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Friendships between leaders and their constituents have always been a questionable activity in business. While some leaders are able to leverage those relationships as a powerful networking tool, others have allowed them to create toxic cultures.
When an organization pays for individual employees or entire teams to earn an IT certification, it’s important for them to be able to recognize the return on that investment in terms of employee performance and business impact.
When it comes to ROI, it’s best to start small, with one business function; isolate the impact of training on a set of performance indicators; report your business results; and then watch how interested others will be to run a similar ROI calculation.
LeggUP, the groundbreaking professional development platform that delights employees by enabling them to find meaning within their careers, has entered a new phase of growth with the announcement that it has finalized its first round of outside funding.
When successfully deployed, field trainers improve onboarding, help new hires develop their skills and enhance coaching for existing sales reps. That said, many FTs could be better equipped for their roles through the development of enhanced people skills.
Employee engagement is a hot topic, and rightly so. With unemployment rates low, employers are not only finding it difficult to attract quality applicants; they are also looking for innovative ways to engage and retain their current workforce.
Everyone wants to boost his or her professional skill set to become more credible and influential. What is the one skill that will boost your value the most? The answer is simple: The ability to communicate ideas clearly and succinctly.
Fenturi, a creative digital learning agency, and Bray Leino Learning, part of The MISSION Group’s Bray Leino Agency, have joined forces to create an exciting joint venture to bring brilliant, bespoke, and hyper-relevant digital content solutions to an ever
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Compliance
New buzzwords regularly enter the workplace. The phrase “psychological safety” is taking the corporate world by storm. What does it mean in the broader discussion about workplace diversity, and how can organizations achieve it?
The Harvey Weinsteins of the world don’t act the way they do because they are ignorant or don’t know better. Rather, they misbehave because they believe they do not need to abide by the law. Training alone does not solve these problems.
Kanarys, Inc., the first technology platform that fosters collaboration between companies and employees on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace, secured $1.5 million in its first round of funding, which closed November 7, 2019.
Content Development
Fenturi, a creative digital learning agency, and Bray Leino Learning, part of The MISSION Group’s Bray Leino Agency, have joined forces to create an exciting joint venture to bring brilliant, bespoke, and hyper-relevant digital content solutions to an ever
As L&D professionals, we tend to like structure and organization. We love our work and hate rework. We want to use instructional design frameworks but recognize there is often an imbalance between business needs and learning excellence.
Allen Interactions Inc., a thought leader and custom learning solutions company headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, announces today the acquisition of Problem Solutions, an information technology and services company based in Johnstown, PA.
E-Learning
EdCast announced that it is collaborating with Mastercard to deliver resources to enable governments and enterprises to develop the workforce of the future and close skills gaps around the world.
While instructor-led training (ILT) has always been the gold standard, the rise of mobile, online and virtual training has added another dimension to the training continuum. Now, instructors are besieged with new options and platforms.
The online learning libraries market is one of the most innovative segments in corporate learning and development (L&D), bridging the divide between course providers and cutting-edge learning technologies.
IT and Technical Training
When an organization pays for individual employees or entire teams to earn an IT certification, it’s important for them to be able to recognize the return on that investment in terms of employee performance and business impact.
Evolving technologies are critical to the performance and success of a business, but often women are left on the sidelines. Liderança Group is committed to meaningful progress with its newest offering – Women in Tech.
O’Reilly, the premier source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, today announced it has acquired Katacoda, an interactive technology platform that enables hands-on learning.
Leadership
Friendships between leaders and their constituents have always been a questionable activity in business. While some leaders are able to leverage those relationships as a powerful networking tool, others have allowed them to create toxic cultures.
When it comes to ROI, it’s best to start small, with one business function; isolate the impact of training on a set of performance indicators; report your business results; and then watch how interested others will be to run a similar ROI calculation.
