Sat.Dec 19, 2020 - Fri.Dec 25, 2020

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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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Insights in a Nutshell: Developing Highly Effective Customer Service Training Programs

Infopro Learning

Today on 90% of consumers consider customer service to be a factor they consider before deciding whether to do business with a company (1). This is one of the many reasons industry leaders are doing all that they can to strengthen the skills of their customer service teams. They know that providing high quality service gives them a competitive advantage.

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Manufacturing Sector Training Challenges That E-Learning Can Help You Overcome

Capytech

Manufacturing Sector Training Challenges That E-Learning Can Help You Overcome. The manufacturing sector across a range of different industries is going through a transformation. This transformation is being driven by the development of new technologies, changing consumer expectations, increased global competition, and the impact of updated and new regulations, among other things.

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How to Choose the Right Custom eLearning Content Development Partner

Origin Learning

Why Is It Better To Outsource Custom eLearning Content Development? Developing an E-learning program can be challenging. Creating the right. The post How to Choose the Right Custom eLearning Content Development Partner appeared first on Blog - Originlearning.

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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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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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Performance Ecosystem Maturity Model

Clark Quinn

Someone on LinkedIn asked about a way to evaluate orgs on their learning infrastructure. And I had developed a Performance Ecosystem Maturity Model as part of Revolutionize Learning & Development, but…I hadn’t presented it. At least not in full. Here I rectify that ;). (A bit over 5 mins.) And, of course, the prose (and the diagram): Script.

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ID and eLearning Links 12/22/2020

Experiencing eLearning

As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful. I share these links periodically here on my blog. In this post, I share links on laptops for IDs, interleaving practice, resources for freelancers, and a podcast interview. Laptops for IDs. Best Laptops for Instructional Designers in 2020 Devlin Peck walks through the important factors for picking a laptop for instructional design and elearning professionals.

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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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How to Upskill Tech Employees Remotely Using an LXP

TOPYX LMS

Some tech companies have faced a specific employee technology training challenge throughout the COVID-19 pandemic: they have struggled to keep workers upskilled. A lack of employee training isn’t good for any company in any industry, but this is especially true for tech companies. For example, many tech employees must have a robust knowledge of products.

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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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Storytelling Series: A Powerful Tool for Your L&D Program

Dashe & Thomson

Storytelling in L&D. As L&D professionals, we want our training to stick. We know it’s critical to make learning content relatable and memorable. Yet, achieving that ‘stickiness’ module after module, and program after program, can be challenging. Sometimes you need more than pleasing visual design and novel interactivity to make a lasting impression on your learners.

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Microlearning empowers your frontline to cope, convert and create

Upside Learning

Cheryl Bachelder, then the CEO of Popeyes, writes about the time she was touring franchisee restaurants to talk to them about the importance of serving guests well. “I I met a young man who was not excited about my ‘lesson’. He asked who I was. ‘I’m I’m Cheryl,’ I said. Well, Cheryl,’ he said, ‘there’s no place […]. Upside Learning

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Drive Learner Engagement Through The Roof With 6 High-Impact Online Training Video Strategies

eLearning Industry

L&D teams need to constantly raise the bar for corporate training by creating engaging and interactive learning experiences. In this article, I show you how to integrate gamification, microlearning, and scenarios into online training videos. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Improve Your Remote Training Strategy for Senior Leaders with these 3 Tips

TOPYX LMS

Most companies are heavily utilizing remote training as the coronavirus pandemic plays out. With the recent approval of COVID-19 vaccines by various public health organizations around the world, the end of the pandemic is in sight. In the meantime, many companies will continue delivering remote training to staff. Once things start returning to normal, some companies will stick to a work-and-learn-from-home model, at least to an extent.

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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 Most Organizations Struggle With Mobile Sales Enablement (And How to Fix It)

BigTinCan

Mobile sales enablement is about making sure your salespeople have the information and technology they need to help customers and prospects anytime and anywhere. Most sales leaders intuitively know that they need this kind of system because it helps them serve the ever-more demanding modern customer. They know it’s not enough to answer a prospect’s question next week; today’s customers need answers now.

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6 competencies leaders need to develop right now

CLO Magazine

As we all know, right now, years are happening in weeks: The pandemic has accelerated the shift away from physical stores to digital shopping by about five years. In March, the number of Americans working from home accelerated by a decade in two weeks. The stock market saw 10 years’ worth of rip-down followed by a decade of recovery in six months , from March to September.

