Infopro Learning

JULY 17, 2020

There are two major shifts that are currently creating a huge demand for leadership. The first is the ongoing digital transformation of work. Technology and automation are changing the kinds of skills and jobs that are available. Many of today’s jobs require soft skills. In fact, 44% of executives think employees are lacking critical soft skills such as communication, creativity, collaboration and critical thinking (1).

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BizLibrary

JULY 16, 2020

Here are four steps you can take to improve your recruiting practices, lower turnover, and make sure you're hiring the right salesperson for the role. The post 4 Best Practices for Hiring Sales Representatives appeared first on BizLibrary.

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eLearning Brothers

JULY 14, 2020

Studies have shown that formal instruction is only a small part of a worker’s overall learning.

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eLearning Industry

JULY 11, 2020

A lot of us are driven by quantity over quality, possibly because quantity is easier to evaluate. However, in eLearning, it’s not about how much you know but how well you know it…and apply it in the real world. In this article, I share 5 tips on how to measure learning with qualitative eLearning assessments. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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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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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 14, 2020

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 estimating development time, branching scenarios, and new tools. Estimating development time in higher ed. How long does it take to develop an online course? | UT Dallas eLearning Team While a few studies exist about development time for workplace elearning, not as much seems to be readily available for higher education.

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LearnDash

JULY 16, 2020

You want to build your email lists to better market your online course offerings. Here’s what you need to know. Email is one of the oldest and most reliable forms of marketing on the Internet, yet somehow, it is simultaneously the easiest to get wrong, while also being the easiest to get right. Almost anyone you talk to about email marketing will quickly begin to complain about the flood of marketing emails that won’t go away no matter how much they unsubscribe.

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eLearning Industry

JULY 17, 2020

As the digital nature of business and life continue to expand exponentially, it will become increasingly common to use a multilingual approach when developing eLearning courses online. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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eLearning Learning Submitted Articles

JULY 16, 2020

Learning and development professionals have had to abruptly adapt to changing circumstances. But what does the future of learning look like now?

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 14, 2020

From $7 billion to nearly $14 billion. That’s how much the spend on leadership training by American corporations grew over the preceding 15 years, according to Kaiser and Curphy in their 2013 paper Leadership development: The failure of an industry and the opportunity for consulting psychologists. Over that same period we witnessed the bursting of the dot-com bubble, the implosion of Enron, and of course the Global Financial Crisis.

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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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LearnDash

JULY 14, 2020

Learners studying from home frequently struggle to complete their course work. Here are ways you can improve the design of your course to help them. As a master procrastinator, I am always looking for advice on time management—and paying attention to tools and techniques that help me get down to work and stay focused. This is a common problem for many adults—students and professionals alike.

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ej4 eLearning

JULY 16, 2020

What does the future hold for training and development? What are the trends, and how should you prepare? Those are great questions, and if you’re asking them, that means you are being proactive about preparing your organization for the future.

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eLearning Learning Submitted Articles

JULY 15, 2020

Moving in-person training to virtual training has fast become a necessity. Check out these do's and don'ts for delivering virtual instructor-led training.

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Docebo

JULY 17, 2020

Sales training is the key to success for companies across the globe, and for good reason – your sales teams are on the front lines every day, competing for business against your rivals. Not only is winning the best feeling, but you have to win consistently to make sure your company maintains its competitive edge and established trust. In short, your sales team has to always be learning to “always be closing” Making sure your sales team is coming to the table prepared and knowle

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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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Spark Your Interest

JULY 16, 2020

Since Covid-19 people are now more familiar with some of the benefits of online learning. The global pandemic has forced organizations, their employees, and customers, to move to online learning. Some of the benefits, however, are much more obvious than others. While most writers on the topic list 5 or 6 of the obvious benefits of online learning there are many more.

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Origin Learning

JULY 14, 2020

The need for digital transformation and the decreasing shelf-life of skills was already driving the L&D industry towards a tipping. The post The Digital Transformation of Modern Workplace Learning appeared first on Blog - Originlearning.

