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7 Tips for Building an Online Coaching Brand

LearnDash

To build a successful online coaching and mentoring business, you first need to build clear messaging with your brand. Coaches and mentors are some of the most consequential relationships in many people’s lives. You’ve probably heard many successful people thanking their mentors and coaches during award ceremonies or in the acknowledgment of their books.

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Putting the Experience in Learning: What Is an LXP?

eLearning Brothers

For learning developers and training managers everywhere, creating an engaging learning experience that can be proven effective has long been the holy grail.

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The Science of Knowledge Retention and How It Affects Online Training

KnowledgeAnywhere

?Although learning is often associated with school, the fact is, people learn throughout their lives. This is true more than ever, as new technology is constantly being introduced. In the business world, companies need to train new hires and keep employees updated on the latest advances. The science of knowledge retention is worth studying, as it helps you design more effective training.

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Informal Learning For Beginners: Are You Ready To Engage Your Telecommuting Teams?

eLearning Industry

What is informal learning and how can it benefit your geographically dispersed staffers? This article covers the basics, benefits, and key characteristics. 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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Product Knowledge Training: Creating and Implementing a PKT Plan

Infopro Learning

Today businesses that provide quality customer experiences can set themselves apart from competitors and gain a more extensive base of loyal customers. Quality service is one of the critical factors today’s consumers consider before making a purchase. This has led many organizations to look for ways to improve customer experiences. One of the most common complaints customers have today is that the customer service representatives that they talk to do not know enough about the organization&

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Writing Conversations for eLearning

Experiencing eLearning

In a previous post, How to Start Creating Conversation-Driven eLearning , I described how I use conversations between two characters (a mentor and mentee or learning character) to deliver eLearning content. In this post, I’ll explain how to write and structure these conversations for eLearning. My next post in the series explains options for multimedia with conversation-driven eLearning.

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Tackling The Big Data Challenges: 5 Bear-Traps In Learning Analytics (And How To Avoid Them)

eLearning Industry

Research over the past few years has shown that while learning analytics and data are seen as a critical focus area for learning and development, learning professionals are not confident in their data skills and see big data challenges ahead as they respond to calls from the business to be more data-driven. Where are the potential pitfalls for L&D, and how should they avoid them?

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Courageous Leadership: The New Mantra for Organizational Development

Infopro Learning

This year has been full of change. Business models have shifted, many employees work from home and day to day practices in many industries are still being adjusted to better suit the current economic climate. The only thing that seems to be certain is uncertainty which can slow collaboration, innovation and productivity. As we approach the new year and the dust begins to settle many companies are looking for ways they can strengthen and improve the effectiveness of their current workforce.

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Course Ideas for Online Coaches and Mentors

LearnDash

Wondering how you can incorporate online learning into your coaching program? Here are some ideas for making it work. In recent years, online coaching has become a booming business. Not only has the interest in personal coaching grown, but the technology behind creating an online business has improved, and that has meant more people have felt comfortable bringing their services 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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Amp Up Employee Engagement through L&D

Dashe & Thomson

This year you need to build engagement through learning and development. Maybe you know there’s a connection between engaged employees and business success, such as higher profits and lower turnover than companies with disengaged employees. Maybe you are aware of the damage disengaged employees can do to your company by hindering productivity, innovation, and customer experience.

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Martin Luther King, Jr: Making A Difference

Allen Interactions

Martin Luther King, Jr: Making A Difference. Today, we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. as a federal holiday here in the United States. I fear that many of our federal holidays are taken a bit for granted—more as a welcome day off than an opportunity to reflect on something of great significance. But among our current holidays, Martin Luther King Jr.

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JULIE DIRKSEN – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

JULIE DIRKSEN - CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS. ABOUT JULIE DIRKSEN: Julie Dirksen is the author of the book Design For How People Learn and an independent consultant and instructional designer who has more than 20 years’ experience creating highly interactive e-Learning experiences for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to innovative technology startups to major grant-funded research initiatives.

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Ways to create an inclusive employee training program

Gyrus

Businesses of all sizes have made significant developments in becoming more inclusive and diverse. Here’s how organizations can overcome bias to create an inclusive employee training program.

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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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Why Your Company Needs To Conduct Training Analysis

Dashe & Thomson

When it comes to implementing a new training solution for your business, it is often difficult to settle on a single solution that is right for you. There are a plethora of options available for customer education programs, and they range in cost, seat time, learning outcomes, and many other variables. Thus, when searching for a training solution, the importance of training needs analysis cannot be overstated.

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Update on my webinars

Clark Quinn

I know, I know, I’ve been doing a lot of updates: books , workshops , and now webinars. I promise I’ll get back to my regular posting on learning things, but the benefit of these, unlike books or courses, is that they’re free. And several are coming up! So I thought I’d at least let you have a chance. So, here’s an update on my webinars.

