When Employees Cry Tears of Joy for Training
As the L&D function is currently being redesigned and redeveloped — especially as there may soon be a Chief Experience Officer, as referenced in a previous blogpost — learning leaders are looking for more ways to engage their internal customers. Moving from nice-to-have to need-to-have, learning leaders can push for even further engagement from employees […]
Welcome, Chief Experience Officer, We’ve Been Expecting You
Employees must be seen as continuous learners, consuming technology as they would on their own. Applicants and even longstanding employees are increasingly viewing a role less as a job and more as an experience. The human resources function is at a crossroads. OK, so it’s been at a crossroads for quite some time, but according […]
Online Universities Get a C+, But You Don’t Have To
How You Can Thrive When Dealing with an Uncertain Market The news last month that the parent company of the University of Phoenix (UoP) was sold for $1.1 billion to buyout fund Apollo Global Management is no surprise: online universities have not provided the bottom-line results they’ve promised individuals and organizations. According to the editors […]
Reverse Engineer Learning Initiatives and Business Outcomes
For learning and development executives, training needs to be tied directly to business outcomes. It is safe to say that the future of the learning function lies not in pushing stale ‘interactive’ tutorials that simply require a box to be checked once they are completed. If learning executives want to prove their value to the […]
When Employees Are Trained to Set Goals, Profitability Results
Employee training is supposed to be all about helping employees get better at doing their jobs. But researchers at Harvard Business School have uncovered a startling fact: a mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company’s business strategies and what’s expected of them in order to help achieve company goals. This is alarming. Apparently, […]
Study: 90 Percent of New Skills Are Lost after Training
According to data collected by HR research and consulting firm Bersin by Deloitte, in 2014, U.S. spending on corporate training grew by 10 percent to over $75 billion and over $140 billion worldwide — the fifth straight year of year-over-year growth. Josh Bersin of Deloitte explains that corporate training is a good indicator of economic […]
The Case for Continuous Learning
Elearning programs usually fail because they deliver the right content at the wrong time: employees do not want to sit through day-long training sessions for seemingly irrelevant material (think Death by PowerPoint). But employees are eager to seek out training when they need it. They vigorously look for the guidelines or How-To’s when they are […]
Why ‘Watch and Learn’ Training Fails
In a recent Harvard Business Review article, ‘Is Your Company Encouraging Employees to Share What They Know?’, author Christopher Myers points out that while organizations invest significant resources in handbooks, protocols, formal mentoring programs, and knowledge management systems to share employees’ experiences for the purpose of creating in-house training programs, the Fortune 500 still lose […]
Can Anyone Become a Trainer?
As companies launch new products, hire new workers, open new offices, or incorporate new technologies — essentially, as companies grow — they find the need to provide training. Good training, that is, training that is current and readily accessible, that doesn’t disrupt the day-to-day business, and that directly impacts employee performance. Off-the-shelf training from a […]
Training Company Closes Seed Round
Houston-based Cognota® Inc. has closed its seed round of $750,000, as it plans to ramp up hiring in 2016. Cognota®, formerly known as In-Acuity, is a knowledge transfer program that largely focuses on oil and gas companies. Cognota® works with companies to design and develop training courses for employees based on knowledge from current and past employees. It’s […]
