Starbucks and ELB Learning on Creating a Flexible, Outcome-Focused L&D Playbook

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On Thursday, February 22, 2024, at 2 pm ET, Cognota hosted a webinar, Elevate Your L&D Strategy: Crafting a Dynamic Playbook for Today’s Challenges to explore L&D and strategic goal alignment, solution-agnostic vendor selection, lifelong learning culture, and learning operations. Cognota founder and CEO Ryan Austin was joined by Ellen Burns-Johnson, Lead Learning Strategist at […]

How Generative AI Can Elevate L&D Workflows and Improve LearnOps

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On Thursday, November 16, 2023, at 12:30 pm ET, Cognota hosted a webinar, AI in the Flow of Work: Elevating LearnOps Workflows with Modern Technology, to explore the intersection of AI, IT, and learning operations – Watch the on-demand recording here! Cognota founder and CEO Ryan Austin was joined by Matthew Ball, VP of Engineering […]

Building Better Partnerships at Cognota

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Creating a great partnership program takes a little more than first meets the eye. It involves nurturing trust and fostering a symbiotic relationship. In many ways, it mirrors the dynamics of a personal relationship—where trust and reliability is crucial. Picture this: You loan your favorite sweater to someone, believing in their commitment to return it […]

20 Must-Attend L&D Conferences and Events 

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In a culture of learning, even leaders should find the resources to continuously up their game. Organizations of all sizes look to their L&D teams to upskill/reskill, digitally transform, and prepare their employees for the rigors and changes ahead. It’s no wonder that learning professionals should seek out the resources to become better in their […]

How to Build a Successful Learning and Development Program

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Effective learning and development programs are essential to the success of any organization. As the landscape of technology and the workforce constantly evolves, learning and development professionals must continuously improve and innovate their programs to meet the changing needs of their organizations and employees. The key elements of a successful learning and development program, including […]

Choosing Learning and Development KPIs for Organizational Impact

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Measuring the impact of your learning and development initiatives is critical—not only for your programs’ continuity and departmental success, but also for the advancement of the organization. While it is generally accepted that organizations of all sizes must constantly be training their employees, understanding what’s working and what’s not can be a challenge.  Organizations want […]

Building a Learning and Development Strategy for Organizational Excellence

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While any department, team, or even individual employee can take it upon themselves to acquire knowledge or develop a skill, it’s important for the organization as a whole to build an effective overall learning and development strategy. In addition to the main goal of developing an organization’s people, a proper L&D strategy provides innumerable benefits […]

5 Downloadable eLearning Project Plan Templates

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Project Plan Templates to Keep eLearning on Track How do you know what everyone is working on, and when it is due? Project management tools and technology have been around for quite some time and should be familiar to even the smallest teams. However, how do you know which one works the best for your […]

How to Calculate and Maximize Training ROI

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Any initiative should have a return on investment—or why go through with the project in the first place? When the performance of people is involved, it’s difficult to know whether the training worked. Leaders would like to measure the business impact, most importantly whether the training was able to bring about improved work performance that […]

The Complete Guide to Efficient Training Operations

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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 […]