Tag Archive For "Learning and Development"
L&D Trainers: How to Offer Solutions That Differ from Your Organization’s
How can L&D trainers give the best training advice possible? What if someone asks for training, but you want to suggest an alternative? As a trusted learning professional, it’s your job to assess the need for training as well as implement it. But how do you give good advice if it’s contrary to what the …
What to Do Before You Measure the Impact of Learning
Whether you are a learning professional or someone who has been tasked with implementing new training within your organization, you’ve probably been asked to measure and articulate the results by your leaders. This is something that should be expected. After all, it’s important to know that any training courses, regimes, etc., are having an overall …
How to Improve Your Hiring, Onboarding, and Training in 2021
How are you approaching hiring, training and onboarding in 2021? Onboarding new hires may look very different today from how they looked this time last year. Many businesses now have a remote workforce meaning that new employees may have to be integrated and trained remotely. With traditional shoulder-to-shoulder training no longer possible for many, how …
It’s 2021 and You Need an LMS Yesterday: 5 Things You Need to Know
Online learning has a number of advantages for businesses challenged with the need to deliver effective, continuous training across their entire workforce. With so many employees forced to work remotely due to the pandemic, many businesses are also feeling pressure to make the shift toward purchasing an LMS. If you are one of those businesses, …
Measuring the Business Impact of L&D: Link Learning Data to KPIs
This is part three 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. In part one of this series, we began by honoring the reality of the pandemic’s impact on L&D and the need for organizations to “reset.” Part two introduced …
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. …
Why Community Is Key to Overcoming Virtual Workplace Challenges
How has the pandemic impacted your workplace? The learning and development community has adapted quickly and efficiently in the face of the pandemic. The shift to remote learning remains one of the most impactful changes that this industry has ever seen. But what side effects have the community experienced as a result of this? In …