New buzzwords regularly enter the workplace. The phrase “psychological safety” is taking the corporate world by storm. What does it mean in the broader discussion about workplace diversity, and how can organizations achieve it?
Learning Technologies
LeggUP, the groundbreaking professional development platform that delights employees by enabling them to find meaning within their careers, has entered a new phase of growth with the announcement that it has finalized its first round of outside funding.
Docebo Inc. (TSX:DCBO) (“Docebo” or the “Company”), the world's leading learning platform powered by artificial intelligence, introduces the latest series of product updates for enterprises looking to make learning their competitive advantage.
Increased perspiration and blood pressure. Nausea. A feeling of panic. Sound familiar? These sensations are some of the symptoms of glossophobia, the fear of public speaking. VR can help learners overcome their anxiety and become skilled public speakers.
Measurement and Analytics
When it comes to ROI, it’s best to start small, with one business function; isolate the impact of training on a set of performance indicators; report your business results; and then watch how interested others will be to run a similar ROI calculation.
Kazoo, the all-in-one Employee Experience Platform, today announced the expansion of the Insights & Reporting capabilities for its Real-time Recognition & Rewards platform.
Questionmark, the leading provider of enterprise-grade assessment software, is expanding its professional services offering to ensure organizations get the most out of their assessments.
Outsourcing
Purchasing a learning management system (LMS) is a big decision and one that few take lightly. Bigger is not always better, as you could end up with a system that brings little to no value for your business … not to mention a lot of wasted time and money.
Think about all of the delays, obstructions and annoyances you encounter each workday. Have you ever stopped to think how many are caused directly or indirectly by skills gaps? The largest threat to information technology is a lack of necessary skills.
KPMG in India, a leading professional services firm and NIIT Limited, a global leader in Skills and Talent Development, have entered into an exclusive partnership to launch the KPMG NIIT Finance Academy in India.
Performance Management
Employee engagement is a hot topic, and rightly so. With unemployment rates low, employers are not only finding it difficult to attract quality applicants; they are also looking for innovative ways to engage and retain their current workforce.
Kazoo, the all-in-one Employee Experience Platform, today announced the expansion of the Insights & Reporting capabilities for its Real-time Recognition & Rewards platform.
A resignation is an opportunity to heighten your connection with your team. It doesn’t matter if you believe it is a loss; it is an opportunity to see and hear this person and to reflect on changes that would make the team better.
Sales
When successfully deployed, field trainers improve onboarding, help new hires develop their skills and enhance coaching for existing sales reps. That said, many FTs could be better equipped for their roles through the development of enhanced people skills.
Your customer service representatives are the face and voice of your organization. Customer service reps should meet every caller with excitement and a genuine desire to help in order to make an impactful impression on the customer.
The last 20 years have been good for U.S. businesses. This environment, however, is changing. Business leaders are taking note of this. As a result, sales leaders must be prepared to face pricing pressure with better negotiation skills.
Strategy, Alignment and Planning
“We need training on….” Does this sound familiar? Whether the request is submitted via email, in a telephone conversation or even in passing, training requests come in all shapes and forms — often without any evidence of the rationale behind them.
For any transformation to succeed, leaders need to have deep conviction and clarity on four questions that can make or break their journey of reinvention. By honestly answering these four questions, you can transform your training organization.
Follow these three tips to create an L&D plan that will ensure training initiatives are strategically aligned to the needs of the business and, as a result, will have a lasting organizational impact.
Workforce Development
The convergence of new regulations and increasing economic pressures are compelling many organizations toward the conclusion that continuing to manage all — or even the majority — of HR and L&D processes manually is no longer possible.
Wherever your organization is on its digital journey, there are ways to include crowdsourcing in your development toolkit — whether it’s enabling employees to generate development ideas or increasing post-learning application and retention.
Guild Education, a B Corporation focused on creating opportunity for America’s workforce through education, announced today the close of its $157 million Series D financing round led by General Catalyst.