint Is Out

In his 2108 Letter to Shareholders, Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon, banished PowerPoint presentations from executive meetings and replaced them with “Narrative Structures.” Culture Shock! Storytelling instead of Bullet Points! Yes, you heard right. And if anyone knows a good idea, it’s probably Jeff. Amazon’s executive meetings now begin with participants spending 30 minutes reading stories about ideas and then discussing them. And it’s Bezos’ idea. The man who went from a new retailing idea to the world’s richest man in 23 years is advocating storytelling. And once again he’s right.

by Alex Terego

July 19, 2018

How Digital Learning Is Working In Retail

This is how you can make digital learning work for Learning and Development (L&D) to equip retail workers with all they need, as they need it, in a way that shapes how they think and act on-the-job.

by David James