Online Training

April 24, 2016

5 Tips To Induce A Learning Organization

Corporate training is not for individuals any longer: The entire organization learns and qualifies with in-company training. Team managers create courses to distribute throughout the company. Here are 5 tips for an effective knowledge exchange in a learning organization.

by Annika Willers

April 22, 2016

How To Use 70:20:10 Model For eLearning Solutions

What is 70:20:10? According to Morgan McCall, Lombardo, and Eichinger who are credited with developing the idea back in 1996, it comes from how we learn. “Lessons learned by successful and effective managers are roughly: 70% from challenging assignments, 20% from developmental relationships, and 10% from coursework and training.” The number that hopefully jumped straight out at you was the 10%.

by Daniela McVicker

April 18, 2016

4 Online Learning Trends That Will Change The Way You Create Training

Learners in 2016 are different to learners in 2010. Modern learners want bite-sized learning that they can complete during breaks in work hours. They want mobile learning they can quickly consume on their smartphones. And they want to be entertained and challenged with games! Here are 4 online learning trends that will definitely change the way you create training courses.

by Steve Penfold

April 15, 2016

Employee Engagement: A 5-Step Guide For What Could Be Your Organization’s Biggest Challenge

Your employees are a vivid, evolving part of your corporate culture - more than ever before. That is why employee engagement is so imperative: It can affect your image, your recruitment process, your turnover, and your culture.

by Elias Parlavantzas

April 13, 2016

Content Marketing For Online Training: Lessons From Aristotle

People who sell courses online for passion and profit are sometimes referred to as “edupreneurs”. Let’s assume you are an edupreneur and have some courses built and installed on a Learning Management System. We’ll focus here on how to make learners aware that those courses exist – without attention paid to this it is not likely they will sell well. The topic of this article is content marketing for online training, and inspiration comes from an unlikely source in the context of modern digital marketing: The Greek philosopher Aristotle.

by David Hill

April 11, 2016

Report: Corporate Learning Is “Wildly Out Of Sync” With How People Prefer To Learn

Corporate learning is “wildly out of sync” with how people prefer to learn. That’s according to a recent report by Towards Maturity, the independent, UK-based, not-for-profit company that investigates the impact of learning technologies at work.

by Steve Penfold

April 6, 2016 | Sponsored

Change Management: 3 Reasons Why Training Supports Organizational Change

Here are 3 reasons why corporate training supports organizational change and is an essential part of the change management process.

by Fionnuala Courtney

April 1, 2016

10 Cloud-Based Learning Management Systems For Small Business Training

In the past, employee training necessitated the hiring of training experts to deliver face-to-face seminars, which proved to be costly, especially for small businesses. Furthermore, employees involved in training must be taken away from their assigned jobs, which can lead to disruptions in the services your company provides, which only serves to add to the cost of the training. Here are 10 cloud-based Learning Management Systems that will significantly reduce your small business training’s cost.

by Kate Morrison

March 31, 2016

5 Innovative eLearning Solutions For The Self-Directed Learner

We are long past the online coursework and training that involves video lectures, unit plans and assignments, and exams. This type of instruction is no longer embraced by learners, and those who design eLearning coursework for students or business training are embracing new strategies and technology very rapidly now. It is a new day for eLearning, and the self-directed learner will have access to all of these new innovations.

by Leona Henryson

March 29, 2016

Employees Dread Training? Making Employee Training And Development Engaging

Picture it: It’s time for employee training and development at work. You're in a board room with a handful of your colleagues, struggling to stay awake as a trainer slowly progresses through a PowerPoint presentation. This particular session is about a new software tool you're going to use for work in three months. Your mind keeps drifting as the trainer's monotone voice starts to ring hollow in your ears, and your colleagues are starting to nod off. Unfortunately for many working people, this is an all-too-familiar scenario. The idea of having to sit through another boring training session probably doesn't get their blood pumping. And when they get to that session, they're likely to have their eyes glued to their phones, checking the latest football scores. Even worse, when they leave the room, they've practically forgotten half of the content, and they'll only lose more as time goes by.

by Jayme Jenkins

March 25, 2016

Product Training In A Multi-Language Platform

Product training for employees and partners helps keeping everyone up-to-date and reassured about doing “the right thing”. Product managers easily create product training with online training software. They are challenged however by geographically dispersed production sites: The distance makes it hard to monitor acceptance and results of training, and often involves language differences.

by Annika Willers

March 23, 2016

Training Employees According To Their Learning Style

If you want to train employees effectively, you need to be aware of who you're training. At the end of the day, the goal of training employees is to increase knowledge so that they can complete their tasks more effectively – but every employee is different. When using online training software, it’s even more important to remember that each person learns differently, so you need to build your learning content accordingly.

by Roz Bahrami