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5 Steps to Design an Effective Sales Training Program

CommLab India

Almost every business has one mutual goal, to make enough sales to be profitable. One of the major reasons your sales will skyrocket or stay stagnant is the quality of your sales training and this will help you design a successful training program.

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Your Brain Is Wired for Music

Learningtogo

Your Brain Is Wired for Music. by Margie Meacham. This post first appeared in the ATD Blog on the 14th of March 2019. Pythagoras, Greek philosopher and mathematician, is recognized for discovering the relationship between the length of a string on an instrument and the pitch that the string produces. He believed that this correlation was part of a harmonic relationship that connects everything in the universe, which he called “The Music of the Spheres.

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Top 5 Reasons to Switch from Classroom Training to eLearning Now!

CommLab India

Training is an indispensable part of the corporate world. Giving up on traditional classroom training and adopting new ways of training can be difficult. This blog will explain five compelling reasons to implement eLearning for corporate training.

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How To Leverage L&D To Improve Employee Experience In Your Organization

eLearning Industry

Many employees report that, next to fair compensation, the most vital factor for engagement is the organization’s professional and career advancement efforts. In this article, I outline how organizations can use L&D to improve employee experience. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Academic Cheating: Test Your Knowledge!

KnowledgeOne

Do you know how common academic cheating is? What makes a human being susceptible to cheating? Are the reasons for cheating the same from elementary school to university? What do you think are the main factors that encourage students to cheat? Finally, what are some effective ways to counteract this problem in our educational institutions? Test your knowledge by answering the following five questions. 1.

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Is Augmented Reality Technology The Future of Education ?

Kitaboo

Technologies like Augmented Reality, that enrich the standard methods of imparting education are always in demand, now more than ever. The newer methods of teaching enable post-session content accessibility, contextual relevancy, personal attention, up to date courseware. A big disadvantage of using the traditional Instructor-led classroom is its inability to address individual learner needs, leading to a lack of attention and interest among students.

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Learning How To Swim.

eLearning Industry

Satirical short story about learning doing vs. learning about doing in a short time. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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What Are the Top Corporate Training Challenges in 2022?

Training Folks

What Are the Top Corporate Training Challenges in 2022? Effective training programs have always been crucial for organizations — but in the last few years, training requirements have evolved significantly. Workforces are becoming increasingly hybrid, digital transformation is widespread, and companies are coping with rapid market changes like inflation.

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Your Step-By-Step Guide To Writing A Training Needs Analysis RFP

eLearning Industry

Drafting the perfect RFP doesn’t have to be stressful, even if you’re new to the outsourcing game. This step-by-step guide shows you how to write a training needs analysis request that gets results. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Megatrends – are they friends or foes of sustainability?

Learning Pool

Investigating the four biggest megatrends of our time and how they will affect sustainability. Today’s society is being defined by global megatrends; what Ernst and Young refer to as ‘large, transformative global forces that define the future by having far-reaching impacts on businesses, economies, industries, societies and individuals.’ While many of these, such as technological innovation, promise to enrich our lives, they also affect the planet and its resources.

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How Can Iterative Testing Lead Your eLearning Marketing Campaigns?

eLearning Industry

Iterative testing is gradually evolving over time. Do you want to avoid disrupting and confusing users but also increase your marketing performance? Keep reading to find out how to make your marketing excel. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Customers TELL ALL: Learning Pool Live ’22

Learning Pool

The Death of E-learning – A Learning Pool Podcast. An irreverent look at what’s going on in the world of online learning. We cut through the bluster to get to the heart of what online learning should be – and what it shouldn’t. There’ll be interviews, panel discussions, and much more, along with the recurring segment ‘The Death of E-learning’ where we ask our guests which element of L&D they’d throw out if they had the chance.

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6 Developer Experience Best Practices

Appsembler

Crafting the best experience for developers requires you to adopt a different mindset than with a traditional user experience. Instead of treating developers as leads, you need to approach them as a workforce that’s eager to learn, improve, and utilize the best tools that solve their problems. This approach involves helping developers understand and experience the value of your product and the problems it solves.

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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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A Competency Model: Examples of How to Use One to Manage Skills

Avilar

What is a competency model and how do we use one? Here are some competency model examples that will help you better manage your employee skillsets. When talking to business and HR leaders about how to solve workforce issues, one of the most common questions we get is, “What, exactly, is a competency model?” Often, that’s followed by, “Do we need one?”.

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DevLearn 2022 – Rewind

eLearning 24-7

To say nothing exciting happened at DevLearn is to say, that the Mirage hotel, is still a great hotel, and the idea that some company plans to refurb it or rebuild it into something else is unheard of. Wait, that is exactly going to happen. Say goodbye to the Volcano, and don’t get me started about the room. On the plus side, or I hope not, DevLearn won’t be there in 2023 because a gutted hotel is not a place to have a show.

