Category Archive For "Business"
Keeping it Cozy: Why Businesses Should Provide Comfortable Digital Spaces for Learning
School is back in session! All around the world, students are flocking to the library to catch some quality study time. And why are they so drawn to the library? — because it’s a comfortable environment that stimulates curiosity, making it easy to focus and learn. Once out in the “real world”, many people lose …
Schoox and StateFoodSafety Announce Partnership
Schoox partners with StateFoodSafety to meet the food safety training and certification needs of its hospitality customers. AUSTIN, Texas, October 18, 2022 — Learning management and talent development software provider Schoox today announced a new partnership with StateFoodSafety, an online food safety education company, to meet the compliance needs of its customers in the restaurant, …
Seeing is Believing- How to Confirm Your Workers Can Perform Their Jobs
Imagine giving a teenager a driving manual and a car and setting them loose. How would you know they learned what they needed to know before getting behind the wheel? The same logic can be applied to employee learning. Delivering learning programs is one thing. It’s another thing to determine if employees gained and retained …
How do we foster a fair and equitable work environment after the overturn of Roe v. Wade
In celebration of Pride month, our People and Culture team hosted a transgender education and advocacy speaker from the Resource Center, a non-profit supporting the LGBTQIA+ community. We shared a safe space to learn and ask questions to become better informed LGBTQIA+ allies and champions. One particular story persisted long past our morning together, and …
Managers as Leaders: Three Critical Components of Good Leadership
Managers and leaders are often referred to interchangeably. But in reality, they are quite different. Managers control and direct people according to the values that have been established. Leaders set new direction or vision for their group. They also act as the spearhead for that new direction. Management without leadership Managers without leadership characteristics serve …
Why LMS Hierarchies Should Be Designed for Today’s Organizational Structures
Today’s organizational structures—and work environments—are vastly different than what they were decades ago. As the importance of talent development increases in today’s workplaces, companies need learning programs that can adapt to the needs of evolving business structures, personnel changes, and complex relationships. To achieve this, companies should focus on the backbone of their learning management …
8 Effective Strategies to Develop (and Keep) Your Employees
How effective are your strategies for developing—and keeping—your employees? Creating an effective strategy to develop and retain your employees can have several benefits beyond just the employee. It can also improve the performance and growth of your business. But first, employers should understand the reasons why employees leave their jobs to begin with. Most commonly, …
Perfection: How L&D Pros Can Let Go of It and Simply Be Themselves
Learning and development professionals could all use a little reminder that perfection is unrealistic and that they can feel comfortable exposing their human side at work. When employees look at learning and development professionals, they may think of us as superhuman in a way. Perhaps not on the level of Superman, but they may assume …
Global Businesses: 4 Learning Solution Must-Haves
If you were one of many global businesses responsible for rolling out a learning solution to anywhere from 50 to 5,000 locations or more, where would you begin? What kind of system would you need to develop each frontline employee according to their individual skills, knowledge, and experience to help them continuously grow? How would …
Sexual Harassment Prevention Training: Ideal Time Is Now for Hotel Staff
With more people receiving COVID vaccinations, business event planning and optimism about the return of business travel has reached its highest point since the pandemic began. Therefore, now is the perfect time for hotel staff members to participate in sexual harassment prevention training. Training can go a long way to ensure guests and employees have …
The Corporate Training Blog
The Schoox Blog is a natural extension of our promise to help people learn more, connect deeper, and perform better. We aim to bring you relevant, engaging, and useful information on the latest news and trends in e-learning, corporate training, and talent development.