Corporate Training

March 3, 2016

Tell Me A Story: How I Used Storytelling To Enhance Training

How do you make an impact on learners?  How do you help them find the relevance and WIIFM (“What’s In It For Me?”) in your training?  Embrace storytelling. 

by Melissa Dougherty

March 3, 2016

Using Elements Of Improv Theater For Virtual Onboarding: An Interesting And Effective Learning Tool

Face-to-face meetings, meeting in time-displaced blended settings like blogs, or meeting in virtual real-time like through video chat, or immersive 3D environments, all have their advantages and challenges. In virtual environments the non-verbal elements are limited. Whenever you don’t meet in real person, the lack of personal face-to-face communication is a gap that has to be overcome in all other virtual variations of get-togethers. So, organizations are now facing new challenges to virtual onboarding where it is essential to emphasize the interpersonal dynamics of virtual collaboration and establish practices for team building. This can be achieved by adopting some elements from Improv Theater.

by Heena Nanda

March 2, 2016

Sales Training: Why Your Sales Staff Needs Continual Training

If your Human Resources department operates like most others, sales training is entirely focused on training your staff to sell your company's products or services.

by Roz Bahrami

March 1, 2016

How To Reduce Scrap Learning In Training: Take It From Librarians, We Know Scrap When We See It

When it comes to our collections, great public librarians are like great Instructional Designers: We keep them current, relevant, appealing, and responsive to our communities. Keeping our collections useful and looking good means we have to get rid of things though. That’s right: Public libraries throw books away. Here is how to reduce scrap learning in your training.

by Emily Schaber

February 28, 2016

Knowledge Mining: Instructional Designers Note That Data Is Not Knowledge, Just As Crude Oil Is Not Rocket Fuel

Today’s employees are knowledge miners. Because data are just that – data. Data has no intrinsic meaning or usefulness. Like buried coal or oil, it is inert; it is static, useless to us. It does, however, have enormous potential. In fact it has incalculable possibilities. And that is where Instructional Designers can play a crucial role. Let me explain.

by Alex Terego

February 27, 2016

How Mature Is Your Customer Training?

Here is a simple way to know where you are exactly regarding your customer training.

by Gilles Mattelin (Hiring)

February 27, 2016

Gamifying Instructional Design With Learning Battle Cards

Gamification has always been in, but there was no one to call it the name it now boasts. Games engage our attention; make us feel a bit like kids. Even “serious” games drive us to compete with one another. Same thing with Learning Battle Cards, which are currently being launched globally.

by Piotr Peszko

February 26, 2016

The Learner Centered Approach: Moving From The Master’s Voice To The People’s Voice

The verdict is in and more proof is coming in to support it: The world of learning is shifting from a top-down paradigm (that of a mostly instructor-led/face-to-face and formal type of learning) to a not-only-more-informal and online one, but to a mostly digital, learner centered learning and employee-driven one.

by Elias Parlavantzas

February 25, 2016

3 Ways To Differentiate Your Online Training And Standout From Your Competitors

All training organizations need to focus on standing out from their competitors. Why? Because with more competition entering the marketplace, it’s now harder than ever to sell courses. The only way to remain competitive (without reducing your prices) is to find ways to differentiate your online training.

by Steve Penfold

February 25, 2016

eLearning For Health Professionals: The Spanish Market

eLearning for health professionals is a growing international training market. In this article, Elena Fernandez tells us about the Spanish eLearning market in this sector.

by Leticia Lafuente López

February 24, 2016 | Sponsored

5 Things About Learning Simulations Your Boss Wants To Know

Learning simulations. Serious Games. eLearning. Digital Learning. These words seem common nowadays, right? This might be the case if you are the training manager of a digitally driven company. However, for some CEOs, the concepts listed above are inappropriate to a proper learning organization. Are you a training manager yourself? Do you have to fight with your boss every day so that he accepts to use learning simulations within your overall training strategy? Well, if you are in that case, keep reading. In this article, we will give you 5 tips to convince your boss that setting up learning simulations is definitely the right thing to do.

by Yann Teyssier

February 23, 2016

6 Tips To Maximize The Online Training ROI

ROI of online training is a hot topic right now. What is really important to note is that measures to maximize ROI must not be handled in isolation. Instead, they need to be an integral part of the cycle that begins with your Training Needs Analysis (TNA), determining the training format (online, blended, or ILT), learning strategy, and evaluation.

by Asha Pandey