December, 2020

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Employee Onboarding Tools to Streamline the Hiring Process

Infopro Learning

If you are many other l&d professionals who work at organizations that are focusing on improving their employee onboarding programs s this year, you are probably looking for ways you can streamline the entire process. This makes sense if you consider the impact a high quality onboarding program can have on your companies brand reputation, employee retention rates and even its revenue.

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Training's Role in Employee Retention Management

ej4 eLearning

Employee retention management is more than just attracting and retaining key talent through things like salary and benefits. It is being strategic and intentional about the activities that make employees loyal and that enhance team performance.

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12 (sm)ART Storytelling Lenses For Any Scenario

eLearning Industry

Storytelling is a powerful tool to capture your audience's hearts and minds. Storywriting, however, is a completely different story. Use these 12 (sm)ART lenses to improve your skills. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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What Potential Advantages Can eLearning Offer to Higher Education?

Clarity Consultants

The higher education sector has been going through a digital transformation. COVID-19 made transitioning to online learning models essentially mandatory, ensuring students could be protected while continuing with their education. While many schools treated the shift as a pure necessity, the eLearning approach can do more than simply meet social distancing and similar requirements; it can provide numerous benefits, too.

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From Predictive to Agile: How to Choose the Right Project Management Methodology

Our profession is undergoing a transformation, moving away from rigid, one-size-fits-all methodologies. Instead, project managers are embracing dynamic and adaptable frameworks that carefully consider project and product variables to determine the most suitable development approaches and project life cycles.

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6 Elements Every Online Course Needs to Have

LearnDash

Every educator wants to create a course that will keep learners riveted. Here’s how to get there. Many online educators begin creating courses with a good idea, but get lost somewhere along the way. Maybe they’re experts in their field, but haven’t ever created something in an online format yet. Or perhaps they had a great idea for an interactive feature, but can’t seem to retain learners.

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What Change Does Diversity Training Bring to Business?

Infopro Learning

The modern workplace is rapidly changing. Due to advances in technology and current events the global workplace is expanding. More employees are working from home than ever than before. These recent changes are only expected to continue and along with these changes comes new challenges. In a world where distributed teams work across the globe on projects often serving communities in different nations all the time.

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A new generation of tools for meeting and networking online

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

There is a new generation of tools that enriches the toolset of online facilitators. Wow. In this blog I will list a number of them and hope to make you enthusiastic to start experimenting. The first one I discovered was Wonder Me. The first time I used Wonder Me, I was amazed by the different way it made me feel and the freedom I experienced as compared to the normal webconferencing tools.

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eBook Release: Virtual Training—SweetRush Style

eLearning Industry

Following current trends, all eyes are on virtual training. This is a challenging implementation that should not be taken lightly. In this article, explore inspiring case studies that demonstrate in detail everything you need to know. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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3 Ways to Make Remote Training Sessions More Engaging for Teams

TOPYX LMS

eLearning in the workplace is nothing new. Online employee training has been widely used for many years. However, most companies have historically used blended learning, which is a mix of online and in-person learning, to train their employees. But due to limitations created by the coronavirus pandemic across all industries, organizations have pivoted to provide education that takes place almost solely online.

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The Best Skills Analysis Tools for Upskilling

Faster than ever, the world is shifting and shaping how people work, exposing and creating deep skill divides across industries and around the world. As a result, business and HR leaders are scrambling to “upskill” employees. If you’re scrambling to upskill your employees but don’t know where to start, make skills analysis a routine part of your decision-making process.

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Your E-Learning Course Needs Better Checklists

LearnDash

Checklists can be a helpful learning aid—when they’re used correctly. Ask enough people how they feel about checklists, and you’ll probably notice that most fall into one of two camps: they either love them, or they hate them. For such a simple tool, checklists evoke strong reactions. Some will swear that they can’t get through their day without a checklist to keep them on task.

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Separate content from description

Clark Quinn

Once again facing folks who aren’t using styles, I was triggered to think more deeply about the underlying principle. That is, to separate content from description. It’s a step forward in what we can do with systems to bring about a more powerful human-aligned system. And, as always, here’s the text, in case you (like me) prefer to read ;).

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Building a High-Performance Workplace with Leadership Training

Infopro Learning

You might be surprised to hear that investing in leadership development can greatly impact the culture of your organization. Of all the different types of corporate training programs, leadership development plays one of the largest roles in creating a high performance workplace. Your leadership team interacts with both your customers and your employees.

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Sales Manager-In-Training: Are You Made For The Next Step?

ej4 eLearning

So, you are thinking about your future in sales and possibly becoming a sales manager. You have years of selling experience and multiple top performer trophies and you think you are ready for the next step in your career. Before you embark on your journey as a sales manager-in-training, let’s think about what this really means.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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How To Accelerate A Rapid Custom eLearning Solution For Superb Training Results

eLearning Industry

You always wish your training is one-of-a-kind, engaging, and effective. You want it to have excellent results. That's fair! In this article, we will examine how you can accelerate rapid custom eLearning solutions to reach your goals. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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4 Characteristics of the Perfect Online Training Course

TOPYX LMS

With the use of remote training on the rise, training administrators are looking for ways to create the perfect online learning course for their employees who are working and learning from home. Most company leaders do not want to lose the benefits of employee training, which include greater employee job satisfaction, increased productivity and performance, reduced employee turnover, and more.

