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ATD Presentation – How to Develop World-Class E-Learning

Capytech

ATD Presentation – How to Develop World-Class E-learning. In June we were fortunate to exhibit at the ATD Conference Middle East. It was our first show back in person in over a year so it was quite exciting to be back at a physical event.

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Is VR the Future of Corporate Training?

STRIVR

To maintain productivity, companies have adopted new technologies that give both managers and employees the ability to do more with less. While productivity is important, employees are hungrier than ever for leadership and professional development that will be instrumental to their career and personal satisfaction.

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Curiosity as a Business Practice

Learning Rebels

Trying to define curiosity is like trying to define the color blue. Depending on your perspective, mindset, and motivations – curiosity could mean being open to more information or inclined to risk-taking actions and decisions, falling down the rabbit hole of the internet, or being engrossed in research papers. . Curiosity is such a natural part of who we are and what we do that we are oblivious to its reach into our lives.

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7 eLearning Storyboard Mistakes That Slow Down Online Training Development

eLearning Industry

eLearning storyboards ensure everyone is on the same page and maintain online training course continuity. But what if your board ends up slowing down the team instead of speeding up the online training development process? 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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eLearning Company Insight: How has eLearning Evolved?

Training Folks

eLearning Company Insight: How has eLearning Evolved? When eLearning started to be used in regular commercial businesses about 30 years ago, the only companies that could afford to create and sustain this new learning format were very large organizations. There was an argument for about 20 of those years about whether or not eLearning was as effective in training employees as face-to-face training.

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Iterating and evaluating

Clark Quinn

I’ve argued before about the need for evaluation in our work. This occurs summatively, where we’re looking beyond smile sheets to actually determine the impact of our efforts. However, it also should work formatively, where we’re seeing if we’re getting closer. Yet there are some ways in which we go off track. So I want to talk about iterating and evaluating our learning initiatives.

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In-House Marketing: 5 Ways To Determine The USPs Of Your Employee Development Online Training Course

eLearning Industry

Just because you’re not buying an external course doesn’t mean you don’t have to market it. What’s the best way to ‘sell’ your in-house eLearning tools to your staff and get them invested? This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Extreme Facilitation - Bringing Learning Content to Life

InSync Training

Over the last two decades, our team has grown to over 140 practitioners, modeling learning best practices from their home offices all across the globe. As we look forward to continuing to design, deliver, and manage impactful training programs long into the future, we asked the InSync team to look back. What have they learned about learning during their careers?

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How to Measure and Analyze Employee Engagement in 2021

Dashe & Thomson

Employee engagement is one of the most important factors of building and maintaining an efficient workforce. Higher employee engagement leads to higher productivity, job satisfaction, and revenue across industries and roles, but many organizations neglect to provide environments in which their employees are encouraged and supported in engagement. Studies suggest highly engaged workforces are 21% more effective than their disengaged counterparts , yet only 36% of employees in the modern workforce

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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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Coping with Change: A Book Review of Flux by April Rinne

Clark Quinn

How do we cope with change? There’s a myth that we resist change, but Peter de Jaeger busted that in a talk I heard where he pointed out that we make changes all the time. We get married, take a different job, have kids, all of which are changes. The difference is that these are changes we choose! However, in this era of increasing change, we’re likely going to face more and more changes we didn’t expect.

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Delivering the Right User Experience

Origin Learning

Origin Learning was commissioned by a client to create a superior user experience to access training content for their learners. The post Delivering the Right User Experience appeared first on Blog - Originlearning.

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Top 10 Content Authoring Vendors

Top 10 eLearning

What is a Learning System without content? The answer – an empty shell. While building out an online training program, it’s important to focus on the content. If you don’t have automatic content lined up, you’ll need access to a great content authoring tool.

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Supercharge the frontline employee experience: AxoniCom LIVE 2021

Axonify

There’s no way to sugarcoat it. People are leaving the frontline in droves. They’re the biggest segment of the workforce, not to mention the face of your brand—and the Great Resignation has them walking away from the stress, frustration and burnout of customer-facing roles. Given the escalating war for talent, there’s no better time for … Continued.

