Keeping Employees Engaged: How Do You Know If Your Organization Needs Training?
According to LinkedIn’s 2019 Workforce Learning Report, 94 percent of employees say that they would stay at a company longer if it simply invested in helping them learn. Corporate training programs can go a long way towards meeting those expectations and keeping employees engaged. Following a yearly trend, increased budgets and executive support are paving the […]
6 Steps to Destroy the Training Silos Slowing Down Learning & Development Processes
Many companies consider the learning and development function to be a separate, standalone entity. Learning managers and instructional designers are thought to have unique skill sets not shared or even sought out by others across the organization, and managers and employees generally believe that any learning and development processes must originate with the L&D department. This […]
Cognota Feature Update: Custom Best Practices
We’ve rolled out a new version with exciting changes, features, and improvements! Here’s what’s new: Custom Best Practices When you create a template, you can now customize the text for each card with your own best practices. This makes it easy to provide collaborators with context sensitive help and examples for your different use cases. Other Improvements Home page […]
Does L&D Keep Up with the Joneses?
Job descriptions for senior L&D professionals often include a requirement that the applicant is eager to stay current and embrace the most cutting-edge learning technologies. This makes sense, as increasingly sophisticated software has transformed industries by using automation and personalization to increase efficiency and reduce costs. And if L&D professionals create learning for others, it follows that they […]
How Non-Technical Professionals Can Do Instructional Design
Given the growing training needs inside organizations today — the massive amount of content needed to carry out that training — many organizations are facing the challenge of simply not having enough instructional designers or learning and development professionals to build a sufficient number of courses. We are living in a knowledge economy. Forward-thinking organizations are focused on creating a […]
Producing Quality Training Results in ‘Challenging’ Timeframes
One of the biggest resources needed to build learning content is time. To develop one hour of e-learning training that has an intermediate level of interactivity on the part of the learner (in which the training requires the learner to make multiple responses to instructional cues), the ATD reports that between 71 to 130 hours of development time […]
How L&D Can Deal with Market Realities
One of the biggest challenges of delivering courses is obsolescence: as soon as learners in your organization complete the courses you’ve worked so hard to build, the content is no longer relevant and you now find yourself having to start all over again. According to eLearningIndustry, the average shelf life of a business skill has dropped […]
Your Employees Are Your Best Source of Learning Content
While we’ve blogged before about the need to leverage internal talent as subject matter experts (SMEs) to create courses, we always feel the need to reiterate the importance of establishing this internal best practice. Indeed, there may be times when you will need to hire outside talent to assist in the development of learning materials […]
Why It’s Now All About Learning Experience
Deloitte’s 2016 Global Human Capital Trends report boldly advises HR to adopt design thinking, placing the employee experience at the center. With an intended goal of simplifying the complex, design thinking is a way of thinking and working as well as a collection of hands-on methods. Design thinking is empathetic and iterative — two key traits […]
What is Instructional Design Software?
If we can build slideshows in PowerPoint and record videos on YouTube, why do we need separate software to create training? Clearly, such programs like Captivate and Articulate when used in conjunction with your LMS offer more than simply the opportunity to generate attractive, engaging lessons. You can also create quizzes and keep track of […]
