Category Archive For "Learning and Development"
Top 12 Tech Tools for Your L&D Toolkit
How comprehensive is your L&D toolkit? If you’re a trainer or educator, you’ll have plenty of tools in your arsenal for delivering effective learning. You’ve built these up over years of experience, from your education, research, communication with other educators, or even created some yourself. But does your L&D toolkit meet diverse needs? Do they …
How to Shape an Ideal Company Culture Using L&D
A company’s culture affects everyone within it. It can generate happier employees and greater business success, but it can also have a negative impact if concerns aren’t raised and addressed. But how can you access employee insights into your organization’s culture? Schoox’s VP of Learning and Brand Success, Matthew Brown, reveals how you can discover …
3 Reasons Businesses Should Focus on Relationship Building
What could better internal relationships help your organization achieve? As many businesses move their communications online, internal relationships need to be actively nurtured in order to thrive. Whether you are friends or colleagues, forming relationships with the click of a button rather than a handshake is common. While this can make you feel connected to …
Measuring the Business Impact of L&D: Collaborate and Align
This is part two of a four-part series on how L&D teams can effectively evaluate, measure, and demonstrate the business impact of their learning and development programs. Read part one here. To measure the impact of learning, you have to collaborate with other departments and align your learning and talent functions with the business strategy. …
How HR and L&D Can Build a Better Culture Together
Human resources and learning and development are often seen as the relationship-building teams of the workforce. But when they collaborate, they can unlock so much potential for improving your workplace’s culture. In our very first interview episode of The Learning Xchange, host Matthew Brown speaks to Ellen Rockwell, Founder and Chief People Officer at JRW …
How the L&D Community Is Successfully Navigating the Pandemic
If you’re a member of the learning and development community, you’ll know that the last six months have been a time of unparalleled disruption. You’re doing more with less. You’re adapting, diversifying, and evolving quickly. Time and time again, you’re showing resilience and drive to overcome new problems with creative solutions. Trainers across the globe …
Measuring the Business Impact of L&D: First, Honor the Reality of Now
This is part one of a four-part series on how L&D teams can effectively evaluate, measure, and demonstrate the business impact of their learning and development programs. To improve how L&D teams measure and demonstrate the business impact of training, they must first honor the reality that not only has it been a challenge to …
6 Tips to Make Corporate Training a Success with Your Employees
Many employees dread corporate training. Whether it’s a day-long breakout session, or training/e-learning that they must complete on their own time, poor quality corporate training can be time-consuming, boring, and valueless. Great corporate training should not be a task your workers dread. Learning is exciting, boosts engagement, and can significantly develop employees’ skills. The key …
3 Ways L&D Teams Can Collect and Communicate More Meaningful Data
Big data used to be a foreign term to many companies. Today, the collection of big data has become so commonplace we almost take it for granted. Now that many companies and their software providers have solved the issue of storing and collecting data, the challenge we face is how to make sense of the …
Skills for Successful Reentry: How to Prepare Your Employees
Change is difficult. We all know that. But, there’s something about change at work that sparks all sorts of fears within us. That’s because our jobs, and our skills, hold the strings to our livelihood. So, when there is a perceived threat to that, it can trigger concerns, anxiety, and stress. This is especially true …
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