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Most companies will do everything in their power to protect their employees from physical harm by offering CPR classes, emergency evacuation drills, healthy food options and gym passes — all worthwhile endeavors.
Leading agile teams requires behaviors that differ from the practices associated with traditional leadership. Learning leaders making this transition are likely to find it necessary to exhibit new behaviors.
Aligning your people strategy with your growth strategy means putting your people at the heart of your business and will help you achieve the success you’re looking for.
Inkling, a mobile learning enablement platform for frontline employees, announced that Little Caesars® Pizza will leverage Inkling to train workers and provide them easy access to the company's reference materials via internet-connected tablets.
ExecVision, the only conversation intelligence platform purpose-built for driving behavior change, today unveiled Coaching Plans, enabling sales managers and leaders to have a single system of accountability for changing rep behavior.
Traditional ideas about sustainment are often incomplete. They miss the crucial idea that true sustainment means constant improvement. Without regular improvement, sales professionals stand still while the competition moves forward.
17 Jul 20191:00 pm ET
National Safety Month is a great opportunity for safety professionals to think beyond compliance-based safety training and to implement new methods of increasing operational learning that will lead to a safer and more successful workplace.
What’s the point in training your staff on outdated concepts? It’s just a waste of everyone’s time. Let’s take a look at some straightforward ways for you to ensure that your internal training content is always as fresh as possible.
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Compliance
Most companies will do everything in their power to protect their employees from physical harm by offering CPR classes, emergency evacuation drills, healthy food options and gym passes — all worthwhile endeavors.
National Safety Month is a great opportunity for safety professionals to think beyond compliance-based safety training and to implement new methods of increasing operational learning that will lead to a safer and more successful workplace.
In this episode of The Business of Learning, safety training experts Bridgette Wilder (City of Memphis) and Fred Stawitz share their tips on making safety training engaging, the role of training in risk management and mitigation, and emerging technologies.
Content Development
Think about smartphones, tablets and apps. Their intuitive interface enables us to navigate them with ease. As instructional designers, we should also use these principles when creating e-learning modules — or any digital assets for our learners.
For organizations across industries, workplace safety is more crucial than ever. However, many companies still approach compliance with a “check-the-box” attitude and use generic, trite training that is ineffective.
Training Industry today announced its 2019 Readership and Editors’ Awards at the Training Industry Conference & Expo in Raleigh, NC.
E-Learning
Think about smartphones, tablets and apps. Their intuitive interface enables us to navigate them with ease. As instructional designers, we should also use these principles when creating e-learning modules — or any digital assets for our learners.
What’s the point in training your staff on outdated concepts? It’s just a waste of everyone’s time. Let’s take a look at some straightforward ways for you to ensure that your internal training content is always as fresh as possible.
Verztec Consulting, a leading provider of end-to-end Digital Learning solutions and Professional Language Translation has partnered with Skillsoft to provide companies in the South East Asia Region with a wider spectrum of corporate learning content.
IT and Technical Training
N2Growth, a global leader in human and organizational performance, announced the release of its Digital Clarity assessment tool, which can assess an organization, business unit, team or individual contributor with respect to their digital capabilities.
Bitwise Industries (www.bitwiseindustries.com) has raised $27M as part of its Series A financing led by Kapor Capital and New Voices Fund. This represents one of the largest Series A ever raised by a Latinx female-led company.
Learning Tree International and Columbus Technologies and Services are pleased to announce a new corporate partnership, further enabling a broad Public Sector audience to realize the benefits of Modern Learning Solutions.
Leadership
Leading agile teams requires behaviors that differ from the practices associated with traditional leadership. Learning leaders making this transition are likely to find it necessary to exhibit new behaviors.
Partners In Leadership, LLC, the firm that guides clients in defining Key Results™, shaping Cultural Beliefs® and solving Accountability Gaps, announces the release of Propeller: Accelerating Change by Getting Accountability Right.
BetterUp, the company that pioneered mobile coaching to help all workers live their lives with optimal clarity, purpose and passion, is convening a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Advisory Board of leading business, workforce and human resource (HR) experts.
Learning Technologies
Inkling, a mobile learning enablement platform for frontline employees, announced that Little Caesars® Pizza will leverage Inkling to train workers and provide them easy access to the company's reference materials via internet-connected tablets.
Gameffective introduced Gameffective for Contact Centers, a business solution designed to increase revenue, reduce operational costs and meet the strategic needs of contact centers focused on sales, customer service, technical support, and debt collection.
This five-step learning strategy evaluation infographic will help you determine the challenges your organization is facing and then develop a plan of action for achieving your goals.
Measurement and Analytics
The reality is that data persuades better than anything else. It can show the decision-makers at your company that training is more than just a compliance check; it’s an effective and valid part of business strategy.
N2Growth, a global leader in human and organizational performance, announced the release of its Digital Clarity assessment tool, which can assess an organization, business unit, team or individual contributor with respect to their digital capabilities.
Training Industry today announced its 2019 Readership and Editors’ Awards at the Training Industry Conference & Expo in Raleigh, NC.
Outsourcing
To keep up in a dynamic, competitive world, companies from a range of industries have started investing in HR performance systems that bring performance management to the platform employees are most comfortable with: their mobile devices.
Training a diverse network of stakeholders to represent the company’s brand is a high priority for most organizations. Replacing your LMS with a next-generation system will help you better support and address the needs of your extended enterprise.
Training Industry today announced its 2019 Readership and Editors’ Awards at the Training Industry Conference & Expo in Raleigh, NC.
Performance Management
Eightfold, the creator of the first Talent Intelligence Platform, today announced Eightfold RPA Talent Connect to integrate any existing talent management system with the Eightfold Talent Intelligence Platform.
It is important to ensure that as people work toward goals, they realize that there is a difference between expertise and opinion. Keep in mind the words of John F. Kennedy: “Too often, we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
Our mindsets are the lenses that shape how we see and interpret the world, which influences the quality and effectiveness of our cognitive processing, decision-making and behaviors, but few people are able to identify specific mindsets that drive success.
Sales
ExecVision, the only conversation intelligence platform purpose-built for driving behavior change, today unveiled Coaching Plans, enabling sales managers and leaders to have a single system of accountability for changing rep behavior.
Traditional ideas about sustainment are often incomplete. They miss the crucial idea that true sustainment means constant improvement. Without regular improvement, sales professionals stand still while the competition moves forward.
Showpad, the leading sales enablement solution, has secured $70 million in Series D funding, a combination of debt and equity, led by Dawn Capital and Insight Partners.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning
Aligning your people strategy with your growth strategy means putting your people at the heart of your business and will help you achieve the success you’re looking for.
In the digital age, both employees and customers are more aware and connected and an integral part of the value chain. It is important for L&D to be up to date with market trends and disruptors to the business.
Creativity is an essential but underdeveloped competency in today’s workplace. Yet, we often hear people say, “I’m not creative.” With a workforce swallowed by self-doubt, how can organizations expect employees to develop a creative competency?
Workforce Development
Instead of looking at different generations and deciding on a mentoring approach based on stereotypes, here are some universal ideas on how to make mentoring more approachable and accessible to everyone in your workforce.
America’s Warrior Partnership announced the launch of its Corporate Veteran Initiative (CVI), a program that provides businesses with insights, guidance and training to improve recruitment and retention of military veterans in the workforce.
JFF, a national nonprofit, announced the launch of an ambitious framework to define a new category of employers adopting talent strategies that make a positive impact on workers who are at risk of being displaced by artificial intelligence and automation.