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Introducing The xAPI

eLearning Industry

The Experience API or xAPI for short; is a specification document created by a consortium of learning experts led by the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL), which is a US Government Programme. Whilst the document was being formed its prototype name was ‘project Tin Can’, but these days it is known by its official name, xAPI. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Webinar: Finding Your Happy During Work, a Pandemic & the Holidays!

eLearning Brothers

Research has shown that employee happiness improves the bottom line, but how can you help your employees find more joy right now? Between work deadlines, the pandemic, and the holiday season, we’re all in need of some tips for finding happiness right now.

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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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Thinkific Crosses 100M Online Courses Taken on its Platform

Thinkific

Vancouver, BC – December 22, 2020 – Thinkific, the leading platform for creating, marketing and selling online courses, today announced… The post Thinkific Crosses 100M Online Courses Taken on its Platform appeared first on Thinkific.

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Strategic Partnerships

Coreaxis

Until recently, businesses thrived on their internal resources. Their ability to house numerous entities within their organization was a strength, and for those who could financially attain it, it was a necessity. However, this practice has dramatically changed. Now, corporations try to keep their on-premise resources efficient, and outsource their needs when they can.

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Adult Learning Tactics For Sales Training Effectiveness

eLearning Industry

As the business marketplace continues to rapidly evolve, sales training programs require effective strategies to drive readiness for the sales teams they support. By taking into account the prominent characteristics of adult learners, sales trainings can be memorable events that engage and resonate. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Measuring the impact and ROI of virtual learning

CLO Magazine

In today’s uncertain economic climate, the need to ensure that virtual learning provides value and improves organizational outcomes is increasingly important. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic and so many people shifting to remote work, most learning programs have shifted to virtual formats. This environment has created the need for program owners to design and implement virtual learning with the desired outcomes in mind.

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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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How Arlo TMS integrates with Coassemble to streamline your training management operations

Coassemble

So, your training management operations deliver online courses. Maybe some face-to-face courses and live online webinars too. You’ve got your eLearning content creation and hosting sorted – that’s where Coassemble comes in. But when it comes to managing the other parts of your training operation – think online registrations, e-commerce, finance, and the like – you’re stuck in the trenches of manual processes. .

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10+ Gift Ideas You Need to Ask For This Year

TechSmith Camtasia

Good tech isn’t just for Christmas. TechSmith is proud to present the ultimate gift guide for the video creator, audio editor, or remote worker in your life. If you want to level-up your video or audio production, or want to know what products the TechSmith team recommends to make truly great videos, then your Christmas has come early! The TechSmith team are sharing their top tech gifts, as well as their tips and ideas for communicating more successfully online.

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Planning Out Your Employee Training Program

eLearning Industry

Planning your employee training program efficiently will give you the framework you need to conquer your training goals and achieve the desired results. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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6 reasons to use an LMS for employee training software

Academy of Mine

6 Reasons You Ought to Use an LMS for Your Employee Training Software. Anyone who has spent time doing carpentry knows that sometimes, there’s nothing better than the tool built specifically for the job at hand. Sure, sandpaper and some elbow grease can get the job done, but sometimes you just need an oscillating spindle sander. And the tool built specifically for the job of employee training?

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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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TalentLMS brings home a plethora of training awards

TalentLMS

Every quarter and every year, software review sites and training-related organizations reward the best learning management systems. TalentLMS has the honor to be — again! — one of the leaders during the fall of 2020. With its exceptional ease-of-use , reasonable pricing , and fast implementation , TalentLMS ranks first in multiple categories and has been recognized as one of the best LMS vendors from sites like G2 and Training Magazine.

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Three Key Factors That Make HRCI's PHR So Hard to Pass

BenchPrep

The PHR is notoriously hard. In 2019, the pass rate was just 69%. Because the exam certifies the competency of a modern practitioner of human resources, which is a complex profession, it’s safe to say that the rigor is a feature, not a flaw.

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8 Overlooked Advantages Of Hiring An eLearning Localization Project Manager

eLearning Industry

Does your team need a leader to communicate with clients and conduct QA checks? Let's look at some of the top reasons to hire an eLearning Localization Project Manager. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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