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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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L&D Go Beyond Podcast: Learning Engagement in Supply Chain Training

Upside Learning

Upside Learning has recently launched its new podcast series: L&D Go Beyond. The podcast, hosted by Amit, Garg, Founder and CEO of Upside Learning, features L&D leaders and experts from across the globe who share their insights and experiences on various topics pertaining to workplace learning. The first episode of the L&D Go Beyond podcast […].

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Why Are Blended Learning Platforms Here To Stay?

Gyrus

The present circumstances have emphasized the importance of blended learning systems in training programs. Want to know why? Read this blog.

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How to Build a Personal Brand (Complete Guide)

Thinkific

For entrepreneurs, building a personal brand has never been more important than it is today. In this guide, we share the 7 steps to building a compelling (and profitable!) personal brand. The post How to Build a Personal Brand (Complete Guide) appeared first on Thinkific.

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Leadership Development Essentials for 2022

Coreaxis

As companies turn towards hybrid workplaces, culture is rising to become a top priority. The pandemic revealed many things within the workplace that might have been quietly brewing for decades (or not so quietly). The shift to “people-first” culture has put considerable stress on some companies that had traditionally been “work-first” or “revenue-first.

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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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Ways eLearning Is Benefitting Working Parents

Lambda Solutions

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Top 20 Features for Workforce Training

Gyrus

A good training program will help employees become better at their jobs with a higher degree of commitment and productivity.

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Upskilling Next-Gen Leaders: Why, How, and What Skills Are Needed

Degreed

In any business, leaders have lots of responsibilities. And the list will continue to grow as their organizations come to terms with fundamental changes that include hybrid working, automation, and digital transformation. New skills are required — and that’s why forward-thinking companies are shifting their focus to upskilling leadership, existing and future.

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Education In The Post-COVID Era: 5 Important Trends To Know

eLearning Industry

Let’s take a look at the current trends that are shaping education in the post-COVID era. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Implementation Is the Key to Successful Sales Enablement Strategy

BigTinCan

Sales enablement is the process of making sales teams able to efficiently move customers through the sales process to the point where the customer can make a buying decision. So gauging whether a sales enablement strategy is effective means answering this question: Is the sales team easily finding the product and training content they need when they need it?

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eLearning Brothers Again Wins Gold from Brandon Hall Group

eLearning Brothers

CenarioVR®, Lectora®, The Training Arcade®, and eLearning Brothers Custom Development Solutions Helped Secure 4 Awards. AMERICAN FORK, Utah--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Learning solutions leader eLearning Brothers today announced the acceptance of four distinguished 2021 Excellence in Learning awards from the Brandon Hall Group in the area of Human Capital Management (HCM).

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5 Best Onboarding Tools for New Employees

Edume

It’s no secret that onboarding is vital to a business’ success, and choosing the right tools can be make or break when it comes to preventing employee turnover. Despite our surge in reliance on digital solutions, especially since the start of the pandemic, many employers are still relying on traditional, clunky processes when onboarding new employees. 58% of organizations focus their onboarding program on processes and paperwork, resulting in a lengthy, inconsistent and uninspiring experience fo

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Business Reality Check For Learning: Training ROI—Part 3

eLearning Industry

It's time to stop promoting the ROI for training fallacies. Stakeholders don't recognize and never value this misleading calculation. Furthermore, learning is a cost center for which stakeholders won't measure an ROI. It's time to build your credibility by developing your financial and business acumen. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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5 Ways to Elevate Your Presentation Skills

BigTinCan

If you are in sales, customer success, customer support, or any other customer-facing role, you spend a lot of time speaking with customers. It may be time to elevate your presentation skills. In all likelihood, you are reasonably good at your job and deliver the information required. But. Are you delivering that information in a manner that achieves your desired outcomes?

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The Need for a Needs Analysis

eLearning Brothers

I had been in my internship for a few weeks when I had my first conversation with an executive-level stakeholder. He was the head of his division, which I had recently been assigned to support as a learning consultant, so you can imagine my nerves. I knew my goal was to find out what training needs they had, but I wasn’t exactly sure how to approach it.

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Teach these four key concepts to develop well-rounded leaders

CLO Magazine

Right at the start, professional training, learning and development made a misstep. At the time workplace training and L&D was being formalized in the mid-1900s, people were segmented and siloed within their organizations in terms of the professional development opportunities they were offered. For example, if you joined an organization in a finance role, and you were lucky enough to be provided professional development opportunities, those opportunities would likely solely be within the fie

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