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Upside Learning

JULY 16, 2020

He was well dressed, polite and his car well maintained. As we neared our destination, in answer to my question, he revealed the secret was the training he had received from the ride-hailing company when he had signed up, and which he kept receiving at regular intervals. This was a clear case of an employer […].

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InSync Training

JULY 15, 2020

Learner Engagement – defining and enhancing it have remained critically important in the modern classroom for years. If content design and delivery do not capture attention, demand participation, and encourage ongoing application, training programs inherently become less effective. Exclusive research conducted by the InSync Training team focused on the long-standing question, “What is learner engagement ?

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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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TOPYX LMS

JULY 16, 2020

Manufacturing companies have played a key role throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. However, unlike professionals from other sectors, frontline manufacturing workers are unable to work from home. For this reason, leaders of manufacturing companies must take special precautions to ensure the safety of their employees. “The most critical focus for every (manufacturing) organization is to keep employees safe in an environment where repeated outbreaks are a persistent threat,” stated McKinsey and Compa

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Performance Learning Productivity

JULY 14, 2020

The Internet Time Alliance Award, in memory of Jay Cross, is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of work. Recipients champion workplace and social learning practices inside their organization and/or on the wider stage. They share their work in public and often challenge conventional wisdom.

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Upside Learning

JULY 14, 2020

At Upside Learning, we believe that a big part of honing our craft lies in keeping ourselves updated on the latest in learning design, trends, and technology. In a world connected through social media, it is not enough to passively consume content; it’s important to engage with our community of readers, learning practitioners, and the […].

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eLearning Learning Submitted Articles

JULY 15, 2020

Learn what Business Acumen skills are needed to fully understand the potential impacts of the potentially disastrous upcoming company earnings reports

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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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Dashe & Thomson

JULY 13, 2020

If you’ve read our other blogs on this topic , you know that elements of a good compliance training strategy include tailored training, well-defined goals, focused instructional design, and predetermined metrics. It should also provide comprehensive communication and ongoing refresher training. While these are essential elements of any training program’s strategy, they alone do not constitute a compliance training strategy.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 15, 2020

So, this was a little silliness I did in the 99 second presos at the Learning & Development Conference. It was the second one (the other was more aspirational). I’d put it together and then wasn’t sure, but there was time and space. It’s just for fun, nothing serious, along the lines of others I’ve done. FYA (allegro): Hi, I’m Dr.

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dVinci Interactive

JULY 17, 2020

Using Training and Technology to Increase Productivity Technology and systems are critical to running efficient operations at a large company. d’Vinci CEO Luke Kempski talks to Lisa Browning, Manager, Learning & Development Systems at The Hershey Company as she prepares training for an enterprise rollout of SAP S/4HANA. Lisa describes how systems training makes employees more productive across the organization and improves the bottom line.

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Docebo

JULY 16, 2020

At Docebo, we’re focused, first and foremost, on creating and delivering a cloud-based LMS that our customers love. A cloud LMS stores a ton of data though, and not only do we want you to love the product itself, but we want you to feel secure using it. That’s why we rely on Amazon Web Services (AWS), so that we can offer a high-performing, reliable cloud-based LMS product to the learning & development marketplace that keeps your data and your people safe (because we consider your people as

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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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Gyrus

JULY 16, 2020

In current times, where the business environment is experiencing disruptions at a pace never seen before, companies are facing an urgent need to ensure that their employees can upgrade their skill-levels in time to be able to retain their market competitiveness. With the growing size of organizations, and with their branching-out into different locations, there is an urgent need being felt for a virtual platform over which training of employees could be conducted in a centralized manner.

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TOPYX LMS

JULY 14, 2020

COVID-19 has changed just about everything about daily life in the U.S., including how people train and learn in the workplace. Pre-coronavirus, many companies conducted training in-person, or partially online and partially in-person. eLearning Industry said that before COVID-19, “.70% of the course was offline and the rest was virtual. Now the scenario has been reversed, and online learning is taking up to more than 70% of the course and the rest is offline.” 1.

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Wisetail

JULY 13, 2020

The Wisetail LMS has the tools to boost engagement and better your business. How do we do that? With gamification, an intuitive user interface, and social and collaborative features. The post Sell and Scale Like Outdoor Voices appeared first on Wisetail LMS.

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