Scaling Learning Programs with Cognota: Unlocking Efficiency and Impact

For L&D professionals, scaling learning programs effectively is a critical challenge. As organizations grow, the demands on training increase, often stretching resources thin. Yet, the goal isn’t just to push out more learning content—it’s to ensure that training initiatives are aligned with business objectives, well-coordinated across teams, and measurable in terms of impact. This is […]

Class Is In Session ???? 3 Takeaways from the LearnOps Academy

Using a Learning Operations platform like Cognota is a great first-step in improving your processes and workflows internally. However, we’ve realized that in this emerging space there is more Cognota could do to provide world-class educational opportunities alongside our platform. Our first cohort of learners is set to begin the program on September 9th and […]

4 Ways Your Team Can Upskill Your Learning Operations

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In today’s fast-paced professional landscape, continuous development and upskilling are crucial for teams to stay competitive and innovative. By ensuring a strong understanding and application of Learning Operations, teams can ensure that their training programs are not only effective but also aligned with organizational goals, delivering measurable results.  We’ve recognized that a strong foundation in […]

Evaluating The Success of Your Training Programs

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In a previous blog post, we explored the reasons why it’s more important than ever to align your training programs to core business objectives.  Business objectives serve as the guiding light for an organization, defining its purpose, direction, and measures of success. Therefore, it’s essential for L&D professionals to carefully align their training initiatives with […]

Aligning Your Training Programs to Core Business Objectives in Cognota

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In today’s fast-paced and competitive business environment, the role of Learning and Development (L&D) teams has never been more critical. One of the key responsibilities of these teams is to ensure that training programs are aligned with the overarching objectives of the organization. This alignment is not merely a matter of convenience; it is a […]

Three Task Bundle Ideas For Your Team

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We’ve been hearing a lot of creative ways that teams have been using the new Task Bundles feature and last month we even covered why using task bundles is important for your team.  Here we wanted to share three ideas for different task bundles you could set up and the task titles and descriptions for […]

3 Tips for Maximizing Your Use of Program Management in Cognota

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Last week Cognota released our new Program Management feature, making it easier for you to associate different projects with broader initiatives, themes and objectives. Based on Customer feedback, we launched this feature to help centralize those projects and better see their progress and key details. We wanted to share some tips and considerations for how […]

3 Reasons To Create Different Request Forms

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Last month, our team shared some benefits of segmenting your Training Intake Form and we got a lot of good feedback on the topic. This month, we want to share three practical reasons why you’d need to leverage multiple request forms. When working with our customers, we often get asked how many request forms is […]

Creating a Customer-Centric Company Culture

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Our VP of Customer Success, Rebecca McDougall, shares ideas on how to bring the customer experience to the forefront of all companies activities, leading to a customer-centric company culture. Our mission at Cognota is to enable more people to learn and grow by powering L&D across the enterprise. This means we have the opportunity to […]

Using Cognota Insights for 2023 Budgeting Conversations

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Our Customer Success team shares how you can leverage your Cognota Intake and Project insights when having budgeting conversations for the upcoming year. This month we launched our new Insights dashboards to provide teams with operational analytics that they can leverage to understand their team performance and efficiency. It’s a timely release, given conversations that […]

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