How to Measure L&D ROI and Show Impact to Leadership

Measuring L&D ROI comes down to connecting three things: what your team delivered, what it cost, and what changed in the business as a result. Most L&D teams struggle with the third part — not because the data doesn’t exist, but because the connection between learning activity and business outcome was never defined before the […]

10 Best Corporate Training Solutions in 2026

Rapid technological innovation, widening skill gaps, labor shortages, and changing market dynamics are pushing organizations to invest heavily in employee learning and development. But many enterprise L&D teams struggle to deliver continuous training that meets the growing demand. Courses take months to create. Compliance training is a nightmare. Content libraries sit unused. Employees complete courses […]

L&D Capacity Planning for Enterprise: Tools, Best Practices & Implementation

Enterprise L&D teams struggle to deliver strategic training initiatives because they lack visibility into their actual capacity. This makes it challenging to see who’s working on what, how many hours are allocated, or when teams are at capacity. When business stakeholders request new training programs, L&D managers can’t assess feasibility. This forces them to either: […]

Cognota Raises $5.75M Series B to Lead Agentic Operations for Enterprise Learning

Toronto, Canada — [March 10, 2026] — Cognota, the market leader in Learning Operations (LearnOps®) software, today announced a US$5.75M Series B financing led by Blossom Street Ventures, with support  from Comerica Bank and existing investors. The funding will accelerate Cognota’s development of agents across its platform with an intelligence layer designed to govern how […]

Introducing Flexible Dashboards: Enterprise-Grade Operational Visibility for LearnOps

As learning and talent teams scale, operational complexity scales with them. There is more demand to manage. More stakeholders to align. More scrutiny from leadership. And increasing pressure to deliver predictably. Visibility can’t be static. It can’t live in exported spreadsheets. And it can’t require rebuilding reports outside the system of record. Today, we’re introducing […]

LearnOps and Training Management Systems: Powering L&D in 2026

LearnOps and training management systems are emerging as the two gears, one engine that will define how high‑performing L&D teams operate in 2026, especially as they’re asked to do more with less while proving measurable impact to the business. Here’s a recap from our recent webinar. You can check out the full recording here.  Working […]

Turning L&D Chaos into Strategic Impact with LearnOps

In a recent Training Magazine Network webinar, learning leader Debbie Richards laid out a practical roadmap to shift from an overwhelmed order-taking function into a strategic business engine using data, operations, and AI-enabled LearnOps practices. Why L&D Needs Data-Driven Operations Now Most L&D teams are doing more with less in chaotic conditions: Reactive requests, siloed […]

Building an L&D Workflow: Steps, Best Practices & Tools for Success

Enterprise L&D teams manage hundreds of training requests each year. Requests come in through email, Slack, or hallway conversations. And project information lives across LMS platforms, project management tools, and spreadsheets. This scattered approach makes strategic execution difficult for L&D departments. Teams can’t compare requests objectively, so they prioritize whoever makes the most urgent case. […]

Best of 2025 LearnOps Webinars

A curated, on-demand path for L&D and Talent leaders to modernize budgets, operations, and strategy using LearnOps. This webinar collection brings together leading CLOs, industry experts, and Cognota partners to help you transform how your team manages learning, budgets, and strategy. Explore three themed tracks designed to help you prove impact, align with the business, […]

5 Best L&D Platforms for Analytics and Reporting in 2026

Enterprise L&D teams manage hundreds of training requests, dozens of active projects, and limited team capacity. Without clear analytics, you’re flying blind. The problem isn’t a lack of data. Most teams have a lot of data in their learning management system, project management tools, and spreadsheets. The problem is that this data lives in separate […]

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April 22, 2019

The Specific Is Terrific: How To Maximize the Value of Corporate Training

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April 10, 2019

New Funding to Fuel Growth of Our Learning Design System

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April 3, 2019

Overwhelmed, Distracted, Impatient: What’s an L&D Department to Do About the Modern Learner?

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March 29, 2019

Building Culture Across Borders the Cognota Way

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March 22, 2019

Keeping Employees Engaged: How Do You Know If Your Organization Needs Training?

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March 8, 2019

Happy #IWD2019! What #BalanceforBetter means to the Cognota team

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March 7, 2019

6 Steps to Destroy the Training Silos Slowing Down Learning & Development Processes

Does L&D Keep Up with the Joneses?

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February 9, 2019

Does L&D Keep Up with the Joneses?

How Non-Technical Professionals Can Do Instructional Design

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January 12, 2019

How Non-Technical Professionals Can Do Instructional Design

Producing Quality Training Results in 'Challenging' Timeframes

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January 4, 2019

Producing Quality Training Results in ‘Challenging’ Timeframes

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December 8, 2018

How L&D Can Deal with Market Realities

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December 1, 2018

Your Employees Are Your Best Source of Learning Content

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November 19, 2018

Why It’s Now All About Learning Experience

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November 10, 2018

What is Instructional Design Software?

