The Complete Guide to Efficient Training Operations
L&D teams certainly want learners to learn, but could making their training operations more efficient help drive better outcomes? Efficiency in business is certainly nothing new, and increasing efficiency in training operations can improve the experience for everyone. This includes instructional designers and subject matter experts who build the course; employees taking the course to […]
How to Spot Inefficiencies in Your Learning Operations
Learning Operations, or LearnOps, is the idea that outcomes can be improved and the business can run more efficiently when training is streamlined. Just as there is DevOps and RevOps in the engineering and sales organizations, respectively, LearnOps leverages data to capture insights that can inform decisions that can reduce stakeholder friction, speed course development, and […]
Why It’s So Hard to Measure ROI in Training and Development
Any organization wants to know that there is a return on investment (ROI) or else the initiative would be a waste of precious corporate resources. Measuring the ROI in training and development is never easy, and learning leaders continue to seek different ways to evaluate the success of their courses on multiple levels. Indeed, quantifying […]
Evaluating Training Results for Business Success
It’s not just the L&D team that wants to know whether the training programs it developed and delivered were successful—others do as well, including those in the C-Suite. More than simply a post-course exit poll asking learners how they felt about the training, evaluating training results should go deeper, as it is important for organizational […]
5 Common Mistakes Made in Upskilling and Reskilling
While the skills gap has been underway for several years—companies need employees with a very specific skillset and are often unwilling to hire employees without them—skills are becoming redundant more quickly than ever before. While the pandemic fueled rapid, mass digitization of processes in companies across all industries, organizations have been struggling to keep up. […]
How to Disrupt Training Complacency in Your Workforce
You’ve worked so hard to build a learning culture in your organization but sometimes, well, things get quiet. Or boring. There could very well be training complacency in your organization—not necessarily dissatisfaction—but perhaps a feeling that because everything is going well, there’s no need to make a change. Even if everyone is receiving the training […]
How to Tackle Unconscious Incompetence in the Workforce Through Training Solutions
“We don’t know what we don’t know” or “fake it till you make it” are oft-used phrases to describe knowledge that we might need—but don’t currently have—in order to do our jobs. This phenomenon is also known as unconscious incompetence, and it’s hurting organizations in ways you might not even realize. Not possessing critical knowledge […]
6 Ways to Promote Training Intake and Increase Engagement
You may have already rolled out your training intake system, but is anyone using it? The lack of adoption of your new system is only one sign that it’s not working and is most likely due to awareness. Managers and business partners—those who are in a position to make a request—simply haven’t heard of it […]
5 Signs Your Training Intake System Isn’t Working
You and your team worked so hard to roll out a training intake system to streamline and measure the entire scope of requested learning across your organization. But is it working? We’ve compiled 5 signs that can tell you whether your training intake system might not be working as optimally as it can be. Some […]
All Aboard: Onboarding Employees in the New Normal of Remote Work
There’s a lot going on during the onboarding process for a new employee. You need to make sure they feel comfortable and welcome, are learning continuously, and have access to the right tools and technologies. It requires a lot of communication and face to face interaction. But now that entire companies have transitioned to working […]
