Corporate Training

July 1, 2015

Using Storytelling For Compliance: Why Storytelling Is At The Heart Of Great Compliance Training

A storytelling approach makes sense for learning of any kind, but it's particularly effective when you need to make data and complex information meaningful and relevant to your audience. Learning facts is difficult, but assimilating a story is something that comes naturally to most of us. Read how using storytelling for compliance training helps compliance learners not only absorb information, but also change their behaviors.

by Heather Pope

June 27, 2015

Top 5 Tips For Innovative eLearning Development

Amongst the challenges that Learning and Development teams and Learning Consultants face today, the top 2 pertaining to training would be: 1) How to increase the efficacy of training?, and 2) What learning strategies should be adopted to ensure that the learning and business mandates are met? In this article I will outline 5 tips for innovative eLearning development that will help organizations improve efficacy of training by making the learning stick.

by Asha Pandey

June 24, 2015

7 Ways Unconventional Coaching Produces Extraordinary 1:1s With Your Employees

There are 7 rather surprising reasons why your 1:1s with your employees may not be as effective as you would like them to be. That’s the bad news. The good news is that unconventional coaching can turn every single one of those scenarios around and produce extraordinary results. In no particular order, here are those hard-to-discover causes and what to do about them.

by Christoph Spiessens

June 21, 2015

3 No-Nonsense Reasons To Track Learning

Tracking learning goes way beyond hand-slapping accountability. Here are a few thoughts on how we’ve seen measuring training reaches far beyond checked-boxes.

by Mitchell Causey

June 20, 2015

Learning Disabilities In Online Training: 10 Facts eLearning Professionals Should Know

What exactly are learning disabilities? How do they impact online training? Can a learning disabled employee successfully complete your online training program? In this article, I’ll share 10 important facts you need to know about learning disabilities in online training, so that you will be able to recognize and support your learning disabled workforce.

by Christopher Pappas

June 19, 2015

Proof Of The Pudding: Measuring The Business Impact Of Corporate Training

In the workplace, proving the benefits of our activities is not always easy. But in order to know what activities truly add value and help to achieve goals, measuring results and providing evidence of success is vital. Measuring the impact of corporate training is highly important but it is often not done effectively or indeed at all. This article addresses some of the key considerations for measuring the training in every organization.

by John O Brien

June 18, 2015

Why Cross-Training Employees Makes Sense

Cross-training is becoming trendy; more and more businesses find themselves having to respond quickly to customer service requests, and they need the flexibility to accept them and handle them professionally, if they are to survive.

by Roz Bahrami

June 17, 2015

Adapting Your Onboarding With Diversity

The workday is busy enough as it is, and many people use standardization and routine as a way of making their seemingly endless to-do lists more manageable. While this is a great technique for many tasks, standardization in onboarding fails to make use of the inherent diversity each worker brings to the table.

by Max Yoder

June 17, 2015 | Sponsored

Top 6 Benefits Of Gamification In eLearning

Gamification in eLearning helps create an effective learning system that enables learners to rehearse real-life scenarios and challenges in a safe environment. In this article, I will walk you through some of the benefits of Gamification for learners and how the experience of learning (recall and retention) can be enhanced through Gamification.

by Asha Pandey

June 16, 2015

4 Tips For Designing Captivating eLearning

The development of informative yet engaging and captivating eLearning can sometimes be a tricky balancing act. Read our top 4 tips below to find out how you can add that extra punch to your course and create a captivating eLearning experience.

by Tamar Elderton-Welch

June 12, 2015

Play to Win! The Gamification Benefits In Workplace Training

Organizations are focusing on finding new ways to make training more engaging and enjoyable for learners while improving the impact of training on the organization. Emerging technologies have opened up a lot of new ways to make training more effective. Gamification is one of these, the benefits of which we will explore here.

by John O Brien

June 11, 2015

Microlearning Breaks Down Training To Build It Up

With employees who are busy with other duties and often on the go, using microlearning by giving learners bite-sized programs frequently fits into their work day more easily than traditional training. However, making microlearning non-linear helps you deconstruct your eLearning content further, so that you can easily personalize it and successfully meet different learner needs.

by Jayme Jenkins