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Top 8 Online Course Trends for 2021

LearnDash

Wondering what skills are in demand right now? Here are some of the most popular course trends to prepare for 2021. It’s been a red-letter year for online learning. At a time when workforces across the globe have moved online and a rocky economy has caused many to search for ways to improve their attractiveness on the job market, e-learning has provided an accessible and flexible solution.

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Measuring Impact (or not)

Clark Quinn

So I saw a twitter thread pointing to an argument about how ROI is dead. And, well, that’s largely okay with me. However, the trigger for the post was from the results of Chief Learning Officer 2020 State of Learning report. And, when I saw them, I saw some problems. The question is whether we’re measuring impact, or not. I’d like to go through them and evaluate each.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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The Role of Adaptive learning Strategies in Driving Human Capital Transformation

Infopro Learning

Recent changes in the way we work, interact, and communicate have create a new set of challenges for organizations today. There is a higher demand for learning and development programs and at the same time delivering quality training has become more difficult due to recent events and the Covid-19 virus. Fortunately, there are a number of eLearning solutions organizations can use to continue training their workforce today.

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How 2020 Is Different & Top Tips from 16 Years of Holiday Stressbusters

InSync Training

For the past 16 years it’s been an InSync tradition to offer a free “Holiday * Stressbusters” session in late November. It’s meant to be a helpful, mostly-lighthearted look at ways of coping with things particular to the holidays: too many parties with too much food and, ahem, beverage, the feeling of being overwhelmed by so much planning and buying and wrapping and whatnot, dealing with the tensions of family gatherings, etc.

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User-Generated Content: Socialization Of eLearning Content

eLearning Industry

Content plays a central role in learning, more so in eLearning where the user learns mainly from the content and not from a human teacher. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Employee Training: Fast, Good, or Cheap?

ej4 eLearning

I once saw a sign hung in a dry cleaner that read: “We can do it fast. We can do it well. We can do it cheap. Pick any two, but you can never get all three.“.

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What Is the Actual Cost of an Open Role in Your Company?

In today's tight labor market, hiring and retaining top talent is more challenging than ever. Every day a job remains unfilled means lost productivity and revenue. But vacancies can affect much more than your revenue. There are multiple direct and indirect costs, and it's crucial to adapt your recruiting strategies to prioritize the most costly open roles.

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6 Problems to Avoid with Your Onboarding Training Program

LearnDash

Whether you’re creating onboarding for employees or volunteers, you need to avoid these common mistakes. Organizations of all sizes and missions have a frequent challenge to face when bringing on new recruits. While they frequently bring on new team members for a specific need, it takes time for those people to become accustomed to the job at hand. This can cause friction for the organization, and stress for the new hire or volunteer as they struggle to meet the demands of the work in an efficie

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Foundations of Learning Science

Clark Quinn

Another video, this time (ok, again ;) about learning science. They like me to do this to push the course, but I did hear the feedback on LinkedIn that the video format works. Nice to know. As always, also the script. I’ve argued in an earlier post for the value of learning science, but I want to go a little deeper. I want to talk a little about the evolution, and a little bit about what’s involved.

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Training Remote Workforce: Can Managed Learning Services Help?

Infopro Learning

The events of 2020 have caused many organizations to quickly shift gears and begin working remotely. This has greatly impacted L&D programs. A recent survey by Gartner found that 84% of in person training functions have been canceled this year. 83% decided to convert to digital formats (1). As time has gone on organizations are looking for long term solutions and outsourcing training.

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Six Key Trends We See for Elearning Authoring Tools in 2021

dominKnow

Here at dominKnow, we've been applying some of that introspection to our raison d'être: the improvement of eLearning authoring tools. We've asked ourselves and our clients questions like, what are you going to need from authoring software in 2021? How do you stay on the cutting edge? How can the right authoring tool help you improve the learning experience?

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Accelerating Change in the Insurance Industry: Why You Need to Invest in Talent Strategy

This whitepaper brings together research, expert opinion and industry trend data to help senior leaders understand current challenges and future-proof their businesses. Inside you’ll find insights on: The big challenges: From automation to onboarding, we explore the big challenges facing the sector. Onboarding: You only get one chance to make a first impression.

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Getting Ahead Of The Curve - Futureproofing Corporate Training With Learning And Performance Consulting

eLearning Industry

My eBook, Getting Ahead Of The Curve: Futureproofing Corporate Training With Learning And Performance Consulting, offers insights on why you should invest on learning and performance consulting for your virtual training transformation. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 books for all learning professionals

Matthew Guyan

A few years ago, I wrote a blog post where I shared 5 books every eLearning professional should read. I still stand by those suggestions but I’m adding this new selection for all learning professionals. The reason I’ve selected each of these books is because they’ve contributed to the evolution of the way I work. Here they are in no particular order: Innovative Performance Support by Conrad Gottfredson and Bob Mosher.

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4 Questions to Ask Your Learners to Customize Their Learner Experience

LearnDash

Adjusting your course to better fit the needs of your learners may not be as complicated as you think. Have you ever signed up for a course on a subject you really cared about, only to find yourself losing motivation after a couple weeks, even though the content is as good as ever? Being honest, this is probably most of us. Losing motivation once things get “hard” is a common struggle.

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