5 Downloadable eLearning Project Plan Templates
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
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 […]
4 Ready-to-Use Learning and Development Budget Templates
Training Budget Templates to Identify and Assign Resources How much should the L&D department spend on training? Some companies have years of experience—and data—that help them understand just how much a learning initiative should cost. However, technologies, needs, and learner preferences change. What might have worked just one year ago might not be applicable now, […]
Your Complete Guide to the Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model
Analyzing the results of training programs is extremely difficult. L&D teams are challenged to demonstrate the value that programs deliver to both individual employees and the organization as a whole. Unfortunately, few learning leaders are able to do this. “92% of senior leaders and stakeholders want to see quantifiable results from their training functions. Yet […]
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 […]
LearnOps Leadership Episode with Dr. Sydney Savion: Running L&D Like a Business
Cognota founder and CEO Ryan Austin had an opportunity to speak with Dr. Sydney Savion, Chief Learning Officer of City Block Health and veteran L&D professional, as part of Cognota’s LearnOps Leadership Series. The goal of the series is to speak with seasoned practitioners to better understand the challenges facing L&D teams, and to explore […]
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 Hand Pick the Best Subject Matter Experts for Your Training Project
Love ’em, hate ’em, the importance of subject matter experts (SMEs) and working with them cannot be overstated. Certainly, creating project timelines is important to maximize the SME’s time, but how do you go about sourcing the right-fit SME for a learning project in the first place? Some learning teams “inherit” experts. In some cases, the same […]
