Employee Performance

October 12, 2015

How To Measure eLearning Performance: The New Way To Build Evaluation Into eLearning

Measuring training is hard. In this article, I will show you how new technologies can help you measure eLearning performance using Kirkpatrick’s four-level evaluation model.

by Li Whybrow

October 3, 2015 | Sponsored

5 Reasons Why You Need To Invest In Employee Training 

In this article we will outline 5 reasons why you need to invest in employee training, even during economically challenging times.

by Ashley Casey

September 11, 2015

Rise Of Remote Working And How A Startup Used A Learning Management System To Train The Employees

Amid different practices followed by companies to ensure a healthy work culture, work from home is one that’s gaining fast attention. Embedding trust and flexibility in the process, organizations have started to include remote working in their work cycle. But what about other areas of working such as training the employees? How can a Learning Management System (LMS) help in the learning and developing the skills of the scattered segment of remote workers? This article focuses on how a startup relied over a Learning Management System to meet the training and knowledge transfer requirements.

by Srilakshmi Janardanan

August 14, 2015

12 Incredible Ways Custom eLearning Helps Distributed Workforce

Custom eLearning development offers a wide range of advantages in the private sector, but is custom eLearning really the way to go for distributed workforces? When your employees are scattered around the globe, designing and developing an online training program can be a challenging task. In this article, I’ll share 12 of the most convincing reasons why custom eLearning is a worthwhile investment for global organizations, so that you can enrich the overall experience for your staff that is located in different parts of the world.

by Christopher Pappas

August 11, 2015

6 Ways To Support Managers More Effectively

Our research shows that managers are vital to learning, yet they are failing to empower the people they are responsible for to learn. Here's 6 ways we've found that you can support managers in the workplace in order to see performance and user adoption rise.

by Laura Overton, FCIPD, FLPI

July 29, 2015

Active Learning In Online Training: What eLearning Professionals Should Know

Active learning is one of the most effective ways of learning indeed, but creating an online active learning environment requires careful attention. In this article, I’ll explain what active learning is, what are its best practices, and most importantly, how to integrate it into your online training course in order to increase your employees’ engagement, motivation, and performance levels.

by Christopher Pappas

July 23, 2015

Employee Online Training: Back To School For Corporate America

Back to school! Back to school! Bells are ringing. Birds are chirping. But inside the office, it’s just another Monday. People are indifferent. Now’s the time to relive the back-to-school nostalgia with annual employee online training. Below is some A+ advice for gearing up.

by Max Yoder

July 22, 2015

Albert's Successful Training Story

Albert drove home from the board meeting feeling very pleased with himself. He had been praised by his chairman for the work he had put in since joining the firm two years ago, and had been given a complete endorsement for the five-year training plan that he had presented to the board that afternoon in Mumbai, India. As he drove home, he reflected on those two tumultuous years. Prior to joining his current company, he had worked for five years as production manager in a small company that manufactured plastic coat hangers in his native Gujarat, and had made a name for himself there. When he arrived here, the company was barely profitable, with high absenteeism, shoddy work practices, and little or no quality control. He immediately saw there were two problems; low morale and lack of training. Here is how his successful training method helped increase productivity.

by Heera Edwin

July 16, 2015

Employee Engagement Versus Employee Energy

I read a really interesting article recently from Chief Learning Officer (CLO) about minions. You know, those little yellow guys with the weird overalls and obnoxious, yet cute laughs. Even if you don’t have children, you can’t get away from advertisements featuring these minions. They are everywhere—on billboards, in television commercials, on t-shirts, and in CLO articles. So why is a respected learning organization like CLO writing about an animated children’s movie character? It’s all in the name of engagement.

by Stephanie Ivec

July 12, 2015

Why The Learning And Development Industry Should Think Differently To Improve Performance

Hands up if you know what is working in your learning departments and why. Do you make assumptions about what’s working in your organization, or do you gather evidence and use it to understand why learning initiatives succeed or fail? In this article I will share why the Learning & Development industry should think differently in terms of how we are using evidence in order to improve performance.

by Christopher Pappas

July 7, 2015

13 Vital Tips For Creating A High Impact Learning Function

Check out these tips from leaders in top learning organizations and find out what kind of benefits and impacts they are having on the business, as seen through the eyes of Towards Maturity's in-depth research program.

by Laura Overton, FCIPD, FLPI

July 4, 2015

4 Ways Online Training Increases Productivity

Companies embrace online learning as a successful means of heightening the productivity of their employees. In this article I will share 4 ways in which online training increases productivity.

by Roz Bahrami