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8 Reasons Why Most Online Corporate Training Fails

KnowledgeAnywhere

Corporate training programs are designed to create a difference for the employees. The programs are developed specifically to provide employees with unique skills and tools applicable in their working areas. However, most corporate training programs tend to fail. According to the British Chamber of Commerce, 60-90% of the skills learned during training are either forgotten or never applied on the job.

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5 Benefits of Upskilling Employees

Chronus

Between the pandemic and the Great Reshuffle, the world of work has changed drastically in just the past few years. Finding quality employees with the right skills has become a serious challenge for employers. Meanwhile, many employees are seeking new opportunities, either because they want to take a new direction and establish a new work/life balance or they’ve been displaced by workplace upheavals.

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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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Learning transfer requires a learning workflow solution

CLO Magazine

Training, without learning transfer, is arguably a waste of budget and time. So, what does training need to achieve learning transfer? How do we ensure the operationalization of what was delivered, so it becomes the new way of doing things? Delegates take in what is delivered during a learning experience and then they must let it out to express it, to test it, to practice it and get good at it.

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The Step-by-Step Succession Planning Process and How it Benefits Your Business

Acorn Labs

As natural attrition leads to the loss of knowledgeable and capable employees, you'll find vacant positions that need to be filled quickly to keep your business running smoothly. But choosing successors for key positions can be daunting and time consuming. This is where the succession planning process comes in. What is the succession planning process?

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ABET Accreditation of Higher Education – All the Details

Academia

ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) is a US-based non-profit organization that grades engineering programs at a college to ensure professional-grade education. It is a global standard in STEM education to assure that undergraduate and postgraduate programs like computing, engineering, applied science, natural science, and software engineering provide academically sound, skill-based education. .

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Paradiso Open Source LMS: A Complete Guide

Paradiso Solutions

Open Source LMS vs Proprietary LMS. Even when essential investments in internal infrastructure are considered, an open-source LMS platform is cost-effective for most enterprises. Additionally, open-source LMS platforms may be better suitable for businesses looking for a long-term fix to developing custom eLearning platforms. On the other hand, proprietary platforms provide consumers with a comprehensive package, offering security through managed upgrades and technical support personnel – a

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How to Fix the 10 Biggest Mistakes in Gamification

Speaker: Stephen Baer - Chief Creative Officer, The Game Agency (a division of ELB Learning)

Are you using gamification as part of your L&D strategy? SMART! According to multiple studies, gamification strategies have been proven to increase engagement, improve knowledge retention, and get stellar results, but what if your results just don’t hit the mark? According to instructional designers interviewed by The Game Agency, some errors are very common when implementing gamified learning.

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The Step-by-Step Succession Planning Process and How it Benefits Your Business

Acorn Labs

As natural attrition leads to the loss of knowledgeable and capable employees, you'll find vacant positions that need to be filled quickly to keep your business running smoothly. But choosing successors for key positions can be daunting and time consuming. This is where the succession planning process comes in. What is the succession planning process?

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A Complete Guide on Skill Gap Analysis

Paradiso Solutions

What Is a Skills Gap Analysis? Skill gap analysis is a strategic approach to analyze whether your workforce has the required skills to perform tasks with full efficiency. This tool helps in assessing the gap between the actual state and the future skills required to achieve the goals of the company. It is an important factor for HR to identify the skill gap and address the same to the organization.

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How to Measure (and Decrease) Time to Proficiency in the Workplace 

Acorn Labs

Proficiency is a key measure of employee performance in the workplace. Time to proficiency is the way to understand how long it takes transitioning current or new employees to be impactful in a new role. Slow time to proficiency has a number of reverberating impacts in today's business environment: Lowered productivity, heightened attrition and a potentially significant financial impact on the organisation as a whole.

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AllenComm Takes Home Two Gold and Five Silver Medals at the 18th Annual International Davey Awards

Allencomm

AllenComm wins two Gold and five Silver medals at the 18th annual International Davey Awards for creativity in employee training development. The post AllenComm Takes Home Two Gold and Five Silver Medals at the 18th Annual International Davey Awards appeared first on AllenComm.

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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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Avoid firefighting with Structured Problem Solving

Nvolve

Avoid firefighting with Structured Problem Solving. All too often there is an urge to rush straight to solutions when we encounter unexpected snags or roadblocks in our business functions. Afterall, if time is money, then you could argue that you can’t afford not to make a quick intuitive decision, right? But what if the problem keeps recurring despite your efforts to patch and mend the process?

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The Big Shift – Virtual and Hybrid Learning in the Wake of COVID-19 with Jo Cook

dominKnow

In this episode Jo Cook joined us to discuss her research with Jane Daly, Behavioral Scientist specializing in evidence-based culture and capability transformation.

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Analytics Deep Dive: Knowledge Gaps & Lifts Analytics Panel

OttoLearn

In part four of our seven-part Analytics Deep Dive, we breakdown the Knowledge Gaps & Lifts analytics panel.