14+ Training Request Form Templates to Supercharge Course Development
Learning and development professionals don’t create courses in a vacuum. They scope their work based on the needs of their learners, and oftentimes, those needs enter the L&D department in the form of a request for training. However, as organizations grow more complex, matrixed, and, obviously, remote, the L&D team needs a way to streamline […]
How to Conduct an Optimal Training Needs Analysis
Think about it. In almost any situation, analyzing where you are, where you want to be, and how you plan to bridge that gap is a good thing. For example, if your short cut to avoid heavy traffic leaves you on a back road no GPS recognizes, then taking stock of the situation helps more […]
Cognota Product Tips: How to Launch Your Training Intake Process in < 10 Minutes
Our Customer Success Team shows you how to launch your intake process in under 10 minutes. Whether you’ve already been using a training request or intake form or you’re starting fresh, launching your intake process with Cognota is easy. So easy, that we challenged our Customer Success Team to walk you through how to launch […]
Try This Training Request Process Flow Chart for Efficient Training Intake
Managing training requests efficiently is often far down the list of learning and development priorities. But taking control of the training request process can yield hugely beneficial results in terms of your team’s capacity, productivity, and alignment with organizational performance. To save valuable time for your training team and to make sure you’re prioritizing high […]
Why Change Management Needs Learning and Development
Change management might seem like a vague term used by business schools or consulting firms to warn about the need to prepare for the unknown. Drivers of change can include a multitude of factors, including new competitors, the obsolescence of technology, recent government mandates, and even a pandemic. Most people fear the unknown. Because change […]
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 […]
How to Diagnose Organizational Training Needs Using Your Training Intake Process
In LinkedIn’s 2020 Workplace Learning Report, understanding what skills to build or what courses to develop was listed as a top 10 challenge by 22% of learning professionals. Meanwhile, 21% cited demonstrating the value of learning as an obstacle and 17% said earning executive buy-in was a top challenge. These numbers paint a picture of […]
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 […]
The Road to a Learning Culture Starts with Training Intake
The concept of a learning culture has never been more relevant or more essential than it is right now. When teams are dispersed and are lacking the usual form of in-person interaction, it makes casual on-the-job learning much more difficult. When organizations are challenged with budget freezes and having to navigate through tough times, 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 […]