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October 20, 2018

eLearning Industry: How to Incentivize Subject Matter Experts

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October 13, 2018

The Math Behind Agile Learning Design

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October 6, 2018

Why Project Management Should Be a Natural Part of a Learning Design System

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September 28, 2018

Is Continuous Improvement Possible in Learning Design?

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August 31, 2018

Reducing the Pain of Creating and Delivering ‘Customized’ Learning

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February 20, 2017

Why Writing Learning Objectives Are Critical to Instructional Design

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February 20, 2017

Why You Need to Use Rapid Prototyping in Instructional Design

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February 20, 2017

Cognota and IACET Co-Hosted Design Thinking and Learning Advancements Webinar

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February 13, 2017

Is Instructional Design Dead?

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February 13, 2017

5 Ways to Leverage Stakeholders in the Instructional Design Process

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February 9, 2017

The Importance of a Learning Blueprint Design

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February 7, 2017

3 Secrets to Successful Instructional Design

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February 2, 2017

Tips on How to Ramp SMEs in the Instructional Design Process

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January 31, 2017

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Instructional Designers

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January 23, 2017

CLO Series: Dr. Martha Soehren of Comcast

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November 14, 2016

Align Subject Matter Experts with Business Needs for Better Learning

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November 7, 2016

Don’t Just Engage Subject Matter Experts — Win Them Over

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November 4, 2016

Cognota® wins Elliott Masie’s Learning Barracuda Bowl in Orlando, Florida

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October 31, 2016

CLO Series: Dr. Marie Cini of University of Maryland University College

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October 24, 2016

5 Tips for Instructional Designers When Working with Subject Matter Experts

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October 18, 2016

CLO Series: Bror Saxberg of Kaplan

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October 10, 2016

Can a Learning Experience Design System Address the Skills Gap?

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October 4, 2016

CLO Series: Nick Howe of Area9 Learning

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September 26, 2016

Overcoming the Challenges of Working with Subject Matter Experts

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September 19, 2016

The Importance of Testing in Instructional Design

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September 12, 2016

What Pokémon GO Can Teach Learning and Development Professionals

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September 6, 2016

How Long Does It Take Instructional Designers to Create One Hour of Learning?

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August 29, 2016

Instructional Design for Non-Instructional Designers

Can You Really Speed Up Instructional Design?

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August 22, 2016

Are You Using the Right KPIs for Your Learning Initiatives?

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August 15, 2016

The UX of Learning

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August 8, 2016

Crushing the ‘Forgetting Curve’

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August 1, 2016

A Magazine Evolves as a Profession Evolves

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July 11, 2016

Can You Teach Employees to Think Critically?

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July 6, 2016

More Bad News for For-Profit Colleges

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June 27, 2016

The Art of Doing Less

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June 20, 2016

Easing the Pain of Course Design

Can You Really Speed Up Instructional Design?

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June 13, 2016

Can You Really Speed Up Instructional Design?

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June 6, 2016

L&D Will Be Responsible for the Survival of Organizations

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May 27, 2016

The Softer Side of Goldman Sachs

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May 20, 2016

STUDY: High Performers Share Knowledge

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May 11, 2016

Pencils Down: Why Testing Still Matters

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May 5, 2016

People Still Want to Learn from Others

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April 29, 2016

Microlearning Is the (Not So) New Buzzword

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April 27, 2016

Don’t Write off Instructor-Led Training Just Yet

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April 20, 2016

Gamification is Dead. Long Live Gamification.

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April 15, 2016

“I recorded a video. It’s on SharePoint. Are we done?”

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April 13, 2016

How Learning Initiatives Lower Recruiting Costs

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April 8, 2016

L&D Needs to Transform Itself First Before Transforming Others

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April 6, 2016

Surprise! Millennials Are Not Lazy

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April 1, 2016

Why Learning Initiatives Drive Employer Branding

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March 28, 2016

Building a Culture of Curiosity

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March 23, 2016

Dealing with WIIFM

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March 18, 2016

Have Your Experts Tell Stories People Want to Hear

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March 15, 2016

When Employees Cry Tears of Joy for Training

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March 11, 2016

Welcome, Chief Experience Officer, We’ve Been Expecting You

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March 8, 2016

Online Universities Get a C+, But You Don’t Have To

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March 4, 2016

Reverse Engineer Learning Initiatives and Business Outcomes

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February 29, 2016

When Employees Are Trained to Set Goals, Profitability Results

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February 22, 2016

Study: 90 Percent of New Skills Are Lost after Training

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February 16, 2016

The Case for Continuous Learning

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February 8, 2016

Why ‘Watch and Learn’ Training Fails

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January 26, 2016

Can Anyone Become a Trainer?

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January 21, 2016

Training Company Closes Seed Round