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Employees are paying greater attention to workplace culture. Data indicates that for organizations to attract and retain talent in the years to come, they must create respectful workplaces. Leaders are the most important pieces of that puzzle.
Despite significant investment in going digital, e-learning presents several challenges, including disengaged learners and lower learning effectiveness. Turn to neuroscience to understand how the brain learns and how to create optimal learning conditions.
Measuring the effectiveness of training is a crucial activity to ensure expected return on investment. In the ever-changing business environment, corporate training needs are continually evolving. ROI continues to evolve accordingly.
We often adopt ideas from people around us — individuals we respect or consider to be members of our cohort, whether political, generational or professional. In adopting those ideas, we don’t always think them through or consider their consequences.
Offering a wellness package for employees has become the new normal. While employee wellness programs have noble intentions, they tend to emphasize physical well-being and neglect the equally important area of mental health.
There are many reasons time seems to run away from us during work. If you assume the people interrupting you are trying to do their best, every question should be a teaching moment. Effective leaders use every interruption as a teaching moment.
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Intrepid®, the market-leading collaborative learning platform provider, announced details of the latest enhancements to its platform. The new Intrepid features focus on enhancing the process for designing and delivering collaborative learning experiences.
Intellum, the leader in customer education and employee learning software and solutions, today announced that it has acquired UK-based Appitierre, the maker of the Evolve content authoring tool and the learning management system, Bloom.
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Offering a wellness package for employees has become the new normal. While employee wellness programs have noble intentions, they tend to emphasize physical well-being and neglect the equally important area of mental health.
FFL Partners, a private equity firm focused on growth investments in middle market companies, has reached an agreement to sell Crisis Prevention Institute, the leading provider of behavior management and crisis prevention training programs.
Attracting, retaining and developing a diverse, qualified workforce is vital for companies to compete and succeed. Employees’ unique backgrounds, experiences and cultures help provide superior value to customers and investors.
Content Development
Intrepid®, the market-leading collaborative learning platform provider, announced details of the latest enhancements to its platform. The new Intrepid features focus on enhancing the process for designing and delivering collaborative learning experiences.
You’ve got your eye on your next big technology investment. But what’s your plan for how to use it? What will people actually be learning? When it comes to creating effective digital learning experiences, technology plays a key role, but so does content.
Let’s dive into why game-based training isn’t the same as gamification, how games improve learning outcomes and why your non-millennial employees will not only tolerate game-based training but might even use it more than the millennials.
E-Learning
Despite significant investment in going digital, e-learning presents several challenges, including disengaged learners and lower learning effectiveness. Turn to neuroscience to understand how the brain learns and how to create optimal learning conditions.
The original approach to designing websites for a specific screen dimension has given way to responsive web design, enabling devices to optimize their display. Responsive design has introduced a range of new visual and experience design options.
Leading eLearning solutions provider, eThink Education, and the world’s largest compliance, professional development and general training platform, GO1.com, have entered into a partnership to provide total learning solutions.
IT and Technical Training
Companies with mature data fluency competencies experience markedly higher revenue growth, customer satisfaction, profitability, market share and employee satisfaction.
If your company hasn’t been compromised yet, congratulations. However, know that it will be. Evidence shows that the toll a breach takes on a company depends on how prepared its IT team and stakeholders - including all employees - are for the inevitable.
In the age of blockchains, 3D printing, CRISPR cas9 — and the inevitable new technologies that are yet to emerge — today's workforce is struggling to keep up with the latest developments. Finding resources for workers to learn from can be challenging.
Leadership
Employees are paying greater attention to workplace culture. Data indicates that for organizations to attract and retain talent in the years to come, they must create respectful workplaces. Leaders are the most important pieces of that puzzle.