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Why Outsource Employee Training?

ej4 eLearning

We all know the importance of effective and engaging employee training, and not just for compliance topics, but also for the personal and professional growth of employees. It’s so important, in fact, that many companies resist the idea to outsource employee training. Internal training teams are protective over the content and want to do it all.

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Webinar: Streamline Your Storyboards

eLearning Brothers

Developing a new eLearning project is an exciting challenge every time—that is until deadline pressure threatens to drown out all your creative energy! Don’t give up; we’re about to throw you a lifeline—how to create a storyboarding template!

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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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How an LMS Can Give Your Business a Competitive Edge in 2021

TOPYX LMS

2020 was a tough year for businesses throughout many industries due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hardships force businesses to adapt, and a major change that came about last year was the increased usage of remote work. In fact, remote work increased by 125 percent in 2020. 1 Other changes that affected businesses include a dip in productivity (there was a 7.2 percent drop in productivity after March 2020 in the U.S. 2 ) and smaller workforces due to staff cutbacks.

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Improving The Customer Onboarding Experience Through Product Training

Origin Learning

Why Build a Customer Onboarding Program? An investment in customer onboarding ensures a great start in the lifecycle of your. The post Improving The Customer Onboarding Experience Through Product Training appeared first on Blog - Originlearning.

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Create a Learning Journey with LXD

dVinci Interactive

Create a Learning Journey with LXD Learning Experience Design (LXD) is a shift in thinking that is learner-focused and helps you ensure that your learning solution is on strategy. In this episode of Powered by Learning, d'Vinci Senior eLearning Specialist Jenica Jones and I talk about the principles of LXD and how organizations can implement them to achieve powerful results.

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Throw it in Zoom and See if it Sticks! (Part 1)

InSync Training

2020 was a year that witnessed a myriad of changes in the workplace, society, and how we interact, work, play, and…live. In the world of learning and development, perhaps now it’s time to catch our collective breath, and review what we’ve done. 2020 was a year when members of the learning and development community (YOU!) were leaned on heavily to re-purpose, re-develop, and sustain professional development of the workforce in the pandemic.

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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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Why Corporations Should Strengthen Remote Training Efforts in 2021

TOPYX LMS

In 2020, remote training was essential to the success of many corporations. Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic developed, organizations quickly began moving their employees to a work-from-home environment. As a result, 55 percent of businesses globally offered some capacity for remote work as of November of 2020, according to Review 42. 1. Without remote training, businesses wouldn’t have been able to offer valuable training, including compliance training, to workers.

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2020 – What a year!!!

Upside Learning

2021 is still very new, and memories of 2020 are still very fresh – and why won’t they be, 2020 was such an eventful year for every one of us, that we are bound to remember it for long. The big shift to WFH The year presented many new challenges with the COVID-19 outbreak catching […].

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2020 was all About xAPI Profiles (for us)

MakingBetter

Like many of you in 2020, Megan and I had to seriously change how we've managed our work/life balance, household, workflow(s). Here's what we got done.

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Help! My Zoom Screen Share Keeps Freezing and Quitting + 3 Tips for Better Zoom Meetings

eLearning Brothers

Zoom is a way of life in these pandemic days. We lean on it for everything: meetings, sales demos, virtual happy hours, socially distanced game nights, workouts, and more. Tonight, my homeowner’s association is having our annual meeting over Zoom!

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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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What Costly LMS Selection Mistake Should You Avoid?

Talented Learning

Steer Clear of This Common LMS Selection Mistake Are you looking for a new learning system to support an expanded training agenda? Many organizations are – especially in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, only one month after countries locked-down in 2020, 63% of webinar attendees told us that they were already being expected to serve a broader learning audience mix – including customers, business partners and others outside their organization’s boundaries.

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Open Source LMSs Facts and Insight

eLearning 24-7

One of the areas that always gain interest and usage are open source systems, that is to say, free open source code (some are not), to which any organization, company, educational setting, government and so forth can build their own system (often noted as home-grown) and do what they wish with it. The usual arguments for building your own, includes you own 100% of it, scalability without the incurring cost (i.e. user seat costs), it’s free, and is configurable in such a way that connecting

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The Value of Video Conferencing with Remote Detailing in the Life Sciences Industry

BigTinCan

Do you sell to Healthcare Professionals (HCPs)? Do you sell pharmaceuticals? Perhaps you sell medical devices? Maybe lab equipment? You understand how hard it is to get their time and attention. HCPs have long been challenging to find time to meet with, leading to lost workforce productivity and rushed interactions that fail to educate them on your offerings fully.

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