Partners In Leadership LLC, the firm which guides clients in defining Key Results™, shaping Cultural Beliefs®, and solving Accountability Gaps, releases updates to Propeller, the leadership app that focuses and aligns individuals around critical business o
There are many challenges first-time managers face. Perhaps they struggle with delegating or communicating effectively with team members. Navigating these challenges are critical not only for their own success but their team's and their organization's.
Learning Technologies
Measuring the effectiveness of training is a crucial activity to ensure expected return on investment. In the ever-changing business environment, corporate training needs are continually evolving. ROI continues to evolve accordingly.
Companies need to make the most of the employees they have and provide reasons for them to stay. One way is to help employees hone their skills to not only become better at their jobs — and improve business performance — but feel good about their work.
Intellum, the leader in customer education and employee learning software and solutions, today announced that it has acquired UK-based Appitierre, the maker of the Evolve content authoring tool and the learning management system, Bloom.
Measurement and Analytics
Double Gemini, an employee productivity consulting and training company that works with Fortune 500 companies to improve workplace efficiency, has today launched a free Productivity Assessment service.
Emplify, a data-driven employee engagement improvement company, today announced a $15 million investment led by growth equity investor Edison Partners.
Jacksonville, Florida-based Wired2Perform is the latest firm to power its own platform with DNA Behavior International's "behavioral chip."
Outsourcing
Measuring the effectiveness of training is a crucial activity to ensure expected return on investment. In the ever-changing business environment, corporate training needs are continually evolving. ROI continues to evolve accordingly.
Findcourses.com’s parent company EMG - Educations Media Group has partnered with Verdane, a leading Scandinavian investor in tech and e-commerce to expand their market presence.
As a learning leader, you understand the importance of leadership development programs. Do your stakeholders? Download this infographic to build a business case for leadership development at your organization.
Performance Management
There are many reasons time seems to run away from us during work. If you assume the people interrupting you are trying to do their best, every question should be a teaching moment. Effective leaders use every interruption as a teaching moment.
Sales teams that invest in a growth-oriented feedback culture outperform companies that fail to make coaching a priority. It’s critical for sales leaders to not only dedicate time to feedback but also to keep constructive and positive feedback in balance.
NICE announced that its NICE Performance Management solution includes AI-driven analytics to foster employee engagement and improve organizational performance. The new capabilities precisely point supervisors to areas where performance can be improved.
Sales
There’s no denying that some of the most successful sales reps are naturally gifted at what they do. They seem to be born with just the right mix of personality traits to be successful. But for the majority of sales reps, this isn’t the case.
Sales teams that invest in a growth-oriented feedback culture outperform companies that fail to make coaching a priority. It’s critical for sales leaders to not only dedicate time to feedback but also to keep constructive and positive feedback in balance.
SalesFuel® is now offering its new SaaS-based platform, SalesFuel HIRE. SalesFuel HIRE is a digital solution for sales managers, human resources professionals and recruiters that stacks the deck in their favor.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning
We often adopt ideas from people around us — individuals we respect or consider to be members of our cohort, whether political, generational or professional. In adopting those ideas, we don’t always think them through or consider their consequences.
Data from several industry studies unequivocally proves the value of learning and development (L&D). In fact, the time and money that company invest in employee L&D programs and tools more than pays for itself when it comes to business outcomes.
To ensure that the organization is using its time, effort and dollars to their greatest value, it’s critical to build in time for a deliberate pause. In fact, slowing down and allowing yourself time for reflection will allow you to speed up.
Workforce Development
Today’s workforce is more generationally diverse than ever. From highly experienced baby boomers to high school and college graduates of Generation Z, generational diversity means diverse ideas and experiences, making the workplace an exciting place.
Workforce shifts are leaving organizations with a sizeable knowledge and skills gap and the dual challenge of retaining millennial employees and transferring boomer knowledge before they retire.
This week, Guild Education, a mission-based company providing opportunities for America’s workforce through education, received an investment from Stephen Curry of the NBA Golden State Warriors to accelerate Guild’s mission and impact.